Action Plan of the TU Dresden on the implementation of the UN CRPD
GeNeral information
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With the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN-CRPD) in 2009, this law is applicable in Germany and one of the central principles for the inclusion of persons with disabilities and chronic diseases. It "concretizes and deepens the general human and fundamental rights at different levels" (Meine Rechte aus der UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention, p. 6).
On 16 May 2017 the Action Plan of the TU Dresden on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was resolved by the Rectorate.
Over the past few years, the TU Dresden has gradually developed into an inclusive university in which the rights of students and employees with disabilities and chronic diseases are strengthened and an opportunity-oriented life at the university is made possible. In order to promote and develop this development in a sustainable way, a university-wide, strategic action plan is a necessary instrument. With its help, existing offers in the field of inclusion of persons with disabilities and chronic diseases of the TU Dresden are recorded, reviewed and, if necessary, adjusted, (further) needs for action identified, future overall university objectives formulated and appropriate measures derived. The implementation and realization of the set goals and associated measures represents a long-term, all-university task. It requires constant updating and review.
The TU Dresden has made it its mission:
- to create a university-specific action plan for the implementation of the UN-CRPD starting in 2015,
- To use top down and bottom up strategies in the development and implementation of the action plan,
- developing it in a broad participatory process, in close cooperation with the Advisory Council Inclusion,
- to identify concrete action fields and measures in the action plan,
- explicitly include the perspective of people with disabilities,
- to use this development process as a prelude to a sensitisation process at the TU Dresden,
- to implement a quality management cycle that documents the success of the measures implemented and makes it possible to make regular adjustments.
