Good Practices & Tools for Profiling Database

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Title: Academic Peer Counseling Programme
Target(s): Learners
Educators
Description of the target(s):

Learners or Educators with Disability who want to pursue a career in the field of academic peer counselling

Profiling method: Pre-information meeting + oral interview
Information collected: Information on disabilities and health problems - Personal background - General biographical information
Description:

The GP is targeting a specific group of learners as well of educators as peers: Learners with Disability who want to pursue a career in the field of academic peer counselling. Alumnis of the course are qualified to combine their own experiences of their diverse life situations with their skills in the field of counseling as a basis for successful peer counseling.

The practice is developed by FH Joanneum, Department of Social Work, in Graz, Austria. 

Interested people need to have a pre-information meeting with an association or social institution dealing with their particular diverse background with regard to disabilities and health problems. Afterwards generic information about the fellow is collected through a oral interview with at least one regional expert institution in the field of representing groups with disabilities and health problems.

Diversity dimension according to Erasmus+ priorities: disabilities, health problems, barriers linked to discrimination.

Peer Counseling can be transferred to other spheres of diversity.

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More information: https://www.fh-joanneum.at/akademische-peer-beraterin-akademischer-peer-berater/academic_certificate_programme/en/
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