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Preparing Universities to Cooperate with Neuroatypical Students: Second Partners’ Meeting in Riga, Latvia

The second transnational meeting of the Erasmus+ Project: ‘Preparing Universities to Cooperate with Neuroatypical Students’ (Project 2024-1-PL01-KA220-HED-000245082) was successfully held at the Riga Technical University, in Riga, Latvia, on 15th and 16th September 2025.

Building on the momentum of the inaugural meeting in Wroclaw, Poland,  the partners gathered to review the project’s progress and discuss the next steps in its implementation.

The meeting opened with a presentation and discussion of the results from the primary research carried out by each partner institution. This research included in-depth interviews with university administrators, survey responses from students, and focus group insights from academic tutors. The findings provided a comprehensive view of the current practices, challenges, and opportunities for supporting neuroatypical students in higher education.

Following the review of research results, significant time was dedicated to the creation of the project’s guide — a key intellectual output aimed at equipping universities with practical strategies, tools, and recommendations to foster inclusive and supportive environments for neuroatypical students. The consortium engaged in collaborative discussions to finalize the structure, key themes, and methodological approach of the guide.

In addition, the partners focused on dissemination activities, outlining strategies to effectively communicate the project’s aims, findings, and outputs to stakeholders across Europe. The discussion covered the use of institutional channels, social media, academic conferences, and professional networks to maximize the reach and impact of the project results.

The meeting concluded with an agreement on the timeline for the next stages of the project, including the drafting and peer review of the guide, as well as the planning of upcoming workshops.

The partners agreed that the next consortium meeting will be hosted by the University of Presov, and will take place in Presov, Slovakia in March 2026.

Preparing Universities to Cooperate with Neuroatypical Students: Kick-off meeting in Wroclaw, Poland

The inaugural meeting for the Erasmus+ Project: ‘Preparing Universities to Cooperate with Neuroatypical Students’ took place at the Campus of the Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, in Wroclaw, Poland on 13th and 14th March 2025. 

On day one of the kick-off meeting the partners proceeded with a presentation of their universities before discussing and confirming the protocol that shall govern consortium members’ cooperation and communication. Then, project implementation rules and milestones were presented and confirmed by the partners. Following approval of the project’s governance, the discussion moved to the consideration of the procedures that partner universities follow in the management of neurodiverse students and academic staff. Further, published best practices that other than the partner Universities in Europe implement were presented and discussed. Work packages were then articulated in detail, followed by an allocation of their implementation to the partners.

On day two, methodological matters that are centrally concerned with the implementation of work packages were discussed, and it was agreed that such research tools as the following will be deployed: in-depth interviews with university administration, a survey questionnaire for students, and focus groups with academic tutors. Finally, the rules and steps to be involved in the dissemination of the project’s findings were discussed and agreed.

During the second day of the partners meeting, it was agreed that the next partners' meeting shall take place in Riga, Latvia on 15-16th September 2025.