On July 3rd and 4th, 2023, the COST Action a-STEP held its first international training school in Elbasan, Albania. The training had the theme “Building Bridges with Participatory Research”, which focused on doing participatory research with people with disabilities, mainly people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and Intellectual Disability (ID), through the use of Assistive Technologies (AT). GameIN project (2022.07939.PTDC) was represented in this school by two participants and research fellows.