Developing solutions for the inclusion of deaf and hard of hearing students in higher education under the Development Pillar of Funding (RSF) action.

The aim of the project is to create an overview of best existing practices and to present innovative solutions for the development of learning content for teaching and distance learning in higher education in the field of entrepreneurship, accessible to differently-abled students, with a focus on content accessible to blind, partially-sighted, deaf and hard-of-hearing students. The key themes that the project will address relate to inclusive (higher education) systems, the design of digital education systems adapted to differently-abled students and the promotion of innovative (digital) teaching practices.

The project examines the impact of e-learning on students and teachers, with the aims of identifying the key drawbacks of this form of teaching, and taking a positive approach and looking for possible (and existing) adaptations to create a better version of e-learning, with a focus on preserving the features that are lost when education moves from physical to virtual spaces. The project aims to provide training for teachers that will serve as a tool for successful distance learning.

The Creative Repurposing of Educational Spaces for Innovative Student-centred Environments (CREST) project ran from September 2020 to December 2022. Six partner institutions - two universities, three NGOs and one network from Slovenia, Croatia, Poland, Lithuania and Belgium - developed ways to meaningfully repurpose learning spaces, taking into account learning ergonomics, student-centred approaches and participatory social practices.