What we do
Project
All students should be able to experience international mobility. MINTernship inclusive offers a way for students with disabilities and chronic diseases to access international mobility. Discovering different cultures, languages, research topics and friends allows students to grow personally and academically. Furthermore, international experiences improve job opportunities. Our project aims at enabling students with disabilities and chronic diseases to spend a research stay abroad. We also aim at encouraging important stake holders and Higher Education in general to support inclusive international mobility. This will be done within the framework of the existing MINTernship program for KIT students and international students.
In order to achieve inclusive international mobility, we will take the following measures:
- Adjusting research projects, summer program events and accommodation to student needs to contribute to diversity and inclusion in our mobility programs and institutions
- Offering individual support to our program participants as special needs ask for tailored support, e.g. aids, personal assistance, workplace adjustments, counselling, etc.
- Raising awareness and enabling the involved by offering sensitivity training and counseling for all persons involved
- Offering peer to peer support to program participants and training for student mentors to become inclusion coaches
- Establishing sustainable measures for inclusion by collecting resources, first hand experience reports, best practices, etc.
Project goals
| Offering Support | Reducing barriers for students with disabilities or chronic diseases in finding and successfully realizing internships abroad |
| Gaining Expertise | Gaining experience of inclusive mobility for further development of inclusive international mobility |
| Knowledge Transfer | Sharing processes, best practice examples, does and dont's with other universities in Baden-Württemberg |
