Description
Aim of the event: 
  • Promote mobility
  • Raise Awareness
  • Make ESN Accessible
Goal of the event: 
Our main goal with Language Cafe event was promote mobility for students with disabilities as well as raise the awareness in the local community. We tried to provide opportunities for students with disabilities to actively participate in student life.
Short description of the event: 
ESN Hasselt organized a Language Cafe event during the ExchangeAbility Week. Since it was ExchangeAbility project we tried to change the concept of the language cafe. First of all, we divided the participants in different language groups. Such as; English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish and Turkish. We distributed them different types of disability topics to talk about in different languages. Aferwards, they had opportunity to talk about their experiences and advise each other how might we support these students who has disabilities.
At the end of the our event we also tried to provide them relevant information about the project and how can we encourage the students with disabilities to go on exchange.
How did your event go?: 
During the event we raised the awareness and promoted the mobility for students with disabilities. According to the feedbacks from the participants, the event was one of the best event of the year.
Involvement
Number of international students: 
20
Number of "locals" involved: 
5
Number of ESNers involved: 
4
Persons with disabilities joining the event: 
No
ExchangeAbility Project - ESN Hasselt
Date of the event: 
Thu, 01/12/2016
Duration of the event: 
5hours
Scope: 
Local