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Case Studies of Inclusive Higher Education in Norway, Sweden and Slovakia

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Advances in Design for Inclusion (AHFE 2018)

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The case studies of inclusive higher education in selected European countries are one of the outputs of the European project: UNIALL - Accessibility of Higher Education for Students with Special Needs, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union. This output is focused on the analysis and transfer of good practices of designing inclusive environment at selected universities in Europe, as well as the systemic policy and legislation configuration for inclusive design and education in selected European countries. The aim of these case studies is to present national legislative framework and solutions for comprehensive universal accessibility of higher education covering all aspects of accessibility and usability for wide spectrum of students, including those with special needs.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank all the people who helped to collect these case studies within the UNIALL project, in particular the staff of the Norwegian Research Laboratory for Universal Design at NTNU in Gjøvik, and the Design Research Lab at Mid Sweden University in Sundsvall.

The project UNIALL: Accessibility of Higher Education for Students with Special Needs is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union (grant agreement no. 2015-1-SK01-KA203-008959). The project is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic.

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Ceresnova, Z., Rollova, L. (2019). Case Studies of Inclusive Higher Education in Norway, Sweden and Slovakia. In: Di Bucchianico, G. (eds) Advances in Design for Inclusion. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 776. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94622-1_30

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