Refugee students support “before-during- after studies”
Iryna Degtyarova & Mariia Hrytsenko released the summary of the Summary of the world café discussions at the AGILE Summer School in Bordeaux, organised in June 2024!
Workshop “Refugee students support before-during-after studies – world café” was conducted during the AGILE Summer School for refugee students in Bordeaux.
The format of the World Cafe allowed to have discussion in 3 groups who focused on the support for students with refugee background at different stages of their academic experience:
- before
- during
- and after studies
Diversity of the students’ background allowed to address the difference between refugee perspective and perspective of regular international students, and determine the impact of "refugee status" on the educational process and identify the main difficulties of this situation from a student’s perspective.
The goal of the workshop was to elaborate the list of concrete comments and recommendations. The key takeaways are the set of ideas for the home universities on support integration of refugee students before-during-after that is based on sharing experiences and developing various learning environments.
Workshop was aimed at development teamwork skills, creative problem solving, communication skills, creating a collaborative environment, policy analysis competencies in refugee students, participants of the AGILE Summer School.
You can read and download the whole version of the summary on Zenodo : https://zenodo.org/records/15624287