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The University of Murcia has presented the first conclusions of the MobiAbility project, which works to ensure that more and more students with disabilities have access to international stays in the Erasmus + program of the European Union.

Currently, only 0.14% of Erasmus students have some type of disability.

The work of the MobiAbility project, led by the University of Murcia and involving partners from Poland, Romania and the Czech Republic, has focused on a first phase in conducting an in-depth study of the reality faced by students with disability, both from the legislative point of view and from the empirical point of view, analyzing the integration measures that European universities have.

An example of the issues that MobiAbility is measuring are the regulations of 21 countries in terms of evaluation adaptations of exams or in terms of architectural barriers.

To make an X-ray of support services for students with disabilities in European campuses, MobiAbility is conducting a survey among universities in the countries participating in the Erasmus + program.

With all this information, the University of Murcia and its partners will develop a standard of support measures that at least all the receiving universities of Erasmus students should have.

The other objective of the project is the development of a web page that serves as a reference to students and their families so they can have a place of accessible information that centralizes data on those universities with better services and better adapted to people with disabilities.

The idea is also to include references and success stories as a way to motivate and inspire future students with disabilities.

The entire project will be completed in July 2019, when the final session will be held in the Polish city of Lublin.

"What has become clear during the conference held at the University of Murcia has been the commitment of the participants to improve the numbers of Erasmus students with disabilities, we have a shared goal and this project is the beginning to continue working in this direction", says Professor Miguel Ángel Pérez, responsible for the project at the University of Murcia.

Source: Universidad de Murcia