1. Disability Awareness – A New Challenge for Higher Education – raising disability awareness among academic teachers Dagmara Nowak – Adamczyk Disability Support Service

2. DARE Project Disability Awareness – a New Challenge for Employees 2007-2009 Project implemented as part of the Lifelong Learning –Transfer of Innovation - initiative of the Leonardo da Vinci Programme

3. Partnership Jagiellonian University Università degli Studi di Padova Learning Differences, United Kingdom Euroinform Ltd., Bulgaria Federacion de Asociaciones de Minusválidos Físicos de Córdoba (FEPAMIC), Spain

4. Project’s aims: Main aim: to enhance the qualifications of academic teachers and administration staff in the field of disability and disabled people’s participation in the society based on disability knowledge

5. Detailed aims: providing the target groups with reliable knowledge concerning disability, its types, its physiological and psychological consequences, eliminating the barriers faced by disabled people in their daily lives and ways to achieve that, developing in the target groups an active attitude supporting disabled persons based on reliable knowledge acquired in the training,

6. equipping the target groups with the skills of making correct and effective contact with disabled people, eliminating negative attitudes related to disability, stereotypes and withdrawal attitudes, improving the image of disabled people as students, applicants and work colleagues.

7. Academic teachers - learning outcomes enhancing qualifications concerning knowledge about different barriers in a social life of disabled people, decreasing of social stereotypes and prejudices about disabled people, decreasing of fear in a contact with disabled people,

8. gaining knowledge about disability language taking into consideration a change of thinking about disability, changing of a way of thinking about disabled people: not as objects of charity, but as subjects of a social life.

9. Outcomes of the project Training courses for academic teachers and administrative staff Web site

10. Training course for academic teachers manual for teachers’ trainers training materials for teachers

11. Structure of the training Modules Stereotypes Communication & Teaching strategies Experience of disability Assistive Technologies & Disability

12. Disability – teaching strategies Visual impairment Hearing impairment Mobility impairment Mental health difficulties Dyslexia

13. Methods & materials Interactive and multimedia: educational films Power Point presentations exercises (simulation games) mind shower case study disscusion

14. Web site Master version – English; Translation to Polish, Bulgarian, Italian and Spanish; Access to: general information about the project, some information about products; presentation of the products (multimedia materials in a form of a very simple e-learning platform).

15. Academic teachers’ evaluation of the training course It was very effective with pleasant atmosphere. I am sure that knowledge that I gained during it is to use in contact with students. It is neccessary to continue training course, because academic teachers are not aware of disabled persons’ requirements.

16. Final conference Disability Awareness – A New Challenge for Education 22 – 23 October Jagiellonian University in Krakow Collegium Novum university building, Main Auditorium www.konferencja.DareProject.eu

17. Jagiellonian University Disability Support Service 1/210, Retoryka Street 31-108 Krakow, Poland tel.: 48 12 424 09 50 bon@uj.edu.pl www.bon.uj.edu.pl