World Refugee Day: Campus France supports refugee students worldwide

HOPES for Higher and Further Education Opportunities and Perspectives for Syrians

Campus France has engaged with its European partners (DAAD, British Council and Nuffic) to implement the HOPES programme, which aims at supporting the integration of young Syrians in higher education institutions from countries close to Syria.

The project is financed by the regional trust fund "Madad Fund" from the European Union and is focused on Syrian refugees living in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq, but also on the host communities of these countries.

The project focuses on four main objectives:

• Guiding students and managing scholarship grants,
• Teaching English to students,
• Funding projects seeking to improve local training offers and capacities of institutions of the region, and
• Fostering political exchange and communication actions.

inHERE (Higher Education supporting refugees in Europe)

Campus France is a partner of the Erasmus+ Key Action 2 project "inHERE" implemented by a consortium including UNIMED, Campus France, the European Universities Association (EUA) and the universities of Barcelona, Spain, and La Sapienza of Roma, Italia. The United Nations Agency for Refugees (UNHCR) is associate partner.

The project is designed to facilitate access and integration of refugees in European institutions of higher education.

A series of actions has been implemented:

• A mapping of initiatives by European institutions,
• The exchange of good practices in relation with the intake of refugees,
• Political recommendations,
• The organisation of events for representatives of institutions and stakeholders.