OLIve Workshop

Refugee Higher Education: Past, Present, Future.

The workshop is an interactive joint workshop across several OLIve programs from Budapest, London, and Berlin. It will be in Budapest, but it is a hybrid workshop, it is possible to join online. 

Location:         Kesztyűgyár, Budapest.

Time:               June 15, 2023. 09:30 – 17:15, June 16, 2023. 10:00 – 17:00

About the workshop:

DAY 1 – PAST, PRESENT OF OLIVE
Main focus: The learning experience of students.

Students, ex-students, mentors and teachers of OLIve programs from Berlin, Budapest, and London share their experiences and exchange ideas.

 1. Roundtable discussion – Transferable Skills
Short presentations by students and teachers, then we all discuss and share their experience: What skills are important? What skills are transferable:  What have you learnt and can use elsewhere: in your job, in your personal life, in your education? Why are these important? What have you learnt at OLIve that is valuable and important to you?

2. English classes block
Presentations and demo classes: Students and teachers could share and discuss learning English at OLIve in a diverse environment. What worked, what didn’t work? What did you like in a class and what did you not? 

3. Future: How to Build a University for Displaced People and other Marginalised Groups

Presentations by invited guests followed by discussion.

In this session we start from the assumption that universities as they currently function are sites of exclusion for many. Moving beyond these existing important critiques, we aim to think through:

1) what we like about universities (i.e. what we think should be saved or is important in the contemporary university).

2) practically, ethically and politically how we can set up a higher education institution based on the principles of access in Hungary for displaced people and those who are otherwise marginalised (not only for those based in Hungary, but across Europe).

DAY 2

1. Creative Work of Students at OLIve

Showcasing the cretaive work of students at OLIve: poetry, creative writing and clligraphy. Readings and interactive workshops.

2. Writing workshop – edited volume

Writing activities, reflection and editing of a volume on Refugee Higher Education to be published