QuaBIS  "Qualification of Education and Inclusion Experts"

Since May 2019, there have been education and inclusion experts at the TUD. At the beginning, we were called education specialists, but we have changed our name.

QuaBIS means "Qualification of Education and Inclusion Officers in Saxony" and is an acronym in German.

In the QuaBIS project, people with experience of disability work from Monday to Friday. We do a kind of training at the TUD and learn how to combine our knowledge with topics that are important, for example, for teacher education.

We learn and work at the same time. The project also exists in Leipzig. What is special about this project is that we are part of the university. We are part of committees, do research and design our own seminars.

In this way, we influence knowledge and help the TUD to implement the requirements of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Our work shows that inclusion is necessary everywhere and how it can work. Not only at university and not only for disabled people. For this to happen, a lot has to change. Change comes about by asking questions. The answers are found by looking for solutions together.

Our project wants to change the conditions together with others so that everyone can participate and without disadvantages for other people.

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Aims of the QuaBIS project

• The project should become a permanent part of the university and remain an integral part of teaching.
• Open up opportunities for a change of perspective and to expand knowledge.
• Provide advice and support for the further development of teaching and other existing forms of educational work.

• Discover structures that exclude people and work together to change and dismantle them.

• Implementation of Article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD).

• Show how inclusion can succeed for all people.

• Impact and further development of knowledge based on a broad appreciation of diversity.

• Demonstrate that diversity is a self-evident fact. It is the basis for mutual development  - in different areas in different ways.

• Finding common ground that connects people rather than highlighting differences that make cooperation impossible.

• Shaping university and social change.

This project is financed by tax funds using the budget approved by the Landtag of the Free State of Saxony.