The project includes activities and intellectual outputs to ensure the adaptation of individuals with disabilities to the higher education process and subsequent life processes, to increase their accessibility to fundamental rights, to raise awareness of disabled and non-disabled individuals on disability and disability rights.
The main objective of the project is to prepare a curriculum which includes subjects such as disability and disability rights based on human rights, disability legislation, employment opportunity, employment and social security legislation, tax legislation, legal regulations within the scope of criminal law, principally basic communication, training of sign language, communication techniques with subtitle, empathy, body language, comparative disability legislation and practices and to provide the placement of this curriculum among the curriculums of higher education institutions.
The basic modules of the curriculum prepared within the scope of the Project will be extended to the distance education module as well as formal education, and accessibility to the information within the scope of the curriculum will be increased. Survey will be conducted to the target group determined in the first phase of the project. Participants, who are the representatives of the universe to be conducted survey, will be the disabled and non-disabled students of the coordinator Gaziantep University (Turkey), Uludağ University (Turkey), (Poland) AHE, (Greece) University of Thessaly, which are the other strategic partners of the project.
The number we envisaged for the participants has been planned to be approximately 500 people from the coordinator university and the universities which are the strategic partners of the project. Participants of these activities will be determined by demanding in writing from public and private institutions and organizations and non-governmental organizations carrying out activities related to disability and disability rights.
The profile of the participants who will participate in dissemination and promotion activities are the students, staff and academicians who are the target audience of the project in the coordinator and partner countries. Activities and outputs of the project; awareness raising and evaluation meetings for the in-house target group and dissemination meetings to be held apart from the external multiplier events, turning the analysis results of the surveys conducted within the scope of the project into booklet and report, ensuring that scientific publications to be prepared as a result of survey studies are also reference sources for those working in this field, creation of a formal and virtual information sharing platform in electronic environment for the opinions and suggestions of academicians working in this field, in cooperation with coordinator and partner universities, creation of a formal and virtual information platform to have opinions of academicians in universities of partner countries and in coordinator university for the curriculum study to be prepared within the scope of the project, making a part of the curriculum an open educational resource for students through distance education, sharing the curriculum and analysis study with the community through the associated partners, as a result of the project, a proposal text has been prepared by Gaziantep University and it has been planned to share it with local and national decision makers to support policy reform.
After the end of the project, Gaziantep University will be the coordinator of the use, dissemination and sustainability of the intellectual outputs. Gaziantep University will provide guidance on the placement of the curriculum to be prepared within the scope of the project in the course catalogs of other universities and on the development of its content. Regulations on current developments will be presented to the Higher Education Council as a policy proposal.
In order to make the Project sustainable, after the project has been completed, new projects will be prepared related to the project subject. In the later period, curriculum presentations will be held in training units of Turkey Bar Association, the Turkish Medical Association, Bar Association and the Medical Chamber and other relevant professional chambers and contribution will be made in the reorganization of vocational training programs within itself.
The outputs to be obtained from the curriculum through the disabled units of universities, which are our transnational strategic partners, will be published on the web sites of universities in the international platform.