The Share Network and Nexus 3.0, are pleased to invite you to the upcoming one-day Roundtable on Complementary Education Pathways in Europe: First lessons learned, taking place on Tuesday, 21 May in Lisbon.

The event is organised as part of the EU-Passworld project, funded by the European Union’s Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund. The project's goal is to design and pilot new education and labour pathways for Belgium, Ireland, and Italy, engaging receiving communities to support with welcome and integration of displaced students and workers.

The roundtable will bring together different actors engaged in the design and piloting of complementary education pathways in Europe to share lessons learned from the implementation of the EU-Passworld project. Together, participants will reflect on the challenges and opportunities as well as identify good practices in engaging universities and communities to develop sustainable education pathways for students in need of international protection.

The roundtable will highlight a variety of policy and programme design frameworks from different countries, discuss the various phases of the programmes and showcase the diverse engagement of actors involved.

Participation in the roundtable is open to representatives from higher education institutions, students,  government, civil society and international agencies. By bringing a wide range of actors from different EU countries, the roundtable offers the opportunity to learn from and exchange practices with colleagues facing similar challenges.If you are interested in attending this workshop, please register here.

Over the course of 2022-2023, the Share Network, in collaboration with its strategic partners in 6 EU countries undertook in-depth evaluations of the community sponsorship programmes in Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Spain, analysing the different phases of the programmes, from pre-departure to the  transition phase at the end of the sponsorship period. Qualitative data was collected from 159 individuals involved in sponsorship (decision-makers, civil society organisations, sponsor groups, welcomed refugees) across 16 different localities. A number of the evaluations also took a participatory approach, involving persons with lived experience in the design, interviews and analysis.

This webinar will bring together the researchers and project partners to look at the common challenges and opportunities across the different phases of sponsorship in a comparative perspective, offering valuable insight into the good practices which can make the various models more sustainable over the long-term.

The research was co-funded by the European Commission within the framework of the Share Quality Sponsorship Network (Share QSN) and implemented by  consortium partners consisting of  ICMC Europe, Caritas International, DiCV Cologne, the Basque Government, the Fédération de l’Entraide Protestante, the Irish Refugee Council, Caritas Italy/Consorzio Communitas and Citizens UK.

If you are interested in attending this workshop, please register here.