Cooperating for Open access to Museums – towards a widEr INclusion
According to the Regional policy of the European Union, territorial cohesion should contribute to enabling equal opportunities without excluding any vulnerable group of people and cultural heritage inputs to the experiences and to the identity of each territory. 
The Cooperating for Open access to Museums – towards a widEr INclusion - COME-IN! project intends to valorize the CE cultural heritage, increasing the capacities of small and medium size museums, by making them accessible to a wider public of people with different kinds of disabilities. In fact, museums encounter difficulties in adapting to the “for all” concept, because of a lack of organizational knowledge and of limited financial resources, both for investments and adequate promotion. Hence, COME-IN! will coordinate a multi-faceted network of Museums, Disability associations, Academic representatives, Training institutions and Policy makers, that will jointly define an innovative strategic approach on how to promote the accessibility to museums, in order to make them more attractive for the public: transnational high level standards will be discussed and established and know-how transfer structured. The COME-IN! guidelines for organizing an accessible collection/exhibition and the Training Handbook for museum operators will be elaborated and this approach tested along its network. Pilot actions and training to operators will be performed and their results in terms of increased visibility studied. Based on the gained experience, an innovative promotional tool, the COME-IN! label for awarding museums complying with its accessibility standards, will be developed and initially conferred to the Museums of the network. The COME-IN! label will be promoted at transnational, national and local level, in CE and beyond,thus guaranteeing  its sustainability and transferability during its implementation as well as after its conclusion.