Activities carried out by UNITBV within the IncEdu project, aimed at developing centres for students with special needs and establishing new collaboration agreements
In March 2023 the team of Transilvania University of Brasov within the Erasmus+ project "Developing Inclusive Education for Students with Disabilities in Sri Lankan Universities" (IncEdu), through the ERASMUS programme (2018/C 384/04): 609871-EPP-1-2019-1-LK-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP carried out a visit to partner universities in Sri Lanka.
On this occasion, working meetings were held at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka Technological Campus and the University of Ruhuna to identify the status of implementation of activities and centres developed for students with special needs and to establish new collaborative agreements and Erasmus-type partnerships.
Thus, on 14.03.2023 a meeting was organized at the University of Peradeniya, Faculty of Arts, with the Dean of the Faculty Dr. E.M.P.C.S. Ekanayake and members of the IncEdu project and with the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Peradeniya, Professor MD. Lamawansa. Also at the same time, there was a presentation of the centre for students with special needs developed under the IncEdu project, discussions with the staff employed in the centre and other faculty members of the Faculty of Arts. This was followed by a meeting with the Head of the Department of Sociology, Dr. W. M. S. M. Kumari Thoradeniya and other faculty members of this department to establish an Erasmus agreement in the field of Sociology and a meeting at the Postgraduate Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (PGIHS) with the Director of the centre, Professor S.J.S. de Mel.
On 16 March the meeting was held at the Sri Lanka Technological Campus with the Director of Research and International Affairs, Dr. Nanda Gunawardhana and the IncEdu project team. Also on that occasion, there was a presentation of the centre for students with special needs developed within the IncEdu project, discussions with the staff working in the centre and with other teachers at the Sri Lanka Technological Campus.
The last visits were organized at the University of Ruhuna, which consisted of a series of actions: meeting with the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ruhuna, Senior Prof. Sujeewa Amarasena and signing a partnership agreement between the two institutions; meeting with the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Prof. Upali Pannilage and participating in a campus visit programme; meeting with the teaching staff of the Department of Sociology to establish an Erasmus agreement in the field of Sociology; presentation of the centre for students with special needs developed within the IncEdu project, discussions with the staff of the centre and other teaching staff of the University of Ruhuna, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
