Students with impairments, disabilities or illnesses
Counselling service in English possible
Information online for students with disabilities, impairments and/or chronical diseases are currently not fully available in English.
Counselling of the "Accessible Studying team (Team Barrierefrei)" is held in German and English. Students can contact the team via E-Mail, during the phone counselling times or in the personal counselling times, which can be found (in German) under "Informationsangebote und Beratung".
This website provides comprehensive information about accessible studying for students with impairments, disabilities and/or illnesses. The Accessible Studying Team uses the term "students with impairments" as a short form. This term includes all persons belonging to the target group.
Do not hesitate to ask if you are not sure whether you belong to the target group!
You can find further information on the following pages:
- Changes to modes of assessment
- Providing evidence of an impairment (in German)
- Information offers and counselling
- Support
- Technical equipment
- Contact points (in German)
- Financial issues (in German)
- Legal framework
- Current information and deadlines (in German)
- Leave of absence due to an illness/disability (in German)
- Incoming students with impairments (e.g. Erasmus)
Target group
Persons who experience disadvantages during their studies due to e.g.
- disabilities,
- physical and/or motor impairments,
- sensory impairments,
- mental impairments,
- chronic illnesses,
- autistic perception,
- dyslexia,
- acute illnesses, injuries, consequences of an accident
- or similar conditions.
Who does not belong to the target group?
Persons who experience difficulties that have no medically verifiable cause, such as
- language barriers (e.g. language of instruction is not the first language) or
- (general) organisational difficulties, fatigue or similar issue.
How many students are affected?
About 14 % of students at the University of Vienna indicate that they experience disadvantages during their studies (Student Social Survey 2015 of the IHS). This corresponds to about 14,000 persons at the University of Vienna.
Covid-19 information
Current information and changes
- Bringing assistants/interpreters to courses (room capacitities) (in German): Please inform your teachers yourself.
- Still no services on site:
- Counselling: longer hours of telephone counselling and new counselling offer via chat instead of personal counselling sessions
- It is currently not possible to borrow technical devices from the Accessible Studying Team. Support offers that can be held online continue to take place.
- Changes to exam and teaching operations: continue to apply; partly also for members of groups at increased risk
- Special measures due to COVID-19 (in German)
