In 2022, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced that over 100 million individuals worldwide have been forcibly displaced as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations or events seriously disturbing public order. Europe alone hosts over seven million refugees who were forcibly displaced, including asylum-seekers, stateless persons, internally displaced persons and unaccompanied minors.
Despite it being more than seven decades since the enshrinement of refugee rights through the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, many refugees continue to face challenges when it comes to accessing educational systems or pursuing their educational goals in Europe. These challenges became especially prominent in 2015 when Europe saw 1.3 million individuals, including children, requesting asylum in that year alone.
As such, critical conversations on refugee education need to expand from ensuring basic access to education to building sustainable educational pathways and trajectories for refugees. This conference is a Europe-wide gathering of researchers, policymakers and practitioners involved in refugee education and committed to building sustainable educational pathways and trajectories for refugees and displaced peoples in Europe.
The HERE conference will involve keynote speakers, invited presentations, academic papers and networking activities focusing on refugee education in Europe. We are looking for conference attendees from research, practice and policy to contribute to this critical conversation on moving refugee education in Europe forward.
