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Refugees Initiative

UPV / EHU CARE PROGRAM FOR REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS

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INSTITUTION RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INITIATIVE

Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU)

COUNTRY

Spain

CITY

Bizkaia

Address

Barrio Sarriena s/n 48940 Leioa Bizkaia

TYPOLOGY

- Financial support for refugee students
- Health services
- Help desk and supporting services for refugee students
- Housing for refugee students
- Language and other introductory courses for refugee students
- Recognition of studies and prior learning for refugee students
- University policies on access to higher education

TARGET GROUPS

- Newly arrived refugees
- University staff (academic and administrative)

DESCRIPTION AND METHODOLOGIES

Introduction
Universities cannot remain indifferent to the drama of refugees
we have attended in recent years. Therefore, in addition to the individual implications
of the members of the university community, the university as
institution must make its human potential, resources and knowledge available
of the affected people in order to improve their living conditions.
Echoing this responsibility, the Conference of Rectors of Universities
Spanish (CRUE) meeting in General Assembly on September 7, 2015 agreed:
• Facilitate access for refugee students who are university students
in your home country.
• Facilitate collaboration with Spanish universities, of refugees who
are university professors in their country of origin.
• Promote volunteer activities among students, in collaboration with
other administrations and agents, especially in those disciplines more
directly related to this social drama. For its part, the University of the Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV / EHU)
by means of a resolution adopted unanimously in the Governing Council of October 1
of 2015, committed to carrying out different actions for the care of refugees in the
Basque Autonomous Community (CAV). As reflected in Figure 1, these actions
They are framed in four lines of action:
1) Help in the process of regularization of the academic situation and access to the
college
2) Assistance in covering special needs in the university environment
3) Promotion of awareness and debate
4) Financial and material aid to refugee university students

Activities:
3.1. Help in the process of regularization of the academic situation and
University access.
3.2. Assistance in covering special needs in the field
university - 3.2.1. Accommodation and meals; 3.2.2. Intra and intercampus transportation; 3.2.3. Material for the study; 3.2.4 Language courses; 3.2.5. Other services
The UPV / EHU offers refugees and asylum seekers services with which
You already have to cover special needs:
• Employment service
• Youth Information Service
• Applied Psychology Service
• Mentoring or peer tutoring program
• Accommodation service (ostatu application)
• Dental Clinic
3.3. Promotion of awareness and debate;
3.4. Financial aid.