Students with refugee experience Students with refugee experience

As you start your studies, take advantage of the HAW Hamburg Centre for Migration Research and Integration Practice's KOMPETENZ KOMPAKTplus programme to support and accompany new international students and students with a refugee background:

• Multilingual subject tutors will support you in learning the subject-specific language and understanding and applying the content of the courses you take as part of your degree course.
• Multilingual welcome tutors will accompany and support you as you get oriented in everyday student life.
• Workshops will help you expand your study strategies and your self-management and intercultural skills.
• You will have access to an open study room, which will provide you with a quiet space to study alone or with others.

Recognising the skills of people with refugee experience
The KOMPETENZ KOMPAKTplus programme for new international students and new students with refugee experience is offered by the HAW Hamburg Centre for Migration Research and Integration Practice. It differs from offers at other universities and applied sciences universities because it is oriented toward your skills and your specific situation. We want to enable new international students and new students with refugee experience to settle into their studies at HAW Hamburg as quickly and successfully as possible. Multilingual tutorials and e-learning tools play an important role here.

Centre for Migration Research and Integration Practice
The KOMPETENZ KOMPAKT programme for prospective students with refugee experience was developed as part of the project 'Higher Education Skills of Individuals with Refugee Experience at HAW Hamburg – Competencies for a Plural Society'. It is offered by the HAW Hamburg Centre for Migration Research and Integration Practice, which is headed by Prof. Dr. Louis Henri Seukwa, the HAW Hamburg Executive Board's representative for migration-related university development. As a 'laboratory for migration-related university development', the centre's measures facilitate suitable education opportunities for people with refugee and migration experience through a systematic emphasis on these individuals' resources and skills.

The centre's overarching goal is to bundle and link academic activities in the area of migration and integration in order to ensure that they are systematically developed and advanced on an ongoing basis, both within the university and in the Hamburg metropolitan region.

To learn more about the KOMPETENZ KOMPAKTplus programme for international students and students with refugee experience, please contactkompetenz-kompakt(@)haw-hamburg.de.

KOMPETENZ KOMPAKTplus is funded by the German Academic Exchange Serivce's (DAAD) Integra and Welcome programmes with financial support from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Bunte Hände (Colourful Hands) is the student project of the Centre for Migration Research and Integration Practice at HAW Hamburg. Students with a refugee background, international students and German students support youths and young adults with a refugee background with the aim of helping them succeed at their studies. Join us!

You can find more information here.