INTEC is part of an international project for the inclusion of students with disabilities

SANTO DOMINGO. - The Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) is part al ACCESS project at European Union, to look at to improve la accessibility, guarantee conditions de learning y foster el cultural, de policies to the inclusion de students with disabilities.

The agreement that is managed by Maria Luisa Ferrand, coordinator of Institutional Mobility, and Leonidas Germán, Director of Teacher and Curriculum Development, aims to create modern practices of inclusion, training and networking in Higher Education in Costa Rica, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

ACCESS has a consortium made up of two Higher Education institutions from Costa Rica, four from Cuba and five from the Dominican Republic, the Ministries of Higher Education of these Latin American countries, the University of Macedonia and the University of Alicante, which is the coordinator of the draft.

This project, which lasts for three years, is co-financed by European funds ERASMUS + KA2, It also proposes to promote cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices in the field of Higher Education, and to create a modern inclusive framework through the creation of Support Centers for students with disabilities.

In addition, ACCESS seeks to maintain long-term strategies for the access and retention of these students in the higher education (HE) system and equip them with assistive technologies to improve the provision of services for the institutions of the consortium.

As well as, the establishment of a National Network in each partner country and a Global Regional Network to consolidate political interest in inclusion policies at the higher education level. Through this, ACCESS will increase inter-agency relationships, exchange of best practices, awareness-raising and policy coordination at the national and regional levels, while responding to society's demand for inclusion and equity.