Erasmus+ Project: Preparing Universities to Cooperate with Neuroatypical Students
The inaugural meeting for the Erasmus+ Project: ‘Preparing Universities to Cooperate with Neuroatypical Students’ took place at the Campus of the Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, in Wroclaw, Poland on 13th and 14th March 2025. The following Universities form the consortium to this project:
- Wroclaw University of Economics and Business (WUEB) – Coordinator
- University of Central Lancashire Cyprus (UCLan Cyprus)
- Riga Technical University (RTU)
- Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (UTCN)
- University of Presov (UNIPO)
At day one of the kick-off meeting the partners proceeded with a presentation of their universities before discussing and confirming the protocol that shall govern consortium members’ cooperation and communication. Then, project implementation rules and milestones were presented and confirmed by the partners. Following approval of the project’s governance, discussion moved to the consideration of the procedures that partner universities follow in the management of neurodiverse students and academic staff. Further, published best practices that other than the partner Universities in Europe implement were presented and discussed. Work packages were then articulated in detail, followed by an allocation of their implementation to the partners.
At day two, methodological matters that are centrally concerned with the implementation of work packages were discussed, and it was agreed that such research tools as the following will be deployed: in-depth interviews with university administration, a survey questionnaire for students, focus groups with academic tutors. Finally, the rules and steps to be involved in the dissemination of the project’s findings were discussed and agreed.
The next project meeting shall take place in Riga, Latvia on 15-16th September 2025.
