Tempus Project
Support and Inclusion of students with disabilities at higher education institutions in
Montenegro
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Participants:
Ivana Ognjanovi ć, PhD - UNIM
Srdjan Jovanovski, PhD - UNIM
Dragica Anđelić, MSc - UNIM
Jelena Janković, PhD - UNIM
Sanja Živković, MA - UNIM
Sonja Boji ć - UNIM
Milena Đekić - UNIM
Velibor Boskovic - AYDM
Miroslava Mima Ivanovic - AYDM
Enes Banda - UDG
Participants: Prospective students with disabilities and their parents
Ivana Ognjanović, PhD made comprehensive introduction to students and parents about results of the project in the past three years. She explained all technical and administrative aspects that are implemented. She highlighted the importance of integration of student services on universities and AYDM and also explained to participants about way of usage of Student advisory office. She explained the ways how office helps students and what are obligations of each faculty of UNIM.

Tempus Project
Support and Inclusion of students with disabilities at higher education institutions in
Montenegro
Presented participants had multiple questions.
First of all they were interested in rules of studying and Dragica An đelić, MSc explaind them to participants. She noted that UNIM is first and at the moment the only private university that offer free scholarship for students with hendicap. Also she said that each building from the UNIM is accessible for students with disability. Also it is noted that UDG is accessible. Dragica explained that students with disability will have free scholarship througout primary studies even if they do not pass all the exams needed to pass to second (third) year of studying.
Participants had questions about faculty enrollment, and Dragica have explained what are the rules.
Participants were very interested in studying process. Ivana explained in detailes what is practice in Faculty of Information Technology. She explained what are the topic covered by Faculty and what is expected from the students. She made very colorful presentation of usage of modern technologies on UNIM. She presented elearning platform which is very useful for students becouse it allws them to listen, or watch lectures whenever they want and as many time as they need.
Ivana also presented teaching material that is adopted for students with hearing and vision defects. During the project two books, one from the area of economy and one from the area of law are adopted. Students can use special equipement that is avaliable to students with disability. Teaching materials is adopted with usage of the equipement. Also she highlighted that each professor and assitant has pass courses

Tempus Project
Support and Inclusion of students with disabilities at higher education institutions in
Montenegro for work with students with dissability and they are all trained how to prepare materials for the students with specific dissability.
Parents had numeorus questions. Esspecialy there were questions about personal assistant to students with hearing and vision defect. At the moment UNIM does not have possibility to provide personal assistant for students. Up the now practice was that AYDM have provided certain number of personal assistants. Becouse AYDM is finansed from projects and other founds which are not realiable sources of financing, the number of personal assistants that can be hired vary from year to year. So
Velibor explained that AYDM hire as much assistants as they can and then they assign them to the most needed individuals.
Also Velibor and Mima have presented the work od the AYDM and their contribution to project. Also they encouraged future students to know what are their rights. Mima has explainde the process of studying at the State University and also explained how students can use dorms and what capacities are adopted to students with dissabiilities. Also Velibor has explained what is the role of the Student Advisory
Office and how it is connected to universities. They explained ways of partitipation to students with dissavility and explained to parents what are the benefits of being member of the Office.
Parents and students were interested in studying processes at faculties of the
University Mediterranean so vice dean from Montenegro Bussines School, Jelena
Janković, PhD explained how is studyding at the Facuty. She also talked about their experience in work with students with dissability and she was able to tell us opinions of the students with dissability about studying and their experience at the Faculty.

Tempus Project
Support and Inclusion of students with disabilities at higher education institutions in
Montenegro
Also Sonja Bojić from the Students Office of the Faculty of Foreign Languages explained plan and programme of the Faculty. She noted what is basic programe and explained all possible variation at the studying process.
Neka from Faculty of Law explained to participants what are the topics at the Faculty and how the studying process is conducted. Participants were interested to know about examination process at Faculties. Law faculty has part of the exam that has to be oral. It was very important for students becouse depending on dissability some of them could easier do oral or written exam.
Parents were talking about problems their children have already encountered durin education. About their personal problems and problems with educational system which is not completely adopted to students with dissability. Also there was fear that some thing are good only on paper but in practice that there will not be any improvement of the current state in high education.
Dragica has noted that each professor or assistant at the UNIM is already very dedicated to students and if there is need for additional explanation of the learnig materials. In that way any additional help considering learning topics already exist at the University so there is no need for personal assistant for that part of learning process. It is noted that presence of the personal assistant will be needed in a case that student with dissability has problem to perceive lessons.
Prepared by: Ivana Ognjanovi ć and Srđan Jovanovski, Mediterranean Univeristy