Targeted study support

The university must be accessible to everyone. Uppsala University offers a wide variety of support and services to students and doctoral students with disabilities. Targeted pedagogical support is a collective term for these supports and adjustments. The support entails different forms of initiatives and measures to remove, compensate or overcome obstacles that could arise in connection with studying.

At Uppsala University, approximately 2,700 students have been granted targeted study support. Students who have been granted support must have a contact person in their department.

To be granted targeted study support, the student's disability must be documented in accordance with the Swedish Discrimination Act's definition:

Disability means permanent physical, mental or intellectual limitation of a person’s functional capacity that as a consequence of injury or illness existed at birth, has arisen since then or can be expected to arise.

A temporary illness or injury does not qualify a student to receive support or help for that disability. In such cases, the student is advised to seek support at their own department.

The targeted study support is based on the Discrimination Act and the form of discrimination "inadequate accessibility". That means that a person with a disability is disadvantaged through a failure to take measures for accessibility to enable the person to come into a situation comparable with that of persons without this disability

As a state authority, Uppsala University also has responsibility in accordance with the ”Förordning om de statliga myndigheternas ansvar för genomförande av funktionshinderspolitiken (SFS 2014:135)".