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Accessibility in International Exchange -Resource or Challenge to Higher Education? Paula Pietilä , Disability Coordina

Accessibility in International Exchange -Resource or Challenge to Higher Education? Paula Pietilä , Disability Coordinator, University of Turku Sini Piippo, Senior Programme Adviser, CIMO July 23, 2013 Eighth International Conference on Higher Education and Disability . Backround.

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Accessibility in International Exchange -Resource or Challenge to Higher Education? Paula Pietilä , Disability Coordina

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  1. Accessibility in International Exchange -Resource or Challenge to Higher Education? Paula Pietilä, Disability Coordinator, University of Turku Sini Piippo, Senior Programme Adviser, CIMO July 23, 2013 Eighth International Conference on Higher Education and Disability

  2. Backround • Attitudes and believes of going abroad have been changed, even among disabled people themselves • International exchange has become a normal part of studying • However only few students with disabilities go to exchange during their studies • HEIs have often little information, what kind of things have to be taken into consideration, when student with disabilities go to abroad

  3. CIMO & Accessibility • Centre for International Mobility CIMO: • promoting international mobility and cooperation by providing expertise and services • implementing various exchange, trainee and scholarship programmes, functioning as the National Agency for all LLP-programmes in Finland • organization under the Finnish Ministry for Education and Culture • Strategy 2020 goal: CIMO promotes equal opportunities to participate in international cooperation and actively fights inequality • Internal working group to promote accessible international mobility in higher education was founded in 2011

  4. Action! • Grants: • Accessibility grants were introduced to all higher education mobility programmes administered by CIMO • Check List: • Accessibility and International Student Mobility - Check List for Exchange Students and Higher Education Institutions • Leaflet • Video • Dialogue with various stakeholders: • HEIs: international coordinators • ESOK Inclusive Higher Education – project: disability coordinators • Nordic Network for Disability Coordinators (NNDC)

  5. Accessibility and International Student Mobility - Check List • Start the preparations for the exchange in goodtime • Differences in • National legislation and services for people with disabilities • Regulations and practicesbetweenHEIs • Culturaldefinitions for disability/accessibility

  6. Accessibility and International Student Mobility - Check List • Co-operationbetweenHEIs in a keyrole • Check out: • The physicalaccessibility in the receiving HEI • Possibility to accomodations in studying • Possibility to accessiblehousing and healthservices

  7. Accessibility and International Student Mobility - Check List • Takecare of accessibility in yourown HEI • Giveinformation • aboutaccessibility and servicesalso to exchangestudentsactively • in accessibleformat • in English/otherlanguages • Find out the possibities to supportstudent in accessibilityissues • Describe, whatkind of informationyour HEI needsfrom the exchangestudent, for example for accomodations and askadditionalinformationfromthe student, whenneeded Crucial: make sure the student is notleftalone with the preparations

  8. More information • For more information on accessibility grants and the check list: • http://www.cimo.fi/programmes/north-south-south/accessibility_grant‘ • Video: • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuhIP-0AjKg

  9. In the future we will maintain accessibility on the top of our agenda! Thank you for your attention – looking forward to discussions with you! Paula Pietilä Sini Piippo papiet@utu.fisini.piippo@cimo.fi +358 2 333 6235 +358 295 338 595

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