MUSE - Disability and Modernity. Ensuring Quality Education for Disabled Students

Scientific coordinator: Prof. Roberta Caldin

Project Team: Roberto Dainese, Luca Ferrari, Luca Decembrotto, Alessia Cinotti, Giulia Righini, Enrico Angelo Emili

Key Action: KA2 - Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices

Action Type: Capacity Building in the field of higher education (CBHE)

Applicant: Universidad Vina del Mar (Chile - CL)

Partners: University Magallanes (CL), Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey EGADE Business School (MX), Universidad de Colima (MX), Universidad Nacional del Rosario (AR), Universidad Nacional del Litoral (AR), Universidad de Alicante (ES), Coventry University (UK), Alma Mater Studiorum – Universita di Bologna (IT), Astiki Mh Kerdoskopikh Etaireia Four Elements - Four Elements -NGO (GR).

N.r Partners: 11

Partners’ Countries: IT, UK, GR, ES, CL, AR, MX

UNIBO’s role: Partner

Project Duration (in months): 36

Start Date: 15/10/2015

End Date: 14/10/2018

Status: closed

Total Budget: 924.315 euro

Unibo Budget: 68.000 euro

Project’s Topics: Accessibility of Higher Education

Description: Democratisation of HE has helped to ensure a growing trend of increasing enrolment of students with disabilities, although it is still not significant enough in terms of potential numbers. According to the World Health Organisation, 15% of the world’s population are estimated to live with some form of disability (World Report on Disability, 2011) and evidence suggests that persons with disabilities are disproportionately represented among the world’s poor. The adaptation of HE to cater for disability is of major importance from an economic, political and social point of view. Only through this can the employability of persons with disabilities be enhanced, and public policies focusing on the promotion of work, income security, poverty prevention and social exclusion can be supported. In this framework, the overall objective of the MUSE project is to improve access, ensure learning conditions and develop employment opportunities for HEIs’ Disabled Students in Latin American countries via modern inclusion practices and networking. The three Latin American countries involved in are Chile, Mexico and Argentina, with the support of institutions in EU (UK, Spain, Italy and Greece).