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As an official Sponsorship Agreement Holder in Canada, WUSC has a longstanding agreement with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. This agreement enables us to bring refugee students to study in Canada as permanent residents. WUSC identifies refugee students who are in need of resettlement and grants permission to WUSC Local Committees at post-secondary institutions across Canada to sponsor in WUSC’s name.

Crucial to the program’s success is its unique youth-to-youth sponsorship model which empowers students in Canada to play an active role in the sponsorship of refugee students. Local Committees raise funds and awareness for the program on their campus and in their community. They also play a critical role in offering day-to-day social and academic support to newly-arrived students.

Going beyond resettlement, the Student Refugee Program also provides an innovative pathway to integration for young refugees. A 2007 study found that 97% of sponsored students had completed or were in the process of completing their post-secondary program with many intending to further their education. 85% had found work in their chosen fields after graduation.

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Main goals: 

We provide support to colleges, UCM institutions and students’ associations that want to promote their own activities. We exchange information and collaborate with local and regional governments and NGOs, as well as the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE) and the Conference of Rectors of Public Universities of Madrid (CRUMA). 

We also have designed a specific system for volunteers’ management, including communication mechanisms, training, monitoring and recognition of credits. Moreover, an internship programme is also offered. We also foster integration of teachers and researchers into UCM research groups.

The Research Coordination Office (in close cooperation with the Diversity and Gender Policy Unit) focuses on three future-oriented actions:

The SiG initiative started on a voluntary basis, as an initiative of university students and faculty members at Harokopio University of Athens. It  very quickly grew exponentially, together with an expression of interest of students and potential students, the founders being members of the academic society of the Harokopio University of Athens. Soon, faculty members and students from other universities, such as the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Athens University of Economics and Business and Panteion University, joined the initiative which they decided should take the form of a non-governmental, non-profit organisation. The network is still expanding.

Kiron provides refugees with world-class education and the opportunity to graduate from a university, free of charge. Our students complete the first two years online and the third year is spent at one of our partner universities, where they obtain an accredited university degree. 

By virtue of this concept, refugees:

The programme offers the following:

Concerning the refugee issue, Linnaeus University acts primarily within the areas of education and research. The university is also working to develop a method for a more efficient validation of newly-arrived immigrants’ skills. “Linnaeus University will work to help people who come to Sweden settle in and become a resource for the Swedish society,” according to former Rector Stephen Hwang.

At the university, there are already a lot of things going on, for instance, staff who work with unaccompanied refugee children are being trained and there is also different types of training relating to the learning of newly-arrived immigrants. A new programme has been launched in 2016: the integration and diversity programme.

This programme is aimed at both French- speaking refugee students and non-French speaking students who will benefit from enhanced training in French as a Foreign Language (FLE).

It starts with an integration week during which participants meet with various representatives of the university: Department of International Relations, Language Department, International Student Association, the sports department etc. This is followed by 12 weeks of intensive language training, as well as methodology workshops, an introduction to various disciplines taught at the university, as well as access to the “learning French online” platform in the computer room of the Language Department.

Re-invigorating principles of reform and social stability amongst young Syrian refugees in Denmark and Lebanon was an 8 month project funded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs under their Danish Arab Partnership Programme / Fund for Academic Cooperation and Exchange between Denmark and the Arab World. Roskilde University in Denmark and Alert International in Lebanon were the main partners. Together we were looking at the role of formal and informal education activities in fostering socially meaningful interactions and encounters between young Syrian refugees and their Danish / Lebanese counterparts in their respective host societies (in our case Denmark and Lebanon).

In Denmark, although officially we have a pluralistic integration policy – where everybody lives together and can maintain their respective cultural practices, in reality Denmark has an assimilationist policy. Denmark’s benchmark of “successful assimilation” is one of successful individual inclusion and acculturation to the mores of Danish life. The Danish integration programme that all refugees have to undertake is now offered from one up to five years. In the formal education system refugees under 18 years of age participate in special programmes within the public school system. Once they achieve a Danish language level of 2 (Danish 2) they have an equal opportunity to continue in the public education system which they enter at the 9th grade. The involvement of young refugees in informal education activities is the responsibility of Danish municipalities and activities can vary across municipalities.

