Inclusive University
"An accessible world creates opportunities for meeting and getting to know each other. The path to follow is not always easy, but it is everyone's duty. The important thing is to take the first step."
We promote inclusive policies that focus on gender inequality, including linguistic inequality, and the reduction of barriers; and we encourage the full participation in university life of the academic community in conditions of disability, vulnerability, difficulty.
To give substance to this mission, we have set up a network of supports dedicated to inclusion and disability. In addition, outside the classrooms we promote technical tables and collaborate with other bodies, with the aim of sharing good practices and making our contribution to promoting sustainable and inclusive social contexts.
We believe in the presence of students and teachers in the classroom as a vehicle for inclusion, as it guarantees a sharing of spaces and opportunities for exchange and relationships. For this reason, we provide dedicated services and we are also ready to put in place extraordinary measures for those in a situation that makes it impossible to attend classes in person.
We want to make sure that everyone can use the Unipd spaces, so we are drawing up plans for access to our facilities, which in many cases are ancient and therefore need to be reviewed and equipped.
We have also created a downloadable guide to the accessible routes at the University (in pdf).
In talking about disability, we overcome the obsolete ways that often convey stigmatizing and distorted images. Because the presence of a disability is only a part of a person's life and this does not coincide with one of the attributes that simply characterizes them.
