MappED! Inclusive Mobility

MappED! was a social project that aimed at improving the everyday life of students with disability by creating an online platform that would provide information on support services and mobility opportunities.

Funding Scheme

Programme: Erasmus+

Key Action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Action Type: Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Aims and General Description

With the purpose of improving the mobility opportunities and experience of exchange students with disabilities, the project developed a platform that included:

• an interactive online map indicating the accessibility level of European Higher Education Institutions, campuses around Europe, city centres and much more;
• the possibility to map the accessibility level of their University, their favourite shop in town or their usual coffee shop in few clicks only;
• the ability to interact with the platform via a mobile application for smartphone and participate to the social experiment anywhere, anytime;
• information about mobility programmes, supplementary grants, support services and procedures for students with disability how to apply for a mobility period abroad.

MappED! also created a series of training events and conferences to encourage students with disability to go abroad and to foster the cooperation between Disability Office – International Relation Office – Students with disability, the three key actors to finally raise the percentage of students with disability taking part in the Erasmus+ Programme.

The project nowadays

MappED! is no longer available and has been replaced by a brand new platform called InclusiveMobility.eu created by the EPFIME Erasmus+ project consortium. The EPFIME project consortium leveraged the data collected throughout the years and integrated them into the InclusiveMobility.eu which includes further features and a broader scope Please visit inclusivemobility.eu to explore the platform and its inclusive mobility tools.