The conference ULD 2011 in Brno showed the importance of targetting the attention of researchers and developers of technologies providing for people's special needs towards inclusive education. For this reason, the Universal Learning Design conference in Brno and the International Conference on Computer Helping People in Linz, the biggest forum in Europe for presenting assistive technologies, joined their organizing teams. It follows from their agreement that the second year of the conference Universal Learning Design will be held on 11-13 July 2012, as a part of the 13th ICCHP conference as one of its special tracks. The team from Masaryk University will be responsible for technical solutions and organization of the ULD 2012 conference at Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria.

If you wish to give a paper at the ULD conference, you can apply either at the ULD website or at the ICCHP conference website – please specify that you are applying for the ULD special track. If you would like to publish the results of your research in the ICCHP proceedings (to be published by Springer), you will be guided to the ICCHP registration form where you will be able to indicate this; your contribution will then be reviewed by ICCHP. Contributions that aim at sharing good practice, presenting teaching methods etc. will be assessed independently and published in separate proceedings of the ULD conference, as was the case with ULD Brno 2011.