On the 28th and 29th of April 2021 the University of Zarqa in Jordan organised the “Conference on Pioneering Prospects of Higher Education Systems in the Arab World“. Among the topics of the conference there were also the specific sections about ...
Read More »The Lebanese Universities and their efforts towards deprived local communities and refugees
(Rome, 18 March 2019) The Lebanese internal debate about refugees has never been an easy matter. The country is historically suffering from the presence of different “refugee” communities, most recently represented by the Syrians. When the RESCUE project started in ...
Read More »“R-SOS supporting units” opened in Duhok: mentoring, orientation and support for local communities, Internally Displaced Peoples and refugees
(Rome, 1 February 2019) Last 15 January 2019 the University of Duhok and the Duhok Polytechnic University, with an official ceremony, celebrated the opening of two offices at the core of their campuses: the Refugee Student Operational Support Unit or R-SOS ...
Read More »Capacity building for non-academic staff in Lebanon and Jordan: setting up competencies for R-SOS Units helping refugees
The RESCUE project entered in its “real” capacity-building phase with a total of 6 days of face-to-face training conducted by Dr. Anja Wipper and Mr. Peer-Olaf Kalis from the Technischen Universität Berlin. The training was offered for the staff of ...
Read More »Needs analysis for an effective response of Universities in Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq to the refugee crisis
The international cooperation RESCUE project – aimed at helping Jordanian, Lebanese and Iraqi (Kurdistan Region) Universities in structuring an effective response to refugees crisis – has monitored the presence of refugee students on national levels and identified, produced and updated a needs analysis ...
Read More »Higher Education and Refugees: a better coordination for future sustainability
The Conference on Higher Education and refugees organized in Beirut from 26-27 September 2017 in the framework of the HOPEs project and in collaboration with the DG Education and Culture, showed the absolute necessity for a stronger coordination among ongoing ...
Read More »UNIMED at Campus France Meetings with a speech about refugees and Higher Education in Europe and MENA region
On July 3rd to 5th 2017, Campus France hosted the 2nd edition of the Campus France Meetings for Innovation and Research, with the aim of supporting the internationalization of French research and innovation and promote the attractiveness of France with ...
Read More »RESCUE, field visits completed in Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, Kurdistan Region
With the visit from 8th to 13th of May 2017 at University of Duhok and Polytechnic of Duhok premises, the RESCUE team completed the field visits in the Middle East region. The RESCUE team visited all the Partner countries’ Universities ...
Read More »RESCUE Project: visit in Northern Iraq, Kurdistan Region – Duhok University and Duhok Polytechnic
The first activity of the RESCUE (Refugees Education Support in MENA Countries) project, funded by the European Commission through the ERASMUS+ programme, and coordinated by UNIMED, consists of a deep analysis of the needs of the partner Universities, located in ...
Read More »RESCUE Kick Off Meeting & Workshop on “Refugees in Europe and MENA Region”, Rome 14-15 February 2017
Six partners from Europe and eight from South Mediterranean Countries (Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq) are gathering on February 14-15, 2017 in Rome at UNIMED premises for the Kick-off meeting of the RESCUE project (Refugees Education Support in MENA Countries), coordinated ...
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