SUSTAINABLE WAYS TO INCREASE HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS’ EQUAL ACCESS TO LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
The overall aim of the SWING project is to create sustainable policies in Universities to enable disabled students to have equal access to learning environments and programmes. Partners will collaborate in the development, selection, procurement and use of accessible IT and accessibility standards that will be available through the Accessibility Centres in Partner Countries (MA, EG). More specifically, the project aims to put into practice the EU e-accessibility policies that help achieve greater levels of Web accessibility across the Partner Country Universities’ Services for the benefit of disabled students.
MEETING OBJECTIVES
1. To offer disabled students equal access to university facilities by using assistive technology and accessible IT.
2. To utilize the EU e-accessibility best practices in order to achieve greater levels of Web accessibility across the Partner Countries’ Universities.
3. To design and establish a model for Accessibility Centres in Partner Countries.
4. To train academic, careers, support staff and technical experts from the Partner Country Universities in Student Accessibility.
5. To promote the adaptation of specialized « design-for-all » policies (universal design approaches) by the Universities through the development of sustainable Accessibility Centres.
6. To develop and disseminate recommendations for other Universities based on EUROPA Web Accessibility Policy and WAI standards.
CONSORTIUM
- Coventry University – United Kingdom
- Arab Academy of Science, Technology and Maritime Transport – Egypt
- Alexandria University – Egypt
- University of Alicante – Spain
- Alma Mater Studiorum Universita di Bologna – Italy
- Four Elements -Greece
- Abdelmalek Essaâdi University – Morocco
- Ibn Tofail University – Morocco