The Universitat de València is the university with the highest number of selected candidates in the IV Call for the Grants of the Universia Capacitas Foundation, with 22 students with disabilities, what means the 14% of the total number of candidates, according to the announcement made by Universia Foundation. This Foundation has awarded grants to 160 university students from all Spain.
The Unit for the Integration of People with Disabilities is the service in charge of providing attention to the students, professors and administration and services staff of the Universitat de València: the on-site academic institution with the highest number of students with functional diversity in Spain (1,071 registered students in 2015-2016 academic year). The Universitat de València also is one of the three first Spanish universities that created a support service to people with disabilities in the 1992-1993 academic year; and is the first and only Spanish university that has a Regulation of Measures for the Integration of Teaching and Research Staff with functional diversity since 2007.
One of the main functions of this Unit, which manages the General Foundation of the Universitat de València, is “the maximum spreading of aids and grants that can favour the continuity of students in the Universitat”, points out the director of the service, Celeste Asensi; as, among its aims, there is “supporting families with difficulties to make effective the socio-educative inclusion for everyone”, she adds.
Assignment of the Grans
In the 2015-2016 edition of the Capacitas Programme, Universia Foundation has destined 200,000 Euros for grants, with the final objective of identifying early diverse talent for a posterior incorporation into the labour market, through an internship or a job vacancy.
On this occasion, 517 applications of students with disabilities have been presented, from which 160 (72 women and 76 men) have been selected in all the Spanish territory. The Universitat de València has been the academic institution with the highest number of selected candidates, with a total of 22, followed by Carlos III University of Madrid, University of Oviedo and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, with seven selected students in each one, that is to say, the 4%. In the third position we can find the Autonomous University of Madrid, Complutense University of Madrid and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, with six selected students respectively (4%).
On the other hand, the degrees with highest presence in this call have been Business Management and Administration and Law (20%), Medicine (8%), Psychology (4%), School Education (3%) and Social Education, Nursing and Translation and Interpretation (2% each of them).
The awarded grants have been distributed by modality: 18 of Access, 114 of Progress, 22 of Mobility, and 6 for athletes.
Last update: 15 de january de 2016 13:11.
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