The ONCE Foundation and University
We are convinced that in order to move forward in the full inclusion of persons with disabilities we must make it easier for them to access to university education, increase the number of persons with disabilities in higher education and promote their professional inclusion in technical and skilled jobs.
The ONCE Foundation develops the following programmes and initiatives:
International Congress 'University and Disability”
Every two years, the ONCE Foundation organises the International Congress 'University and Disability', where ideas, strategies and good practices of inclusive universities, prepared to meet the challenges of the 21st century, are debated.
University Programme
The ONCE Foundation, with the collaboration of the European Social Fund, has launched a university training programme aimed at young persons with intellectual, developmental and/or autistic spectrum disabilities, which allows them to access university and study a separate degree in social and labour skills in order to approach employment and promote their autonomy and personal development.
The programme takes place in universities throughout the country through an annual call for applications and all universities and is open for participation to all young persons with an intellectual disability between 18 and 30 years of age who are registered in the national youth guarantee system.
Por Talento Digital Programme
Por Talento Digital is one of our training programmes in digital skills and technological professions of the ONCE Foundation. The Foundation is permanent, it allows persons with disabilities to be trained in the digital sphere and to become qualified, and it favours the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the labour market in this much needed and highly demanded area.
Grants programme
Programmes for persons with disabilities to promote higher education, specialisation, language skills, competitive sport, research and paid academic internships in companies.
These scholarship programmes are co-financed by the European Social Fund and some corporate sponsors.
- Por Talento Digital Grants: individual training grants within the framework of the Por Talento Digital Programme to implement training actions in the technological and digital field.
- Oportunidad al Talento Grants: grants for university students with disabilities in the following categories: master’s and postgraduate courses, international mobility, studies and sport, vocational training, research and PhD studies.
- Grants for Languages Abroad: grants for language courses abroad for young people between 18 and 29 years of age.
- ONCE-CRUE Foundation Grants: grants for paid external academic internships for university students in their final years.
- Alumni Grants: specific grants to study at the University of Navarre and at the Carlos III University of Madrid.
- United World Schools grants to study the baccalaureate abroad.