Office for Persons with Disabilities

The Office for Persons with Disabilities (BON) provides multidirectional support for students and doctoral students with disabilities. We understand disability broadly as a situation in which a person, due to their condition, faces obstacles in an environment designed to meet the needs of the majority, while underestimating the degree of diversity of users’ needs. In our activities we focus on the analysis of individual obstacles and the possibility of offsetting their impact on the ground of study.

 

We offer support in applying for an individual course of study, i.e. organizational changes responding to health situations that limit the possibility of full participation in classes, including the ability to pass exams and obtain credits in the standard mode. The scope of the individual course of study is determined individually in the course of consultation with BON and requires the approval of the director of the doctoral school. The changes recommended within the framework of the individual course of study may concern both the forms of participation in classes, the schedule of completion of individual academic obligations, access to teaching and examination materials, ways of presenting the knowledge possessed, and physical access to various spaces at the university. The BON’s adaptation department prepares and assists in the preparation of available teaching and examination materials.

 

BON prepares recommendations for requests for temporary suspension of education when deterioration of health or the need to undertake intensive treatment or rehabilitation temporarily excludes a doctoral student from fulfilling their studies at the doctoral school.

 

Doctoral students with a disability certificate may, by submitting a copy of it to the BON, apply for an increase in their doctoral scholarship.

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