Studentinfo
Study in Sweden
On the following address you will find an English language site with overall student information on studying in Sweden: www.studyin.sweden.se
Study Abroad Without Limits - Calling all Students with Disabilities: www.studyabroadwithoutlimits.eu
The coordinators for students with disabilities
At all universities and institutions of higher education there is a contact person/coordinator, working with issues relating to educational support for students with disabilities. To find the names and contact ways to the individual coordinators at the universities in Sweden, see the link above to the page "coordinators".
Exchange studies in Sweden?
The Swedish students are advised to make contact as soon as possible with the coordinator for students with disabilities at the university they are applying to. This is also essential advice for foreign exchange students requiring educational support. Make contact as early as possible!
Each university and higher education institution offers educational support to students with disabilities but each decides what form that support is to take. There are frequently possibilities to receive various individual support measures, although their availability cannot be promised to all students in all study programmes. An exchange student interested in a specific Swedish university should therefore approach its co-ordinator in order to discuss practical solutions to the student’s individual conditions.
Examples of often available services:
sign language interpreting
note-taking help
IT-support
extra teaching and tuition
alternative examination forms, such as:
- oral rather than written exams (or vice versa)
- extended time for exams
mentors
individually tailored syllabuses
The Discrimination Act
From the spring in 2002 and until new years 2008/09, an Equal Treatment of Students in Universities Act was in force in Sweden. Since the first of January 2009, a new Discrimination Act embraced and replaced this Equal treatment Act as well as other acts in the field of equality and and antidiscrimination. The purpose of the Discrimination Act is to combat discrimination and in other ways promote equal rights and opportunities regardless of sex, transgender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability, sexual orientation or age. For more information on the Act, see the website of the newly installed Equality Ombudsman: www.do.se
