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UNED motto: Wisdom moves more than anything that moves.

Our thanks to the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sports.

The UNED was born in 1973 with a special commitment: the objective was to facilitate access to higher education to all those who required flexible conditions for study, for their geographical location, for working, for having family responsibilities, or for having some type of disability.

More than 8,000 students with disabilities have enrolled at UNED during the academic year 2017-2018.

The UNED 2018 Strategic Plan includes:

•       Responsibility, and promotion in innovation, and research applied to the development of environments, products, services, and services that guarantee the principles of inclusion, universal accessibility, design for all, and independent living in favour of people with disabilities, or in situations of dependency

•         Strengthen access, permanence, success, and employability of students with disabilities.

•         Strengthen awareness, promotion, and training towards diversity, full inclusion, and equal opportunities.

Centre for Attention of University Students with Disabilities (UNIDIS) functions:

•         Information advice, and guidance to the university community.

•         Management of accommodations of the teaching-learning, and evaluation processes to the needs derived from disability, or functional diversity.

•         Training, and teaching support: Development of awareness, and training actions aimed at the university community.

•         Accessibility: Coordination of actions to improve physical accessibility, and ICT.

•         Employment: Development of actions to improve the employability of students, and graduates with disabilities.

•         Document management: Information management on disability in the university environment. Accessible resource formats.

Featured Dates:

•         1995: First University in Spain that implemented free registrations for students with disabilities.

•         2000: Creation of the Integration Unit for students with disabilities

•         2005: Creation of the Disability, and Volunteer Unit.

•         2008: Creation of the Centre for Attention to University Students with Disabilities (UNIDIS).

Registrations according to types of studies (Year 2017/2018)

•         Access: 889

•         Degree: 6,809

•         Master: 341

•         Languages: 423

•         Doctorate: 39

Students according to the type of disability (Year 2017/2018)

•     Physical: 4,156

•     Psychic: 2,114

•     Hearing: 509

•     Visual: 704

•     Unspecified: 1,882