The CEF-Udima Educational Group and the ONCE Foundation have signed an agreement to improve the access of people with disabilities to university and the labor market.
The president of Udima, Arancha de las Heras, and the general director of Fundación ONCE, José Luis Martínez Donoso, signed this collaboration agreement to eliminate discrimination in society by training and raising awareness. It also improves labor inclusion through academic internships, among other actions.
During the signing, which was also attended by the director of the Department of Professional Development CEF-Udima, Kelly Brun, Arancha de las Heras, showed the appreciation of the Educational Group to “move forward” with this agreement, in which there are “obligations and responsibilities on both sides”. The president of Udima stressed that, among the thousands of “knowledge-hungry” students who occupy the classrooms of the educational institution, there is also room to talk about inclusion and equality. “Every year we can do more to raise awareness and work towards inclusion,” she said.
The agreement establishes four areas of action for the next four years: training and awareness, universal accessibility, labor inclusion and the possibility of including Udima in the ONCE Foundation’s Forum for Socially Responsible Contracting.
As Arancha de las Heras recalled, the university has already had a Special Needs Unit for some years, but she stressed the need to “talk to the student” -beyond the adapted academic material- as “the best way” to channel their needs: “Let them tell us about it so we can offer them the best solution, and also learn how to improve our teaching”.
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For his part, Martínez Donoso particularly valued the attitude of the CEF- Udima Group, in addition to the adapted academic materials: “You believe that you must go further”. The general director of Fundación ONCE briefly explained how this struggle for accessibility has evolved. After a good moment with public aid through the Imserso, a legal conflict paralyzed all the activities that had been developed with the universities.
“From that moment on, almost all universities came to a standstill,” he continued, and since then, a parallel effort began at Fundación ONCE to “encourage students with disabilities to have access to university.”
As a result of this work, this agreement has arisen, which looks at the more than 20,000 university students with disabilities in Spain, as well as those who want to access a position in the Public Administration, which already has a disability quota.
Martínez Donoso stressed that advantage must be taken of the current context, especially in the higher scales (groups A and B), where this accessibility can really be seen.
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The CEF-Udima Educational Group and the ONCE Foundation have signed an agreement to improve the access of people with disabilities to university and the labor market.
The president of Udima, Arancha de las Heras, and the general director of Fundación ONCE, José Luis Martínez Donoso, signed this collaboration agreement to eliminate discrimination in society by training and raising awareness. It also improves labor inclusion through academic internships, among other actions.
During the signing, which was also attended by the director of the Department of Professional Development CEF-Udima, Kelly Brun, Arancha de las Heras, showed the appreciation of the Educational Group to “move forward” with this agreement, in which there are “obligations and responsibilities on both sides”. The president of Udima stressed that, among the thousands of “knowledge-hungry” students who occupy the classrooms of the educational institution, there is also room to talk about inclusion and equality. “Every year we can do more to raise awareness and work towards inclusion,” she said.
The agreement establishes four areas of action for the next four years: training and awareness, universal accessibility, labor inclusion and the possibility of including Udima in the ONCE Foundation’s Forum for Socially Responsible Contracting.
As Arancha de las Heras recalled, the university has already had a Special Needs Unit for some years, but she stressed the need to “talk to the student” -beyond the adapted academic material- as “the best way” to channel their needs: “Let them tell us about it so we can offer them the best solution, and also learn how to improve our teaching”.
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For his part, Martínez Donoso particularly valued the attitude of the CEF- Udima Group, in addition to the adapted academic materials: “You believe that you must go further”. The general director of Fundación ONCE briefly explained how this struggle for accessibility has evolved. After a good moment with public aid through the Imserso, a legal conflict paralyzed all the activities that had been developed with the universities.
“From that moment on, almost all universities came to a standstill,” he continued, and since then, a parallel effort began at Fundación ONCE to “encourage students with disabilities to have access to university.”
As a result of this work, this agreement has arisen, which looks at the more than 20,000 university students with disabilities in Spain, as well as those who want to access a position in the Public Administration, which already has a disability quota.
Martínez Donoso stressed that advantage must be taken of the current context, especially in the higher scales (groups A and B), where this accessibility can really be seen.