Universellrapport 1:2017 - Equity in Student Mobility in Nordic Higher Education (ESMHE)
Publisert: 07.mar 2018
Endret: 21.mai 2019
The ESMHE project is a result of an initiative by the Nordic Committee of Senior Officials for Education and Research (ÄK-U), which implements the policy of the Nordic Council of Ministries of Education and Research (MR-U). The project is a part of the Nordic “Action Plan for Nordic Co-operation on Disability 2015 – 2017”.
Students with disabilities are an underrepresented group in international mobility in Higher Education. This project will reveal and discuss barriers towards mobility as well as suggestions for action at different levels, both politically and practically.
The project management would like to thank NCM for the opportunity to investigate these questions, and will thank Kai Koivumäki (NCM) and Maria Montefusco (Nordic Welfare Centre, NVC) for all support.
The project had been carried out by a network of Nordic universities, called NNDC (the Nordic Network of Disability Coordinators). Partners in the project has been:
Tina Teljstedt, Karolinska Institutet (Sweden)
Maria Hune, Lærings og kompetancecenteret (Denmark)
Christina “Kina” Edin, Luleå Technical University (Sweden)
Elinor Olaussen and Kjetil Knarlag, Norwegian university of science and technology (NTNU) / Universell (Norway)
Helga Helgadóttir, University of Iceland (Iceland)
Elina Lehtomäki, University of Jyväskylä (Finland)
Karoline Pinholt, University of Southern Denmark (Denmark)
Paula Pietilä, University of Turku (Finland)
The project report is written by Elina Lehtomäki and Kjetil Knarlag.
The project group hopes that our investigation can be used to develop better policies and better practice for inclusion in Higher Education, and that student’s with different disabilities have better opportunities to take studies abroad.
On behalf of the ESMHE project and the NNDC cooperation, February 2017.
Kjetil Knarlag
Project Manager
Read this report