1. Academic Support for Disabled Students as an Example of Social Responsibility of University Ireneusz Bialek Małgorzata Perdeus Dagmara Nowak-Adamczyk

2. Jagiellonian University Founded in 1364

3. Disability Support Service  academic center providing educational support for disabled students of the Jagiellonian University, candidates, university staff, people supporting the idea of inclusive education to the mainstream  mission: ensuring equal educational opportunities, equal rights, equal responsibilities

4. Disability Support Service’s offert is focused on:  students with visual impairment  students withhearing impairment  students with mobility impairment  students with mental health diffficulties  students with dyslexia, dysgraphia  students with other disabilities  university candidates  university academic staff and administration Statistics 2010/2011: 44 813 all students at the Jagiellonian University/667 disabled students

5. Responsible university Academic model of students’ support  Support in a process of learning/teaching  Disability awareness student Disability Support Service academic staff

6. The Constellation Leo: The educational support programme for Jagiellonian University students with mental health difficulties www.LeoProject.eu

8. Why the project?  Significant increase in the number of students with mental health difficulties 10 x

9. Statistics in detail: 2009/2010  28 % of students with depression  23 % of students with schizophrenia  12 % of students with drug addiction

10. About the Project  Duration time: January 2010 – August 2011  Participants: 40 Jagiellonian University students  Criteria: - motivation, - need of psychological support

11. Prorities  to offer wide-ranging psychological support to students with mental health difficulties  to offer such students bespoke training programmes focusing on maximum use of their potential related to the educational process and their functioning in knowledge-based society  to open the website, facilitating a better understanding of problems faced by students with mental health difficulties and promoting solid knowledge on mental illnesses and their consequences, and  combating stereotypes related to mental health difficulties in the academic community.

12. Actions:  First stage: psychological support  Second stage: personalized training programmes supporting a learning process  Parallel: educational platforme student with mental health difficulties inclusion academic community

13. Results  inclusion of 40 students with mental health difficulties in a comprehensive programme of psychological support and personalised training programmes on social competences;  in justified cases, referring the students to high-quality specialists in psychiatry offering consultation;  launching a debate in the academic community on mental health difficulties and their consequences for the teaching process, and  equipping the broadly understood academic community with the ability to respond to problems and challenges related to the presence of persons with mental health dificulties at university.

14. ‘My Journey’ - reflections on mental health and university education „These are my two biggest dreams in life: to be healthy and to graduate from the university”. Ewa Kowalska, My Journey