In its activities, the JU AC is guided by the seven principles of educational support developed by Małgorzata Perdeus-Białek, the Centre’s trainer, and Dagmara Nowak-Adamczyk (now Sendur) together with a team of JU AC educational advisors and made public for the first time in the DARe-Learning project publication 'News on Equality'. The principles have been adopted and disseminated by the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland as a model for the offer of educational support aimed at students with disabilities to other universities implementing the idea of inclusive education. The principles are discussed in detail in the brochure ‘Responsible Support and Sustainable Development’.

The seven principles of educational support

Principle 1. Personalisation

Adaptations of the University study process of persons with disabilities are always prepared in response to their individual educational needs related to the nature of their health circumstances at a given time as well as the specifics of a given University course, including the conditions in which it is delivered.

Principle 2. Empowerment

Respecting the autonomy of persons with disabilities and their right to decide about themselves.

Principle 3. Potential development

Developing the potential of persons with disabilities related to the course of their University studies. This means selecting such adaptations which would let the student acquire knowledge and develop practical skills.

Principle 4. The reasonableness of the accommodation

Suggesting adaptations that are reasonable in economic terms and effectively ensure equal opportunities for a given person as well as maintaining the academic standard.

Principle 5. Maintaining the academic standard

Preparing adaptations without compromising the substantive criteria binding for all the student on a given course/programme.

Principle 6. Adaptations as close as possible to the standard scenario of the course meetings/lectures

Such that are not privileges for persons with disabilities but reasonably ensure equal opportunities for them as regards access to the educational offer considered optimal on a given University programme.

Principle 7. Equal rights and obligations

Focusing not just on exercising equal rights by persons with disabilities but also (thanks to ensuring such rights) on making sure that the students' obligations are fulfilled as they are by their fellow students without disabilities.