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National ALTITUDE Adoption Day!
March 20th 2026.
In April 2025, the first National Adoption Day was held for ALTITUDE – the National Charter for Universal Design in Tertiary Education.
A significant number of higher education institutions (HEIs) and education and training boards (ETBs) adopted on or around that day, and several more have done so over the course of 2025. As of Dec 2025, 20 tertiary education institutions/organisations in total have adopted and begun implementation of the ALTITUDE Charter.
Through our engagements with ETBs and HEIs, we know that many more are strongly considering adoption and working through what it would mean for their organisations and what governance structures would need to be created/amended in order to implement it. If you are one of them, then you are in the right place!
On March 20th, 2026, aligning with the second day of the inaugural ALTITUDE Summit, the project team partners are encouraging all tertiary institutions who have yet to adopt but are ready to do so in or around that date, to release a public web statement declaring:
- their support for and adoption of the ALTITUDE Charter.
- their support for a national call to action for institutions and agencies to work towards a more universally designed tertiary education system
This is essentially a mass communications exercise which will:
- display a collective cross-tertiary commitment to universal design
- raise awareness about ALTITUDE and signal your intent to join the growing number of institutions strongly committing to embed a universal design approach
- encourage other institutions and agencies to support this effort. We are working to engage with national agencies to echo this sentiment via statements of their own.
We have prepared all of the information you need to consider adoption and communicate your commitment on March 26th below, as well as the communications pack below to make sharing your adoption on your website and socials as pain free as possible.