Asisstance and support

Camps and training seminars organised by the Support Office for Persons with Disabilities

The Summer English Language School in seaside resorts and the Winter Training Seminar are organised in fully accessible and adapted centres with extensive leisure and sports facilities.
For more information see the news on the Bureau's website.

Adapted physical education classes

Students with disabilities, as part of their physical education classes (compulsory in the first year of study), can take advantage of alternative physical education classes taught by qualified masters in physiotherapy from the AMU Physical Education and Sports Centre. These classes include: swimming lessons, swimming section, therapeutic gymnastics and general fitness classes. The advantage of these classes is the individual approach to the needs and abilities of each student.
More information about adapted physical education classes.

Sports and recreation camps organised by the Physical Education and Sports Centre (SWFiS)

Sports and recreation camps organised by the SWFiS in seaside or mountain resorts, as well as the Integration Canoe Rafting, which is attended by both disabled and non-disabled students.
For more information, visit the SWFiS website.

Section of sport for students with disabilities

The Physical Education and Sports Centre runs a sports section, where students with disabilities prepare for sports competitions in the series of the AZS Polish Integration Championships - in various disciplines, e.g. bowling, swimming, bocci or goalball.
Further information on the SWFiS website.

Scholarship for persons with disabilities

Student applying for a disability grant generates an application in USOSweb, then submits it along with a copy of the disability or incapacity certificate to the appropriate departmental Student Services Office.
More information about financial aid.

Rational Adjustments (RA)

Rational adjustments to the educational process (abbreviated as RA) are available to any AMU student with a disability who receives the appropriate approval from the dean's office of their faculty. Under reasonable adjustments, students can request adaptations in terms of their participation in classes and in the organisation of examinations and credits. The support you may receive under RA will not result in a reduction in academic requirements.
More information about Reasonable Adjustments.

Teaching assistant

AMU students with disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from the support of a teaching assistant for a person with a disability. A student interested in such assistance independently indicates the person who will fulfil this role. Ideally, such a person should be a classmate or at least someone studying in the same faculty - however, this is not a necessary requirement. Where appropriate, a non-student (e.g. a family member) may be an assistant. The assistant enters into a contractual agreement with the university through the Support Office for Persons with Disabilities. The assistant is paid monthly on the basis of the assistant's work card submitted.
More information about the teaching assistant.

Support for hard of hearing students

Students and doctoral students who are hard of hearing can benefit, among other things, from the support of a sign language interpreter, adapted English language classes held in the Multimedia Room for Foreign Language Teaching, practical Polish language classes, speech therapy consultations and the rental of FM systems or portable inductophone loops.
More information about support for students who are hard of hearing.

Support for blind and partially sighted students

Students with visual impairments can benefit from the support of the Laboratory of the Audiobook Library (Collegium Novum, Poznan), which adapts teaching materials to the needs of visually impaired and blind students (including Braille printouts and adaptations to various text file formats). The laboratory allows the borrowing of specialised equipment: devices for listening to books in DAISY standard and text files, equipped with a dictaphone, Braille monitors, Braille notebooks with Braille monitors. Computer workstations equipped with high-quality scanners with OCR software, screenreaders and enlargers that enable blind and partially sighted people to work independently are located in libraries on all campuses of the AMU in Poznan. We provide access to the collections of the Academic Digital Library (ADL) - books and academic textbooks processed and adapted into a digital form that can be read with synthetic speech.
More information about support for blind and partially sighted students.

Places in student residences adapted for students with disabilities

AMU has 30 adapted rooms in 8 student residences. All of the rooms meet the requirements for adaptation to the needs of people with disabilities, starting with adequate manoeuvring space, an adapted bathroom with a toilet, suitable furnishings and an intercom with signalling for the non-(hearing) impaired (DS "Jowita" and DS "Zbyszko"). In front of each dormitory with adapted rooms there are parking spaces for people with disabilities.
More information about adapted places in dormitories.

