This year’s topic of the Excellence Programme is The Rights of Refugees. The Programme was initially launched in 2011: with its help, the participating students – as parts of an international research group – get a great opportunity of working with such renowned organization.

Five Hungarian students of Pázmány Péter Catholic University and five Dutch students of Radboud University are working jointly on the internationally relevant topic of the rights of refugees. Having effective cooperation desires personal meetings as well, therefore, during the three working weeks organized until May, they will have the opportunity to expand their knowledge, and delve into the topic of integration of refugees.

During the first work week the students had the opportunity to present their ideas to Mr. René BRUIN, representative of the UNHCR in the Netherlands, to work further on the framework of the project by giving more specified aims and objectives and to get in touch with the Hungarian representatives of UNHCR via a video conference call, not to mention the exploration of Nijmegen and Hague.

A few words from the Hungarian participants:

,, Thanks to the Excellence Programme, we can all experience the effectiveness of cooperation with our Dutch partners. Being able to have a possible impact on a new type of integration policy implemented by our countries and UNHCR, and to phrase our opinions and findings on such a relevant topic is truly fascinating to us and drives us to do our utmost to achieve a real impact.”

We wish them a very successful program year!