A joint-short term staff training event aimed at strengthening the cooperation among the professionals, educators,  social workers and volunteers who compose the project team of Collaborative Economy without Barriers. It was managed as a concrete collaborative workshop for the exchange of   practical tools, activities and useful tips among the participants about how to structure the project local activities and the project method more in general. So the participants cooperated in the actual planning of how to manage the following activities with adult learners with disability:  how to structure learning sessions about communication; h ow to develop self-awareness; h ow to manage art production workshops; h ow to instruct the learners in writing a profile in collaborative economy platforms and how to manage it; how to prevent r isks about the use of online platforms; how to support the users to prevent dangers; h ow to organize the collaborative economy ev...

Disability can be viewed in different ways, each with different emancipation potentials for people with disabilities. In Portuguese society, disability has been reduced to the in-capacities of the bodies and to a fatalistic narrative of personal tragedy. According to this understanding model, therestrictionsandobstaclesexperiencedbypeoplewithdisabilitiesresultdirectlyfromtheirsupposedfunctionallimitations. Suchconceptionshavevalidatedtheconstructionoftheimageofpeoplewithdisabilities as passive and dependent subjects, the silencing of their voices and fed oppressive and excluding social policies of people with disabilities in Portugal. This essay aims to open a reflection on this reality, in order to contribute to a cultural and socio-political questioning of the phenomena of minorization, oppression, poverty and social exclusion experienced by people with disabilities in Portuguese society and for the construction of new emancipatory paths. The full inclusion of citizens with disab...