The Representative for students with disability or chronic illness
Contact persons from the Studierendenwerke (student services providers)
Social and Psychological Advisory Service of the Essen-Duisburg Studierendenwerk
Advice from the BZI at the Akafö (Collegiate Support Foundation) in Bochum
This is the central contact person for prospective students, study applicants as well as students with longer lasting or permanent physical or mental disabilities or impairments of the senses. These include chronic somatic and mental illnesses, hearing, sight, speaking, posture and musculoskeletal impairments as well as partial performance and autism spectrum disorders.
The Representative and her Deputy would be delighted to advise and support you in all issues and concerns you have in any disability-related matters arising in relation to your desired or actual study. The aim of the advice is to support you in coping with your study and – together with you – find suitable solutions for your specific situation.
Advice can be given by email, telephone or in person during consultation hours. On request, it is possible in German and in English. We can also often provide you with initial rough information on a study with disabilities without you having to give your name or specifying your disability (e.g. general examples for compensation for disadvantage suffered).
Possible consulting topics are
To ensure a timely processing of your requests the representative and her deputy answer them together as a team – and ask you to use the following shared e-mail address: beeintraechtigt-studieren(at)folkwang-uni.de
Department Studies and International Affairs | Student advisory service
_Representative for Students with Disability or Chronic Illness
+49 (0)201_4903-384 | Thursdays: +49 (0)201_6505-1434
Digitality & Transfer | Consultant Digitalisation of the Administration
_Deputy Representative for Students with Disability or Chronic Illness
Joint IT Department of Art and Music Universities of NRW | Assistance CIO
Please note that the representative shares an office with the student advisory service at the Werden Campus. If you would like a private discussion, then please explicitly mention this when requesting an appointment. This makes it possible to organise an appropriate discussion room.
Within the framework of the Social and Psychological Advisory Service, the Studierendenwerk also provides special advisory services for students with disabilities – particularly on issues relating to assistance for disability reasons in everyday university life. Here you will receive advice and support in the following aspects:
The contact partner for a study with disability and/or chronic illness in the Studierendenwerk is Mr Harald Kaßen.
The Advisory Centre on the Inclusion of Disabled Persons (BZI) of the Collegiate Support Foundation, public law institution (Akafö) supports disabled and chronically ill students in their efforts at achieving equality in relation to the subject of study. Possible consulting topics include:
Further information on the service and the contact partners is available on the Akafö pages.