REACT – Refugees and Recognition – An Erasmus+ Project

The overall goal of the project is to enhance the mobility, employability and access to further studies for refugees, displaced persons and persons in a refugee-like situation – including those without official documentation of their educational background.

The project builds on the recently completed Erasmus+ project “Refugees and Recognition”, which developed a common methodological approach to the recognition of refugees’ qualifications. Taking this work a step further, the REACT-project will develop and test this methodology in major refugee-receiving countries and in cooperation with higher education institutions.

The aim is to establish a more efficient and consistent approach to the recognition of refugees’ qualifications in Europe.

The European Students’ Union (ESU) -together with representatives from EUA, KIRON, CICIC and the ENIC Bureau President- is taking part in the project steering group, giving guidance and strategic advice to the project group.

Main project activities

• Testing and adaptation of the toolkit developed in the previous project, in close cooperation with higher education institutions
• Provide recommendations to higher education institutions and identifying best practice cases that illustrate pathways for admission of refugee students to further studies
• Developing five refugee country briefings
• Developing e-learning modules based on the refugee country briefings

Timeline

• Kick-off seminar in Oslo, April 2018
  – The meeting agenda (pdf)
  – Minutes from the meeting (pdf)
• Fact-finding seminar in Rome, 1. June 2018
  – The meeting agenda (pdf)
  – Minutes from the meeting (pdf)
• Developing refugee country briefings
• Training-seminar for higher education institutions, The Hague, 26. November 2018
  – The meeting agenda (pdf)
  – Minutes from the meeting (pdf)
• Developing e-learning modules
• Testing of the toolkit in cooperation with higher education institutions
• Identification of best practice cases for admission of refugee students
• Final dissemination seminar

Partners

• CIMEA (Italy)
• NUFFIC (The Netherlands)
• KMK (Germany)
• QQI (Ireland)

Results

• The REACT Q-Card for Admission Officers (pdf)
• Watch the recording from the webinar on results of testing at higher education institutions| Presentation (pdf)
• Country briefing for:
  – Iran (pdf) | See the recording from the webinar | Presentation (pdf)
  – Ethiopia (pdf) | See the recording from the webinar | Presentation (pdf)
  – Somalia (pdf) | See the recording from the webinar | Presentation (pdf)
  – Venezuela (pdf) | See the recording from the webinar | Presentation (pdf)
  – DRC (pdf) | See the recording from the webinar | Presentation (pdf)

More information on the project’s website