The project Access aims at improving and guaranteeing learning conditions, as well as promoting policy change towards the inclusion of students with disabilities

Havana, Dec 5 (RHC) The Cuban city of Varadero will host this December 5 and 6 the Final Conference Advancing towards inclusive and accessible higher education in Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica.

The conference encompasses the project known as Access, whose objective is improving and guaranteeing learning conditions, as well as promoting policy change towards the inclusion of students with disabilities.

According to the local coordinator Maylé Salgado, Access includes in its program students from Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica who receive studies that contribute to their professional training through modern practices of inclusion, training and corporate work.

The project aims at establishing a general national and regional network that consolidates interest in inclusion policies at the higher education level and thereby increase inter-institutional relations and achieve new links between Latin American universities and European counterparts.

Among the institutions attending the conference are the Cuban universities of Matanzas, Ciego de Ávila, the Agrarian University of Havana, the Technological Institute of Costa Rica, the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and the houses of higher education in Alicante and Macedonia belonging to Spain and Greece. (Source: PL)