The problems of the disabled are solved depending on the level of social awareness and richness of a municipality.

Due to the civilisation progress and the development of motorization, a number of people with disabilities is still growing. It is believed that people directly and permanently disabled constitute 10% of the society. Take for example EU member states where 37 million citizens suffer from disabilities. In a lifetime everybody may become disabled in an accident (e.g. breaking a leg) which occurs either in an advanced age or as physical and intellectual fitness decreases.

The problem of disability affects not only the disabled but also their families, friends and the colleagues. Consequently, the costs of solving this problem are incurred by the society. It is disturbing that in the contemporary world a numerous part of our society fails to have an equal access to education, work, culture, and is, additionally, discriminated due to their disability. Therefore, the Council of Europe announced the year 2003 the European Year of People with Disabilities.

The City of Gdynia, being consistent in the realization of its disabled policy "Gdynia Without Barriers", put forward the idea of SOCIAL CAMPAIGN "WITHOUT LIMITS" at the 34^th Meeting of Union of the Baltic Cities Executive Board in Viljandi, Estonia. The campaign aims at exchanging experiences and cooperation among countries located in the BSR to effectively solve problems of the disabled, as well as to eliminate social and mental barriers.

The campaign was inaugurated by the UBC conference, which took place in Gdynia on 27-28 September 2002. In the light of the prior survey on the situation of the disabled conducted in the member cities, the conference presented the Swedish experience of disability policy planning on the local level known as Agenda 22, an official view of the EU on the disabled, as well as examples of specific projects realized by a non-governmental sector, e.g. Polish Association of the Friends of "Integration" and Polish Association of People with Mental Handicap, Gdynia branch. Among projects which met with great interest were psychological ones: Cover and Harmony drawn up by J. Szulkowska, Ph. D. (Gdynia, Poland) which presented ways of coming out of the disability, or the project showing the place of people with disabilities in e-society, characterised by K. Kikkas, Ph. D. (Tallinn, Estonia).

During the conference Gdynia as the first Polish municipality accepted the document Agenda 22 - Disability Policy Planning Instructions for Local Authorities which was prepared by The Swedish Co-operative Body of Organisations of Disabled People.

Agenda 22, written on the basis of 22 Standard Rules of UN General Assembly, is a guide for self-governments which facilitates local disability policy planning.