www.studyabroadwithoutlimits.eu
This is a website for European students with a disability that want to study abroad. Currently the involved countries are: Austria, Belgium (Flanders), Ireland, The Netherlands and Sweden. The website was built with a grant from the SOCRATES – Accompanying Measures Program of the European Union (EU). The aim is to improve the participation of students with disabilities in exchange programmes in Higher Education. The project management of the website is performed by ‘handicap + studie’ www.handicap-studie.nl
An organisation based in the Netherlands. The centre aim is to stimulate the participation of students with disabilities in higher education. The mission of ‘handicap + studie’ is to allow students with a handicap to successfully participate in the higher education of their choice. It aims to maintain a direct contact with students and groups of students with restrictions. The organisation seeks to identify what is important for the students and translates their needs and questions into opportunities in higher education by striving for a mentality change. It develops instruments for both students and educational institutions to proactively resolve existing problems, and therefore it is also a service and an information point for educational institutions.
The Slovenian Association of Disabled Student is a non-profit & non-government organisation which provides services and support for disabled university students with various types of disabilities and long term diseases. It aims to support students regardless of the type or degree of the disability. Students can study full or part time and be undergraduate or postgraduate students. The roots of the organisation go as far back as 1996 and it current structure finalised in 2006. Other aims of the association are to promote the interests/needs of disabled university students, to help improve educational and employment opportunities and to encourage and enable them to live as full and independent life.
Skill is a UK independent national charity (the National Bureau for Students with Disabilities), it aims is to promote opportunities for young people and adults with any kind of impairment in post-16 education, training and employment. It started in 1974 with the believe education is the key that could lead many disabled people to a fulfilling and independent life. Some of the activities include providing a free information and advice service, informing and influencing key policy makers, promoting best practice, organising conferences and seminars, producing relevant informational material and providing consultancy & training for staff members in colleges, universities and other organisations.
AHEAD (based in Ireland) is the Association for Higher Education Access and Disability. It is an independent non-profit organisation working to promote full access to and participation in further and higher education for students with disabilities. Other aim is to enhance their employment prospects on graduation. The organisation provides information to students and graduates with disabilities, teachers, guidance counsellors and parents on disability issues in education. AHEAD also coordinates the LINK an Erasmus funded network of organisations promoting the inclusion of students and graduates with disabilities within the European Union (EU).
www.ahead.ie/europeannetwork_link.php
LINK is a European (Erasmus funded) network of organisations advocating the full inclusion of students with disabilities in further and higher education and training. The network is currently made up of partner organisations from six EU countries (Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Sweden and the UK); all of which share the objective of promoting full access to, and participation in, further and higher education for students with disabilities. Another aim is to promote the use of inclusive education practices across Europe and to influence EU policy makers on issues relating to students with disabilities by sharing knowledge and experience and developing recommendations based on this shared knowledge and experience.
The European Agency for Development in Special Needs Education is an independent and self-governing organisation with offices in Denmark and Belgium established by EU (European Union as well as Iceland, Norway and Switzerland) countries to act as their platform for collaboration regarding the development of provision for learners with special educational needs. The agency is maintained by the Ministries of Education in the participating countries and receives support by the EU institutions under the EU Lifelong Learning Programme.
www.szs.uni-karlsruhe.de/english
Study Centre for the Visually Impaired Students (SZS) is a scientific institution of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Emerging from the project "Informatics for the Blind Studies for Visually impaired People in Informatics and Economic Engineering" supported by the German Ministry of Education and Research in Bonn and by the Ministry of Science and Research of the Land Baden-Württemberg (1987-1993). Initially this pilot project was intended to open new study and job possibilities to the visually impaired which until then have been inaccessible to them. The pilot project proved to be a great success it was transformed into a permanent institution as the Study Centre for Blind and Partially Sighted Students.
www.independentliving.org/studyworkabroad
Study and Work Abroad for All (2003-2005), a project funded by the Swedish Inheritance Fund (Allmänna Arvsfonden) is an online facility of the Independent Living Institute (ILI, Sweden). The website has information about more than 1100 universities and other organisations accepting individuals with disabilities as students and trainees, in over 60 countries. The resource hold information about university studies, traineeships and volunteer work for people with disabilities in Europe, North America and other parts of the world. Currently the catalogue includes 266 disability organisations that can give local advice, 113 places to volunteer, along with disability information from 991 universities, in 62 countries.