The Integration Campus of TH Ingolstadt prepares refugees for higher education in Germany. Our target group are refugees who were unable to finish their studies in their home country or other refugees who wish to study and who have a university entrance qualification. During the 2-year programme our aim is to provide language courses as well as integration and study-preparation courses as well as specific courses, which already teach basics of the later regular study programme.

1) We directly cater to the refugee students’ needs for specific information through an information website with national scope. (Projected to be online in November 2017);

2) We foster student initiatives on the subject:

3) We raise information about the number and background of refugee students. Based on this data we try to raise awareness in the institutions that can make crucial changes to the obstacles refugee students face (universities, universities of applied sciences, social services, confederation, cantons, etc.). We have already published a general analysis of obstacles for refugee students in Switzerland in German and French.  Based on the information that we collect about the projects, we give them feedback on where they could develop/adopt another project’s solution.

UiT, as the third largest university in Norway has a large potential for taking in refugees and asylum seekers as trainees and practice observers. During the spring semester 2016 UiT cooperated with a local training agency to help refugees holding a positive decision on their residence application to get work experience. A call for action has been spread to all the units at the university on taking part in a refugee practice placement scheme. A common template facilitates such a practice scheme for the interested departments.

1) Our guest auditor programme
In our guest auditor programme, refugees who have already applied for asylum can attend courses of up to 10 ECTS per semester for free. If they participate in the programme, they can also take exams, and if they pass their courses, they will receive a certificate. Should they enter the university at a later point of time, we will (of course!) recognise these credit points.

2) Campus without Borders
Our student initiative where students can volunteer to be buddies or tutors to the refugees who participate in our guest auditor programme started in May 2015. The project is led by a steering committee that consists of students and refugees. There are open offers for everyone (parties, info sessions, “Meet & Greets”) and there is a tandem project for the guest auditors in which one student tutors one refugee and helps him or her through the “labyrinth” that a university can sometimes be.

3) Tandem Project: Social Work with Refugees
This project is also destined for the guest auditors but on a more scientific basis. Students of social work can participate in the project. They receive schooling and training to be prepared to deal with refugees (e.g. trauma awareness, systemic counselling, legal aspects, local networks, and so on) and support them throughout their semester as guest auditors.

Humanitarian response/First reception actions:

Academic response:

When refugees wait for a decision on their asylum application, they have a lot of time on their hands. In the refugee hostels, they lack space to be quiet and alone, they do not necessarily have internet connection or any reasonable resources. This IN-Touch initiative of the University of Bremen addresses all of these challenges by offering a bridge to education. The programme provides a change in daily routine and a bit of normality. It even carries a chance to gain new ideas for your professional future and positive perspectives. IN-Touch also provides the chance to re-gain self-confidence and hope, after experiencing traumatising events and living off charity.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs provides scholarships for a 4-year period (including a preparatory year). The Direction of International Relations of the University of Poitiers accompanied the group of Syrian students in their first steps in France, particularly helping with various administrative procedures, e.g. opening a bank account, insurance, etc. Obtaining and renewal of their residence permits were important steps. In addition, the University of Poitiers set up, with the support of the University foundation, a specific programme for refugees coming from Syria, Iraq, Eritrea and Afghanistan: access to courses in French as foreign language in order for the students to be able to enrol in a university course corresponding to their initial training or to their training wishes. Guiding these students requires an attentive ear. Their academic success and their incredible motivation are a strong endorsement to pursue this policy.

A course of seminars offers information and support, which will help the participants to make use of their education and work experience in the Austrian scientific field. The seminar covers topics such as the Austrian / European research system, research funding in Austria, nostrification in Austria, culture specific “business attitudes“ and expectations concerning highly skilled applicants, scientific entrepreneurship, drawing up business plans, offers of “EURAXESS Researchers in Motion”, science communication in Austria.

Our organisation “Zukunftsmacher gUG” offers several projects which focus on intercultural and social integration and equality as, for example, its integration project “ADIA Erding (Asylum – Demographic change – Integration – Arbeit [=work]). The ADIA Integration model accompanies and advises refugees from their arrival in Germany to their integration or their return to their home countries. ADIA also supports volunteer groups of helpers, municipalities and companies with their initiatives.

After years of gaining experience and refining our model, Habesha Project saw the need to look beyond the Syrian crisis, and begin tackling the displacement crisis taking place globally by offering higher education opportunities to young refugees from around the world.