Hörsensible Uni

Contact

E-Mail:

Telephone:

0441-24927095

Location:

The office is found in the AStA-wing which is located in the university’s dining hall building – second right-hand floor, second door on the left (room M-1-154).

Post address:

Autonomes Referat für behinderte und chronisch kranke Studierende im AStA der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Uhlhornsweg 49 - 55
26111 Oldenburg

Hörsensible Uni

The project "Hearing Sensitive University of Oldenburg" was founded in January 2006 by a committee of students and academics. In the meantime, an interdisciplinary network of students, graduates, teachers and professional advisors has developed from this initiative. The departments of rehabilitation education, physics, psychology, sociology and education are active in this network.

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The main objective of the Hearing Sensitive University of Oldenburg is to optimise the quality of study and working conditions for all students and staff of the CvO University of Oldenburg. The acoustic framework conditions are reviewed and suggestions for improvements are derived. One result of these activities is two barrier-free group study rooms in the university library, which have been available since April 2010.

In addition, we organise a "Week of Silence" every year and take part in the action day "Day against Noise".

Group study rooms in the library

The barrier-free group study rooms 4.1 and 4.3 are now available in the University Library and can be reserved online:

Special learning environment

Group study rooms in the library renovated

A loud background noise hinders many students in their learning. Quiet permanent background noise and unfavourable room acoustics can significantly impair memory and concentration. Students with hearing impairments are particularly affected, but also students whose mother tongue is not German.

Optimal learning conditions are now provided by the two renovated group study rooms in the library on the Haarentor campus, which were inaugurated at the end of April on the initiative of the "Hearing Sensitive University of Oldenburg" working group in close cooperation with the university library. The costs amounting to s 45,000 were financed from student fees. "The newly designed rooms offer all students, especially those with hearing impairments, the opportunity to study in a more concentrated way because the background noise is muffled," explained Prof. Dr. Gisela Schulze, university lecturer for special and rehabilitation education and spokesperson for the "Hearing Sensitive University".

The group study rooms were measured by an acoustician and designed by an interior designer to be as noise-neutral and barrier-free as possible. The insulation of the walls, a noise-neutral floor and "acousticpearls" - special wall hangings that absorb sounds in the room - ensure optimal room acoustics. The group rooms are also particularly suitable for wheelchair users thanks to height-adjustable tables and furniture suitable for the disabled.

The proposal for the noise-acoustic and barrier-free renovation of the rooms came from students and was applied for by the working group "Hearing Sensitive University" and realised with the support of the Autonomous Department for Disabled and Chronically Ill Students. (tk)

(In the May issue of "Uni-Info")

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Group study rooms in the library

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