Accessibility at the Viadrina

Accessibility at the Viadrina

The Counselling Service for Students with Health Impairments is committed to improve accessibility and reduce barriers – both infrastructural barriers and those resulting from institutional procedures or forms of communication.With the goal of creating equal opportunities. We are happy to work with you to remove any barriers that appear in your everyday student life due to your disability.

Find information on accessibility and facilities at Viadrina University below. If you have any further questions about accessibility at our university, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Building accessibility

The entrances to the Auditorium Maximum building (AM), the Gräfin-Dönhoff building (GD), the Logenhaus (LH, entrance on the side of the car park in Heinrich-von-Stephan-Straße) and the Language Centre in August-Bebel-Straße (AB) are equipped with electric door opners. The support of staff or an accompanying person is required in the main building (Hauptgebäude; HG).

All university buildings have accessible sanitary facilities. Accessible flats can be rented in the student residences of the Studierendenwerk Frankfurt (Oder).

Next to the GD building, for Blue Badge holders or people with a mobility impairment who hold an orange (regional) parking permit. Two of these parking spaces can be found in Logenstraße and the other two in Fischerstraße. Additional parking spaces are available on the grounds of the Language Centre in August-Bebel-Straße. The tram stop “Witzlebenstraße” right next to the Language Centre is not accessible yet. It is not possible to get on and off here with wheelchairs or rollators, for example. Please contact the Counselling Service for Students with Health Impairments in time to arrange for the course to be transferred to an accessible building if it is very difficult or impossible for you to attend courses at the language centre.

Site plans and information on mobility

Tools and aids

Workplace for visually impaired students: The University has a workplace for visually impaired students in the Language Centre (August-Bebel-Straße, Self-Study Centre, room 016). It is equipped with a computer (Windows 10, Office 20216) with voice output, a 24-inch screen, a 21-inch desktop video magnifier and a printer.

Lockers: Students who are unable to carry books and other seminar materials with them at all times due to physical impairments have the opportunity to use a locker at the University Library for longer periods of time and to lock up their work materials there.

Laptops for exams: Students with health impairments may use a laptop set up for examinations (with an external keyboard, PC mouse and/or headset if required) if required. The Counselling Service for Students with Health Impairments provides this laptop by prior arrangement.

Wheelchair-accessible tables: On request, the Counselling Service for Students with Health Impairments can provide mobile, wheelchair-accessible, height- and tilt-adjustable sit-stand desks – including larger desks (120 x 70 cm) for seminar rooms and smaller desks (80 x 60 cm) for lecture halls..

Seat cushion/lounger: Students with disabilities who have difficulty sitting for a longer examination can be provided with a seat cushion (coccyx cushion) or a lounger with adjustable backrest (with a laptop table if required) upon coordination.

Lift function app: Most of the lifts at Viadrina have sensors that show users the operating status of the lifts via the wheelmap.org app thanks to the Sozialhelden e.V. association. This lift information makes it very easy to check from home whether a particular lift is working and, in the event of malfunctions, to reschedule accordingly if the planned course room is not accessible (e.g. request for alternative digital participation).

Microphones/broadcasts: Larger seminar rooms and all lecture theatres are equipped with microphones. Video and audio transmissions are possible in the lecture halls, the Logensaal, the Audimax lecture hall and the HG 162, HG 217, AM 104, and GD 102 seminar rooms by arrangement and with the consent of the respective lecturers. Audio transmissions via IR receiver are possible by appointment in the Audimax lecture theatre and the Logensaal. A radio transmitter-receiver system can be provided for mobile use..

Barrier-free counselling

Office hours

Telephone consultation hours:
Wednesday 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. (by telephone)

Open consultation hours:
Thursday 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. (on site, room AM 113)

and by appointment (on site, by telephone or online)

Please note: Starting from April 24th, 2025, the open consultation hours will be from 9 - 11 a.m.. Consultation hours on May 15 and July 2 are canceled.