Support services for people with disabilities

The Information and Resource Center “Without Barriers” was created, one of the main tasks of which is to organise barrier-free access to information in the physical and virtual environment of the university for people with disabilities.

http://library.kpi.kharkov.ua/en/no_barriers_home

NTU “KhPI” has approved the “Procedure for accompanying (assisting) persons with disabilities and other low-mobility groups”, which ensures their unimpeded access to the University’s objects, convenience and comfort of their stay on the territory of the University, obtaining information taking into account individual capabilities, abilities and interests.

http://public.kpi.kharkov.ua/administrativna-diyalnist/dlya-osib-z-osoblivimi-osvitnimi-potrebami/

The university website contains a table of accessibility to buildings and premises for people with reduced mobility, including people with visual, hearing and musculoskeletal disabilities

http://public.kpi.kharkov.ua/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Dostupnist-do-budivel-ta-primishhen-dlya-malomobilnih-grup-naselennya.pdf

We have a reasonable accommodation policy or strategy for people with disabilities, including adequate funding

According to the “RULES for awarding and paying scholarships to students of the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”

п31. The right to social scholarships is granted

-to children with disabilities and persons with disabilities of groups I-II”;

– students who are visually and hearing impaired have their scholarship increased by 50 per cent;

https://www.kpi.kharkov.ua/ukr/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Polozhenye-o-naznachenye-stypendyy-1.pdf