Interactive lecture “Accessibility at university: Awareness raising and curricular adaptations for students with disabilities”

– From the experience of a Swiss Office for Students with Disabilities –

Where and when: Club Room of the Academic College (1, E. de Martonne St.), Wednesday, 27 April 2016, 17:00-19:00. Admission is free.

Guest: Dr. Phil. Olga Meier-Popa, Director of the Disability Office of the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Participants: administrative staff, teaching staff, researchers and UBB students (with and without disabilities), UBB alumni and collaborators.

The UBB Office for Students with Disabilities operates within the UBB Rector’s office and aims to facilitate and support the inclusion of students with special learning needs in university life, as well as to inform teachers and students about accessibility and disability. BSD offers a series of educational events on physical and social accessibility, some of them with guest speakers from foundations, associations and institutions actively involved in ensuring a barrier-free life.

On 27 April 2016, for the second time at Babeș-Bolyai University, Mrs Olga Meier-Popa, Director of the Office for Students with Disabilities of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, will be present. The BSD of the University of Zurich, founded in 1976, is the oldest office of its kind in German-speaking Europe. Its activities and achievements, as well as its working methods, have developed over the years within the specific social-political and legal framework. In the lecture Accessibility at the University, a series of actions to raise awareness among teachers and administrative staff on accessibility and curricular adaptations for students with disabilities will be presented.

More details about the BSD of the University of Zurich: www.disabilityoffice.uzh.ch.