I have set up programs and partnerships.

To support the set-up of favourable framework conditions, the Commission will: · take into account the objectives and priorities of the Partnership as defined in the Plan in the revision of relevant EU legislation such as on medical devices[19] and a proposal for a European Accessibility Act[20]; · accelerate standards development under the standardisation mandates on ICT, built environment and mainstreaming accessibility following "design for all" concepts and propose mandates[21] in eHealth and independent living.

The partnership was organised into three main dimensions: political and security dialogue; economic and financial partnership; social, cultural and human partnership.

For example, in partnership with the Heart and Stroke Foundation, CIHR recently funded initiatives in the area of the built environment and obesity, including studies focused on the features of the built environment in residential neighbourhoods that influence excess weight in a group of children at risk for obesity, and a longitudinal study of environmental determinants of overweight among children.

15. Welcomes the inclusion in the Commission action plan of measures to improve accessibility to information technologies and the built environment, as well as the commitment to promote the principle of 'design for all' in Community policies in the built environment; considers, nevertheless, that, in order to obtain tangible results, a more ambitious strategy must be developed; calls for the recommendations of the EU expert report on "Accessibility for All" to be implemented without delay, including the revision of Construction Products Directive to require mandatory accessibility standards; thereby calls for EU measures to be accompanied together with an appropriate legislative framework laying down common rules on accessibility to good ...[+++]s, services and infrastructures and accompanied by incentives for business and the promotion of public/private partnerships;

We spoke to the cap on post-secondary monies for status Indian and Inuit students, and our ongoing concern about the capital infrastructure of our colleges and institutes, which were built with the federal Technical and Vocational Training Assistance Act in the early 1960s, so they are institutions paid for by federal funding and most of that funding, under the partnership of the provinces, is falling apart.