Best Practice from UNHCR Ireland and Nasc, the Migrant and Refugee Rights Centre
The EU-Passworld Scholarship Programme is an EU-funded initiative designed to create education pathways for refugees from third countries to pursue master’s degrees in Ireland. The programme partners with universities, NGOs, and UNHCR to offer scholarships covering tuition, living expenses, and travel costs. Required resources include university partnerships to provide academic opportunities, waiving of tuition fees, community sponsorship fundraising for living expenses, administrative support for application and selection processes, and collaboration with NGOs and community sponsorship groups for pre-departure orientation and post-arrival integration. The initiative aims to empower refugees with advanced education, fostering self-reliance and long-term economic stability.
Five refugee students begin Masters in Ireland as part of groundbreaking scholarship programme
Aoibhinn Helly (Programme Manager, UNHCR Ireland), Fiona Hurley (CEO, Nasc, the Migrant and Refugee Rights Centre), Tessa Cornally (Complementary Pathways Officer, Nasc, the Migrant and Refugee Rights Centre), Olivia Teahan (Policy and Communications Manager, Nasc, the Migrant and Refugee Rights Centre), Sinead MacArtain (Community Sponsorship Officer, Nasc, the Migrant and Refugee Rights Centre). Five refugee […]
EU-passworld on YouTube
EU Passworld on YouTube Great news for our project! Finally, on new YouTube channel you can find stories of refugee students and workers who are building their future, of universities and higher education intitutes that are welcoming and preparing them for their professional carreers, and companies that are making the most from their skills and […]
3 new documents
3 new documents We have just finalized three policy briefs documenting different aspects of the pathways that we have developed in the context of the EU-Passworld project, in Ireland, Belgium and Italy. A Labour Pathway to Ireland for Displaced Workers describes in detail the design of a pathway within the framework of Ireland’s Critical Skills […]
EU Passworld, guidance for student refugees in Leuven
EU Passworld, support for refugees in Leuven First quite a few blocks for the exams, and then Stephen Chan has his first academic year at the KU Leuven. Stephen is a student-refugee from South Sudan and can study in Belgium and build a future through EU Passworld, a program of Caritas International, among others. His […]
Education Pathways Community Sponsorship Group in Cork established
Education Pathways Community Sponsorship Group in Cork established The Community Sponsorship Group in County Cork, Ireland, was officially established on January 31st, 2024, during the first in-person meeting at University College Cork, as part of the EU-Passworld project. During her presentation on the EU-Passworld initiative, Tessa Cornally from Nasc, the Migrant and Refugee Rights Centre, […]
International scholarship for refugee students at the University of Galway
University of Galway Announces Innovative International Scholarship for Refugee Students A pioneering local group ‘Pobal na Gaillimhe’, will welcome two refugee students, who are Congolese and Cameroonian, to University of Galway in September 2023 with support from the University of Galway, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and Nasc, the Migrant and Refugee Rights Centre. The […]
Engaging Communities in Education and Labour Pathways
Engaging Communities in Education and Labour PathwaysEU-Passworld ATCR Side Event | Geneva 28 June 2023 This year the ATCR (Annual Tripartite Consultations on Resettlement) was held in Geneva, promoted byUNHCR and co-organized by The Irish Refugee Protection Program (IRPP) in the Department of Children,Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth as the State Chair and Nasc, the […]
Education and Labour Pathways Webinar Report
HOW DOES SPONSORSHIP MAKE EDUCATION AND LABOUR PATHWAYS SUSTAINABLE? The Community Perspective
Nairobi Working Group Report
Working Group on Identification, Referral, and MatchingLearning Exchange Visit, Nairobi, KenyaRoyal Tulip Hotel, Tigoni Road, off Chaka Road, Kilimani, Hurlingham Tuesday – Thursday, March 28-30, 2023 As part of the EU-PASSWORLD project, the second Working Group on Identification, Referral and Matching was held from 28 to 30 March 2023 in Nairobi (Kenya), within which a […]