Networking with the different levels and actors at university and on the local environment (social services, housing, etc.) is considered as a key-principle in dealing with disabled students' needs.

This means a constant contact and cooperation with the different "nodes" into the network, in the very centre of whom there is the student as a free agent with her/his needs and her/his life project.

Tasks and responsibilities are shared within the network, according - once again - to a logic of in of anti-specialism. In Bologna case, some nodes of the network act within the same Service, with part-time duties there (i.e. an educator of the health services). 

The logic of network rather than a narrowly sectorial one is suitable in any case; but it's especially recommended (whether not compulsory) in all conditions featured by poor conditions of resources, facilities, services: indeed, it allows an optimal and effective management of available resources and the cooperative effort in coping with the existing limitations.

The construction of the network, i.e. the inclusion of new nodes, may be promoted by the need to meet a given actual need or by a preliminary work motivated by the potential benefit of having that "node" included in the network.  

In both cases, the connections between the "centre" of the network and the different nodes, should be kept functioning and existing, even if concrete situations of action/intervention are not immediately available.

It stands to reason how, the building of an effective network results from an in-depth and wide knowledge of actors, resources and determinants featuring a given context/territory.

The Service for disabled students (or any equivalent organization) should act as promoter and builder of a network in order to improve the chance for a disabled student, to have her/his needs met in all area of her/his life and especially those related to university. But what has to be clear is that the network is plastic and flexible and has to be adapted as much as possible, to the single student (or the general "user") and to her/his needs, capabilities and aspirations.  

The concept herein explained was mainly described within a local context/territory. But it has also to be intended (and applied) at any either regional, national, international level whenever suitable (e.g. for a student mobility abroad; or for an exchange of good practices as it is the case of EADHE Project)