The European Commission, together with the Member States, has developed an Erasmus+ Inclusion and Diversity Strategy, aiming to promote equality and inclusion by facilitating access in education to learners from disadvantaged groups and with fewer opportunities compared to their peers.
Students with Special Needs who wish to participate in the Erasmus+ Program, regardless of whether they can receive an Erasmus mobility grant, have the right to receive an Erasmus+ supplementary grant, the amount of which varies according to the degree of disability.
Additional support for participants with special needs aims to cover additional costs directly related to student’s participation in mobility activities:
- adapted accommodation
- assistance during the trip
- expenses for an assistants or helper
- medical assistance
- consultations or adaptation of the didactic material.
People accompanying participants with special needs have the right to receive a contribution based on actual costs.
Students must inform their Home University International Relations Office that they have a special need and that they wish to apply for an Erasmus+ mobility and the respective supplementary grant.
UBI’s International Relations Office (Internationalization and Cooperation Office – sector of support to Internationalization) will support and guide the student in regard to an equal access to opportunities in campus and in the city.
Students with fewer opportunities can benefit from the support services UBI provides to local students. Examples of support provided at UBI through the Office for Health, Psychological Support and Special Educational and Health Needs are:
- Psychological support
- Preventive medicine
- Sports medicine
- Psychopedagogical support to students with study or learning difficulties, visual impairment (blindness, low vision, partial sight), hearing impairment (deafness, hard of hearing, cochlear implant); physical disability; specific learning difficulties and neurodevelopmental disorders (dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, ADHD); Autism-spectrum disorder; speech impairment or language disorders; Note: UBI does not have sign language interpreters, nor specialists in this area.
- Articulation with external community support services if needed
For more information, please contact the University of Beira Interior’s program International Relations Officer.