Until now, people with intellectual disabilities have been practically absent from universities, depriving both them and regular students from valuable learning opportunities. The ICLife project aims to address this problem and help make universities more inclusive.
In the framework of the project, a concept to foster the inclusion of young adults with intellectual disabilities at universities is being developed and deployed at four universities in Europe.
People with intellectual disabilities will be able to take courses according to their interests, and will also be involved in teaching activities as “experts on their own lives” (for example, teaching students studying social work).
Training materials on “How to make your campus more inclusive” will be made available online and disseminated throughout Europe.
Read our articles on the ICLife project
| Implementation Period | 2016 – 2019 |
| Financed by | European Commission (Erasmus+ project) |
| Project Coordinator | Thomas More |
| Project partners | Hogeschool Utrecht Inclusion Europe Lapin AMK Palacký University Olomouc |
Read more about the outcomes on the website of the ICLife project.
ICLife is about making universities more inclusive
for people with intellectual disabilities.
For this project
people with intellectual disabilities
went to 4 universities in Europe.
There they studied things they like,
or they taught courses
on what it means
to have an intellectual disability.
During this project
we also developed some rules
on how to make universities
more inclusive.
The project started in 2016,
and it is still going on.
