Welcome to ELTE University's Service for Students with Disabilities!
What we do
Our aim is to offer support to national and international students across the university who have:
a recognised disability
a specific learning difference
a medical condition
a mental health problem
which impacts upon their ability to participate fully in university life. We recommend you to contact either the university or faculty disability coordinators prior to your studies.
Policy
The university is committed to supporting students with disabilities and has outlined this commitment in key policy documents based on the Higher Education Act (2005).
Who should contact us
If you have any queries regarding disability, specific learning problems, mental health problems, medical conditions or any other issues, and you are a prospective student, a current student or a member of university staff we actively encourage you to contact our disability coordinators. Our friendly advisers are willing to discuss, in confidence, any concerns you may have. In particular, they can give guidance regarding disclosure of a disability.
Whom you should contact
The university has a disability coordinator and each faculty has its own disability coordinator. They work in a team and have a meeting twice a year. Each year we organize a forum for students with disability on a university level but the faculties also organize meetings with their own students. Name and accessibility of the disability coordinators at ELTE University:
Contact and make an appointment to see your disability coordinator.
Make sure you have appropriate medical or psychological diagnostic evidence of your disability and bring it with you to your first appointment.
Your disability coordinator will discuss your academic support needs with you.
A Recommended Reasonable Adjustments (RRA) report will be written by the Institutional Disability Coordinator detailing your disability, its effects upon your academic performance and recommended support. The first draft of this report will be sent to you for your approval.
When you have agreed with your coordinator that you are happy with the content of your RRA report, it will be printed and signed
It is your responsibility to show it to the academic staff to inform them of your support requirements.
Student Support and Reasonable Adaptation
The buildings of 6 faculties are barrier free:
Bárczi Faculty of Special Education
Faculty of Humanities
Faculty of Informatics
Faculty of Psychology and Education
Faculty of Social Sciences
Faculty of Sciences
The building of the Faculty of Law is semi-accessible which means that there are split levels without elevator stops
The building of the Faculty of Primary and Pre-School Education is not accessible
Faculty libraries have working stations for students with visual impairment
Two labs with assistive technology (CCTV, JAWS, Magic, Track ball, Scanner, PC’s, adjustable and bendable table with low vision lamp, Braille printer and Braille output, Poet Compact, dictionaries and language books on CDs)
Personal non-medical assistants and volunteer students can be hired
Special equipment can be rented (MP3 player, digital recorder, lap-top with JAWS, video magnifier, telescope, Radio hearing system, electric wheelchair)
Oral exam can be changed to written one and visa versa
Extra time granted during the exams (30% more)
Sign language interpretation can be hired
Provision of any materials either in advance or after the lecture, (materials to include such things as handouts, photocopies of lecture slides, etc.).
Permission, if required, to record lectures, tutorials or seminars, having first obtained permission from the lecturer to do so
Support is also provided by other key sections of the university and includes:
provision of accessible college accommodation (where available)
welfare support via the Student Union (in Hungarian: HÖK), and ELTE ESN
assistance in negotiating with the academic staff (if applicable and where appropriate)
According to the data from the European Commission, there is a very low participation of students with special need in the Erasmus mobility and, more in general, in exchange opportunities (only 0.17% in 2008-2009).
A consortium composed by UNICA, ESN, ErasmusHogeschool Brussel, University of Cyprus, Tallinn University of Technology, Eötvös Lorand University Budapest, Comenius University Bratislava set up a project that aimed to enable students with disabilities to participate more fully in exchange programmes.
The idea was to stimulate the mobility of students with disabilities by organising site visits to the five European universities. The visits were organised by the partner universities with the cooperation and involvement of the ‘ExchangeAbility Ambassadors’ (students with disabilities) from both welcoming and sending universities.
A grant for the project was approved by the European Commission (call DG EAC/41/09) in the framework of the "Lifelong Learning Programme", action "Erasmus Accompanying Measures".
Eötvös Loránd University hereby forwards the scholarship scheme of the European
Union for Belorussian citizens. The applicants can apply for the tuition fees and
a scholarship at the Open Europe Scholarship Scheme.
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Apply now! Application open until 31 December 2011. The ELTE-UNESCO Minority
Studies Program (ELTE-UNESCO MSP) is an international two-year postgraduate MA
program, established in 1993. The ELTE-UNESCO MSP is a special (English-language)
interdisciplinary education program that aims to create an international community
of students and lecturers. A core strength of the Program lies in a coordinated
approach whereby theory, applied scholarship, and intervention skills are joined
together to provide a unique academic opportunity and a 'training-ground' for future
minority policy experts.
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assurance system of Hotelstars Union. The *** trademark assures quality, which
is an advantage for the guest as well as for the hotel.
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