The HOPES (Higher and Further Education Opportunities and Perspectives for Syrians) project aims at providing better access to quality further and higher education opportunities for refugees from Syria as well as young people in the host communities in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey.
This multifaceted €12-million regional project is funded by the European Union, through the EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis, the ‘EU Madad Fund’, and is implemented by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) together with the British Council, Campus France and Nuffic.
From 2016 until 2020, HOPES has provided full academic scholarships at different levels, university-based English-language and study skills courses, academic counselling, funding for innovative short-term education projects, and national and regional stakeholder dialogues.