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Side Event to the Brussels V Conference on “Supporting the future of Syria and the region” ‘HIGHER EDUCATION IN CRISIS SETTINGS MATTERS – LISTENING TO SYRIAN VOICES AND OTHER TESTIMONIALS’ 25 March 2021 (11am - 1 pm CET time) Registration is closed now! The full programme is NOW available here!
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What is this Session all about?
In 2014 Jorge Sampaio, former President of Portugal, launched an emergency scholarship programme for Syrian students caught in the crisis to enable them to complete their higher education. This pioneer multi-stake-holders initiative brought together a number of private and public international donors and partners as well as the Portuguese academic community. With the full support of the Portuguese authorities, since 2014 scores of young Syrian women and men were able to resume their studies. More than one hundred have already graduated with a BA, MA or PhD’s degrees. Yet numerous other students are still waiting for an education opportunity to bounce back and rebuild hope for the future. Too many youth are being left behind. Without accessible and quality education, youth also end up being left out of the world of work. This session is about listening to Syrian voices and other testimonials from the ground involved in this initiative in different capacities to raise awareness about the need to boost higher education opportunities for young people caught up in crisis due to conflict, persecution or natural disasters. It provides a unique opportunity to deeper understand higher education in emergencies both as a very practical, human and emotional subject and as a key strategic policy issue at the core of the so-called triple nexus (humanitarian-development-peace nexus). At the end of the session participants will have developed a better understanding of how much “in conflict and crisis situations, higher education serves as a powerful driver for change, shelters a critical group of young men and women by maintaining their hopes for the future, fosters inclusion and non-discrimination and acts as a catalyst for the recovery and rebuilding of post-conflict countries” (New York Declaration, paragraph 82, 2016). As Kholoud, an electronical engineer, alumna of the Global Platform for Syrian Students once said, “if you build a person, the person will build the community and the community will rebuild the country”.
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