| Institution: | University of Coimbra |
| Name of the tool: | Training sessions helping students facing school and studying contexts |
| Key actors: | Students with special needs Students Support office Social services Technical staff |
| State of the tool: | Consolidated |
| Student's areas involved: | Attending lessons Studying Having an exam and practical course/internship Dealing with professor and administrative staff Relation with supporting staff Peers relations Social life |
| Description of the tool: |
Among the universe of students, there is a target group that is in a sort of "limbo" betwwen those whose impairments are visible, so better understood despite the difficulties to manage with them and the others seen as "Normal" ones but that sometimes have effectively more needs than the others, mainly because sometimes they don't accept the fact that they have impairments or difficulties that prejudices their studies and their daily life in general. Among those are mainly students developing mental problems, sometimes caused by the stress of facing a new challenge in their lives with the transition to HE. To help these students and the students in general, the Unit for Integration and Counselling promotes semestraly training sessions in several themes to help the students reaching methodologies of study, preventing stress towards evaluations, peer relations and others |
| User manual: |
This tool is evaluated through the participation of students in those sessions, by the deliverance of an inquiry as well as the number of participants involved. |