On 10 December ACA dedicated its last seminar in 2015 to the pressing issue spreading across countries, sectors and institutions in Europe and beyond. The aim of ACA´s European Policy Seminar - The international refugee crisis. What role for European higher education? - was to provide a comprehensive overview of the current initiatives dealing with the large influx of immigrants and to bring together relevant higher education actors in order to jointly search for adequate responses and possible solutions. With more than 100 participants and almost 20 speakers, ACA firmly believes that its objectives have been accomplished and that the seminar has paved the way to a series of follow-up events of the kind. More...

Education is of central importance to the integration of refugees. More than half of the refugees currently arriving in Germany are under 25 years of age. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research in cooperation with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) will support those refugees who are willing to study and possess necessary qualifications. The ministry has made approximately EUR 1 million available during the next four years for the integration of refugees into the German higher education system, with EUR 27 million already available in 2016. More...

By Sarah Dryden-Peterson. Breaking the narrative of terrorism and extremism requires creating hope for the future. Yet more than half of US governors are participating in shutting the door on refugee children’s futures by saying refugees are simply not welcome in their states.
Right now, 2 million Syrian children are displaced outside of Syria and over five million more live amid devastating conflict inside its borders. Most of these children see no future in front of them. More...