Inclusive university – a set of tools dedicated to HEI for better respond to disabled student’s needs Erasmus Project

Project Title

Inclusive university – a set of tools dedicated to HEI for better respond to disabled student’s needs

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Disabilities – special needs; Inclusion – equity; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Inclusive university – a set of tools dedicated to HEI for better respond to disabled student’s needs project will be implemented by international consortium of partners – HEI and NGO in the period between 01.09.2019 – 30.09.2021.
the process of social cognition helps to select, interpret, remember and use information in order to make judgment and decisions on social world (Aronso, Wilson, Akert 1997). Such activity bases on simplification. Very often it deforms the image as it enables to create wrong opinions on other people, categorizing them and even creates stereotypes and prejudices. According to researches on stereotypical approach to disabled people, disabled person is: weak, withdrawn, frightened, failure-liable, unsuccessful, help and support needed rather than being treated like a partner. Due to the fact those stereotypes emphasize wrong, inadequate specifics of disabled people, they influence interpersonal reactions and social contacts. Our project’s main aim is to break this approach and build the image of disabled person as an equal member of university society. Our proposition is to launch “Inclusive university” project, which main aim is to contribute to improve the situation and functioning of students with disabilities at University. Taking into consideration year-by-year increasing number of disabled students at European Universities, we would like to develop a set of tools dedicated to HEI for better respond to special needs of disabled students.
Goals of the project are to:
-Equip didactics, academic teachers with the knowledge on how to organize and coordinate education processes for students with special needs and disabilities, with the use of modern technologies
-Support academics on how to diagnose and develop educational programmes responding to needs of disabled students
-Tailor education strategies and methods to different types of disabilities: blindness, deafness, mental disorders, autism, socially awkward, other difficulties
-Raise awareness of university community (didactics, administratives and students) on the presence of disabled students at the university
-Increase the quality of studying and feeling of self-confidence of students with disabilities
-Increase the quality of teaching by developing new approaches in teaching programmes including the concept of universal design
During implementation of our project 3 main intellectual outputs will be developed:
Output 1 – Publication dedicated to academics on how to teach disabled students with different disabilities.
Output 2 – Training programme – raising awareness of university staff (didactic and administrative) and students on the presence of disabled students at the university
Output 3 – Training course for students – universal design
The consortium consist of HEI from Poland, Slovenia and Cyprus and NGO from Poland. All partners are experienced in the field of international cooperation on innovative products.
Impact of the project (in short):
– Academics will have opportunity to learn how to incorporate new methods to their work and increase its quality and have opportunity to learn how to make their everyday classes more interesting and understandable for disabled students
– Administrative staff will have opportunity to learn how to professionally deal with students with disabilities and raise their awareness about needs of students with disabilities
– Students will be equipped with knowledge and competences enabling them to be more open and helpful in cooperating with their peers that have special needs. The project and its outputs will contribute to increase the openness and feeling of solidarity.
– Universities will be more open, inclusive and friendly places for students with disabilties

Project Website

http://wspaerasmus.wixsite.com/inclusiveuniversity

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 135565 Eur

Project Coordinator

Wyzsza Szkola Przedsiebiorczosci i Administracji w Lublinie & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Fundacja Likejon
• FREDERICK UNIVERSITY
• Mednarodna fakulteta za družbene in poslovne študije