INTEGRATION OF DISABILITY IN FINAL DEGREE PROJECTS RELATED TO GREEN AREAS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE SERVICE-LEARNING PROJECT: “COLABORA A LA PAR”

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.55832923140810

• Palavras-chave: intellectual disability, universal design, inclusion, green areas, service-learning.

• Keywords: intellectual disability, universal design, inclusion, green areas, service-learning.

• Abstract:

  Within the framework of the Service-Learning project "Colabora A LA PAR", this being the starting point, work has been done on accessibility for people with disabilities in public spaces with the students of the ETSI Agronomic, Food and Biosystems of Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain). Within the project, approved in the 2021 call, different activities were carried out both inside and outside the classroom: seminars, curricular practices, End of Degree Projects, design of garden equipment adapted to physical disabilities and visits to inclusive orchards. This study focuses on the Final Degree Projects carried out in the last two academic years in the degrees of Agricultural Engineering and Food Engineering. The objective is to generate a social awareness in engineering students that allows the integration of people with disabilities in the area of agricultural and food engineering in the future through universal design and the possible hiring of personnel from this group in the facilities designed. The A LA PAR Foundation has served as the central axis to carry out several of the Final Degree Projects, proposing in some cases improvements in its facilities (orchards and greenhouses) and incorporating, in the management of the projects, workers with disabilities.