Exhibition "Preventing disabilities - time for barrier-free action!"
October 30 to November 9 in House Z I in Zittau.
Visit, get to know & Participate - with these 3 keywords we invite students and employees of the university to the exhibition. Both in a professional context and in our private lives, we repeatedly experience the diversity of our fellow human beings and the resulting special needs. In the foyers at the Hochwaldstraße entrance, two exhibition modules bring selected forms of disability to life.
Why?
People who do not have visual or hearing impairments, for example, are often unable to imagine how these impairments affect their everyday lives. However, this awareness is the basis for designing an environment that is as barrier-free as possible. This is an important issue, which is also the subject of the exhibition by the Saxon State Ministry of Social Affairs and Consumer Protection and our university.
The diversity of people also requires solutions in everyday life at the HSZG that serve to compensate for disadvantages. People with disabilities are particularly dependent on this. They do not want special attention. Like all other people, they need acceptance and participation for their self-efficacy.
The Inclusion 2025 action plan published by the HSZG in February 2018 addresses the special responsibility of all university members (employees and students) for the implementation of the rights of people with disabilities in accordance with the UN Convention on Human Rights (UN CRPD).
The action plan defines the individual measures with participation goals in 5 fields of action and underpins them with resources. The fields of action are:
● University organization
● Personnel
● Studies: teaching and examinations, including practical semesters and semesters abroad
● Structural accessibility
● communicative accessibility
The university is thus also responding to the political demand to raise the profile of disability in the context of studying and teaching, and as an employer. Inclusion can be an important driver for the renewal of processes and structures, as well as for the continuous review of one's own attitude.
Your contacts at the university are
Representative for students with disabilities: Prof. Dr. Michael Kaspar
Contact person for students regarding advice on compensation for disadvantages: Dr. Jürgen Scheibler
Inclusion officer of the employer (SGB IX): Uta Jahnich
Representative for the severely disabled (SGB IX): Julia Renger
Visit, get to know & Join in - it's possible until November 9!
Photos: The exhibition modules were on display for 1 week in the auditorium of the university on the Görlitz campus.
Contact:
Robert Viertel, M.A.
Employee for Inclusion
Center for Knowledge and Technology Transfer
to reach:
- Theodor-Körner-Allee 16, 02763 Zittau
Phone: +49 3581 / 374 4356 Fax: +49 3581 / 374 54356
- Brückenstr. 1, 02826 Görlitz