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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people.
The Federal Foreign Office (FFO) represents Germany to the world. It promotes international exchange and cooperation. Shaping globalisation in a sustainable manner is one of the most important tasks of diplomacy.
The DAAD is the world’s largest funding organisation for the international exchange of students and researchers.
UNHCR’s higher education scholarship programme Albert Einstein German Academic Refugee Initiative (DAFI) plays an integral role in enabling refugees worldwide to access higher education – over 14.500 since 1992.
HOPES (Higher and Further Education Opportunities and Perspectives for Syrians) was funded in response to the ongoing Syrian Crisis. The project seeks to provide better access to quality further and higher education opportunities for refugees of post-secondary-age from Syria as well as young people in the host communities affected by the high influx of refugees in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey.