Transport for students with disabilities

Students with a mobility disability who are unable to use public transport independently due to a medical condition may apply for transport services provided by AMU. As part of this support, students are transported from their place of residence (applies to students residing in the City of Poznań, and in justified cases up to 10 km outside the administrative borders of the city) to the place where classes included in the study plan are held. Transport may be granted to students for the whole academic year or only for the winter period, i.e. 1 December - 1 March.
Further information on transport for students with disabilities.

AMU Disabled Students' Association "Ad Astra"

The "Ad Astra" Association is a student organisation that works for the benefit of students with disabilities of its university through numerous actions, events and various forms of assistance aimed specifically at them. At the beginning of each academic year, the Association organises adaptation meetings for first-year students to introduce them to university life and provide them with comprehensive information on the support for students with disabilities offered by AMU. The Association, in cooperation with the Support Office for Persons with Disabilities, organises workshops and training sessions to improve the competences of students with disabilities in various areas.
More information about the "Ad Astra" Association.

Psychological consultant on difficulties in the study process

In the course of the consultation, students can better identify their preferences and predispositions for effective learning, develop appropriate, tailored methods for mastering the study material applicable to them. They can also familiarise themselves with selected learning techniques and try them out in practice. Consultation is also used to build motivation to study, manage time, develop skills to cope with stress in exam and colloquium situations and the build-up of a backlog of studies, as well as other life situations in and out of university.
More information about Psychological Consultant.

AMU Psychological Development and Support Centre

The counselling centre offers a wide range of help in dealing with difficult situations in life on different levels through adaptation to the new university environment, relationships with others, personal and family problems. Visits vary in nature from consultations, programmed meetings for support, crisis intervention to psychotherapy. Meetings for AMU students are free of charge.
For more information visit the UAM Psychological Counselling Service website.

Support Office for Persons with Disabilities

ul. Grunwaldzka 6 pok. 114
60-780 Poznań
tel: 61 829 20 55
bon@amu.edu.pl

Office website: https://amu.edu.pl/studenci/studenci-z-niepelnosprawnosciami

Offices:

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 10:00am - 1:00pm
Wednesday - internal day

Download the guide as a pdf file (40 MB): Information guide for students with disabilities

Download the handbook for academics in PDF (1.3MB): Accessible classes

UAM Rector's Representative for Persons with Disabilities

Mgr Anna Rutz
e-mail: arutz@amu.edu.pl, bon@amu.edu.pl
tel: 61 829 20 55

Senior specialist for people with disabilities

lic. Dominika Hoft
e-mail: dominika.hoft@amu.edu.pl
tel: 61 829 12 10

Senior clerk for people with disabilities

Mgr Agnieszka Janicka
e-mail: agnieszka.janicka@amu.edu.pl
tel: 61 829 22 43

Contacting the university via remote access to a Polish Sign Language interpreter:

Any sign language user who needs to contact the university has the opportunity to do so through the video call service. This is an alternative to a telephone call as an alternative way of contacting university units by remotely accessing a PSL interpreter via the link uam.jns.pl

This service is available on working days between 8:00 am and 6:00 pm, but is subject to the operating hours of individual Offices and University staff.

In addition, 7 points at UAM have special tablets from which you can connect to a sign language interpreter. Below are the locations of the interpretation points:

• Office of Support for Persons with Disabilities,
• Section of Student Affairs,
• Pro Vice-Chancellor for Student Affairs Prof. Dr. Joanna Wójcik,
• BOS of the Faculty of Educational Studies,
• BOS of the Faculty of Law and Administration,
• BOS of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science,
• BOS of the Faculty of Pedagogical and Artistic Studies in Kalisz.

The service is provided by the Support Office for Persons with Disabilities as part of the project "A university open to all - a university for the 21st century", project number POWR.03.05.00-00-A095/19 in order to increase accessibility of administrative services for students and doctoral students with hearing disabilities.