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Inclusion of all persons in educational process relates with the accessibility of educational environment, encompassing the information and communication technologies, teaching methods, and support services. The objective of ongoing research project UNIALL: Accessibility of Higher Education for Students with Special Needs, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union, is to propose the methodology for inclusive design of educational environment for diverse people. This can help to prevent any type of discrimination of the students with disabilities or learning difficulties. The project uses human-centred approach to propose solutions that can be flexibly adapted to diverse abilities of each individual in educational environment.
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CABE was merged into the Design Council on 1 April 2011.
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The authors thank all the people who participated in the UNIALL project, in particular the staff of the Centre of Design for All and the students of the Faculty of Architecture, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, as well as the staff of the Support Centre at Comenius University in Bratislava. The project UNIALL: Accessibility of Higher Education for Students with Special Needs is cofounded by the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union (grant agreement no. 2015-1-SK01-KA203-008959). The project is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic.
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Ceresnova, Z., Rollova, L., Koncekova, D. (2018). Inclusive Design of Educational Environment for Diverse People. In: Di Bucchianico, G., Kercher, P. (eds) Advances in Design for Inclusion. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 587. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60597-5_41
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