The University of Strasbourg’s Disability Road Map sets out its long-term commitment to creating a more inclusive, accessible and welcoming university. The Road Map aims to ensure that everyone has the conditions and support they need to reach their potential and actively participate in university life.
The Disability Road Map applies to the entire university community and involves all faculties, schools, institutes, services and laboratories. It takes a university-wide approach, ensuring that disability is taken into account in all the university’s policies on equality, diversity, quality of working life and conditions, health, accessibility, digital transformation and social responsibility.
What challenges does the Disability Road Map address?
The Disability Road Map sets out a shared vision and a clear direction for making higher education more inclusive and accessible. It identifies key priorities and areas for action, including:
- Providing information, raising awareness, and offering training and support to encourage more inclusive practices across the university community
- Making accessibility an integral part of everyday practices
- Taking accessibility into account from the very start of every project
- Adapting teaching practices to meet the needs of different learners and move towards Universal Design for Learning
- Exploring how artificial intelligence can help adapt teaching and provide appropriate support for learners with disabilities
- Supporting students and staff with disabilities in making their own choices and shaping their own paths, with their individual needs in mind
- Creating opportunities for people to connect, meet and exchange
- Supporting access to employment at the university, in partnership with public- and private-sector employers.
The five key areas of the Disability Road Map
The Disability Road Map is structured around five key areas, each with its own practical actions.
- Area 1 – Welcoming and supporting people with disabilities throughout their time at the university
- Area 2 – Making digital services and university buildings accessible
- Area 3 – Providing information, raising awareness and offering training to foster more inclusive practices
- Area 4 – Promoting research on disability, and producing and sharing knowledge
- Area 5 – Supporting access to employment and recruitment
Document
This document is available in an open format. To request a Braille copy, email svu-handicap@unistra.fr.
Useful resources
Help and support
- Current and prospective students: contact the University Life Office (service de la vie universitaire – SVU)
- Current and prospective staff: contact the Disability and Employment Network (Réseau handicap et travail)