SDG 10. Reduced Inequalities: UzhNU Progress in 2025
In 2025, UzhNU taught and housed people with diverse backgrounds and needs: 311 international students from 41 countries, students from occupied territories, internally displaced persons and members of national minorities. The University improved campus accessibility and won an Erasmus+ project on the integration of displaced students.
Key figures, 2025
| Indicator | Value |
| International students (as of 31 Dec 2025) | 311 from 41 countries |
| IDPs living free of charge in dormitories | 261 |
| Dormitory residents from temporarily occupied territories or combat zones | 102 |
| Erasmus+ project “Bridges of Unity” (integration of displaced students) | EUR 40,850 |
| Dormitories with ramps / with rooms adapted for people with reduced mobility | all / 3 (Nos. 2, 3, 4) |
| Cabinet of Ministers scholarships for gifted students with disabilities | 2 |
Access to education
• Applicants from temporarily occupied territories took entrance examinations remotely; the “Crimea–Donbas–Ukraine” centres and legal consultations for applicants with special admission conditions were available.
• UzhNU trains teachers of Hungarian and Romanian language and literature for national minority communities; it runs the Ukrainian-Hungarian Educational and Research Institute; in 2025 the programme “Physics. Computer Science” taught in Hungarian was accredited.
• The Moodle 4 platform has been adapted to an inclusive approach; international students have a hybrid study format and assistance with transit visas.
Accessibility and inclusion on campus
• All dormitories and most academic buildings have ramps; comments from the representative of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights on shelter accessibility have been addressed.
• For the National Accessibility Week (19–25 May), all units held accessibility sessions based on the Accessibility Handbook.
• The Centre for Innovation and Development ran the game “Mafia of Diversity”, the debate tournament “RivnoPravNi” (Equal Rights), the event “From Strategy to Action: Youth and Accessibility” for NGOs and educational institutions in Uzhhorod, and the simulation game “Unity in Diversity”.
Research and community
• The project “Inclusive CEE: Challenges and Integration of Refugees from Ukraine” on social cohesion and anti-discrimination; “Dynamics of Linguistic Consciousness of Ukrainian Citizens in Conditions of War and Migration” (EUR 12,000).
• The Centre for Innovation and Development took part in a round table on the regional action plan for the Roma national minority for 2026–2027 (3 July) and a webinar on the school-to-work transition for young people with disabilities (17 December).
• In the dormitories, IDPs have the same access to common areas as students.
