Co-financing in the form of a lump sum rate may be granted:
- to students going to study or practice, who have the right to receive a social scholarship confirmed by the University,
- students with disabilities who possess a disability certificate and are going to study or practice;
- workers with disabilities who have a disability certificate, and who are leaving in order to conduct classes or for training purposes.
Co-financing in the form of real costs, on the basis of a separate application submitted to the National Agency before the start of mobility, may be granted:
- to students with disabilities and with a disability certificate who are going to study or practice;
- employees with disabilities who possess a disability certificate and leave for classes at a partner university or for training purposes.
The amount granted for expenses directly related to disability is accounted for as actual costs, requiring documentation in the form of financial evidence. Costs should be adjusted to the real needs of the type of disability and realistically estimated.
A person with a disability, hereinafter referred to as a ‘mobility participant’, undertaking mobility under the Erasmus+ financial agreement KA131 is entitled to receive an additional amount in the category ‘inclusion support for participants’ for costs directly related to disability that exceed the amount of the supplementary payment to the individual support rate for participants with fewer opportunities. The amount of additional sum will be determined on the basis of a special application prepared by the mobility participant and submitted on his / her behalf by the sending University to the National Agency. A template for the NA application is available on the Erasmus+ website: https://erasmusplus.org.pl. Ww. the application must be submitted to the NA immediately after the mobility participant is qualified to leave and no later than 5 weeks before the mobility participant leaves for the scholarship.
Each application will be considered individually. The application must be reviewed by the Erasmus+ University coordinator and a representative of the University’s Disability Unit. If the university does not have such a cell, the application must be reviewed by a person who has in his / her area of responsibility issues related to the issues of people with disabilities.
If the National Agency, when assessing an application for funding for actual costs, has doubts as to the appropriateness of the expenditure, it may require the mobility participant to provide additional justification, e.g. an appropriate medical certificate.
Definition of participants with fewer opportunities
Powiślańska Academy of Applied Sciences, thanks to the implementation of the project entitled „Accessible and Barrier-Free Powiślański University”, offers the following facilities for people with disabilities:
• an office for people with disabilities with a disability assistant
• adjustment of entrance thresholds to teaching classrooms
• seats for people with disabilities in classrooms with adjustment of their width
• handrail overlays – tactile Braille information overlays
• screens for the visually impaired or visually impaired – in front of each lecture room + library
• reading devices of the Auto-Lektor Braille type
• augmented keyboard with backlighting
• braille printer BookMaker
• mobile student application in a version adapted to the needs of people with disabilities
• adaptation of teaching materials, including transcription of print into braille writing
• multifunctional device for the blind type IBAI with Acapella voices
• audio programs such as ZoomText; MagReader
• one-handed computer keyboard
• electronic magnifiers for the visually impaired
• flash drive recorder
• desktop/portable enlargers
• customized toilet with motion sensor lighting
• caterpillar stairclimber and wheelchair stair lift
For more information, please contact erasmus@powislanska.edu.pl