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This is an episode of Displacing Universities. The theme music is World Histrionic Forum by Dhow Jones and the Mariana Trenchcoat. If you want to get in touch about anything, please drop a line to ian.cook@dcu.ie This podcast is part of a wider project โDisplacing Universities โ Refugee Voices for Higher Education in Europeโ funded as part of a Marie Skลodowska-Curie Action. Grant Agreement number 101154597. Hosted at Dublin City University. Image by Ibrar Mirzai.
Abstract: The Displacing University podcast series is a series of long form interviews with people who have set up, run or research education programmes at European universities for people who have experienced displacement, including refugees and asylum seekers. In this episode of Displacing Universities Ian speaks with Elisabeth Boston. Elisabeth is the Refugee policy officer at UCLouvain in Belgium. They speak about Access2University (A2U), a programme that aims to prepare refugees (applicants) with little or no knowledge of French to resume university studies, and Education Pathways, which is an initiative to bring displaced people to Belgium to study.
