1. Maria Schmidt-Dengler EAIE 2005 Krakow Why a network within the network? Why a network for dis/ability officers? Good practice and bad experience

2. Maria Schmidt-Dengler EAIE 2005 Krakow Mission Statement on Equal Opportunities « All UNICA universities, as Universities in the Capital Cities of Europe committed to democratic values, pledge themselves to the implementation of policies, procedures and practices which do not discriminate on grounds of gender, marital status, age, disability, colour, ethnic origin, religious belief or sexual orientation. Consequently they will implement programmes to remove barriers to equality and to promote concepts of diversity and equality of opportunity in all their activities. » Signed on 15 December 2000 on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of UNICA.

3. Maria Schmidt-Dengler EAIE 2005 Krakow What happened so far? 13-14 September 2001: Seminar on „Managing and implementing diversity/anti-discrimination policies in higher education, Universität Wien 12-13 December 2003: Seminar on Equal Opportunities, Brussels/VUB

4. Maria Schmidt-Dengler EAIE 2005 Krakow Dis/ability is just one of many reasons for not equal opportunities in higher education. But it is one that very much affects mobility and therefore involves IROs directly.

5. Maria Schmidt-Dengler EAIE 2005 Krakow EAIE 2002 Porto: session by Helsinki University (Liisa Laitinen) EAIE 2003 Vienna: 2 sessions EAIE 2006 Kraków: workshop, session

6. Maria Schmidt-Dengler EAIE 2005 Krakow UNICA activities: Letter was sent to the rectors to Identify the dis/ability officers (DOs) Raise awareness Implement dis/ability services where not yet in place Provide IROs and DOs with the names of the contact persons at the partner universities

7. Maria Schmidt-Dengler EAIE 2005 Krakow List of UNICA Dis/ability Officers almost complete 2004 meeting of some DOs at the fringe of the 5th conference in Innsbruck on Higher Education and Disability Preparation of Conference in Tatra 2005 Invitation to Roma Tre > 2006

8. Maria Schmidt-Dengler EAIE 2005 Krakow To do: Conference in Tatra (Elena Mendelova) List of Minimum standards (Pawel Wdowik) Action Plan (Joeri Van den Brande)