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September 21, 2021

Kiron x Deutsche Börse Group x Virtual Internships Mentoring Program

Together with Deutsche Börse Group and Virtual Internships, we are excited to announce a new opportunity for students to gain experience and knowledge in a variety of job sectors.

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August 4, 2021

Zaher’s story: Skill building as a life-long learner

I’m not a new graduate from public high school, but studying with Kiron has given me a new life.

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July 28, 2021

Meet Ahmad: It's never too late to change careers

Two years after receiving a degree to become a pharmacist in Syria, Ahmad realized he lacked the passion to continue pursuing a job in that field.

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July 12, 2021

Remote Learning on the Kiron Campus – Lessons Learned Along the Way

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, online education has become a way of life for many students.

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July 1, 2021

Building an inclusive learning environment for sustainable study success

Kiron and the H&M Foundation have successfully concluded their three-year-long collaborative project BLESS, having reached the goal of “building a learning environment for study success.”

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June 14, 2021

Meet Sultan: From Kiron student to Cloud Computing Specialist

Originally from Salamiyah, Syria, 26-year-old Sultan was studying Physics at a university in his hometown, but had to migrate to Germany due to political instability.

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April 28, 2021

Kiron Digital Launches Today

Since 2015, we at Kiron have been developing our online learning platform in order to provide free educational opportunities to thousands of refugees and underserved communities around the world.

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April 12, 2021

Kiron begins building the Digital Self Defense Center

In the digital age, many members of the civil society, NGOs and journalists feel that they are underprepared when it comes to data security.

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March 31, 2021

Why NGOs should embrace digital transformation

In March 2020, not only did COVID-19 dominate our conversations, but also shrunk our workplace into laptop-sized dimensions.

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February 17, 2021

Collective Impact Campus Q&A with PO Baptiste

As NGOs worldwide are working to ensure continuity of learning experiences for their communities, we are exploring a new approach that enables collaborative action.

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February 10, 2021

5 hard skills to learn in 2021

The world is changing rapidly and with that comes a shift in high demand careers in the job market. The tech and digital education sectors are growing and it is important to prepare yourself if you want to stay ahead of the job market. Have a look at the 5 hard skills to learn this year and be ready to land more career opportunities!

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November 23, 2020

YUFE launches Virtual Campus

Enabling students to study at 10 European universities online.

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November 17, 2020

Meet Elif: Overcoming barriers through language

One of the greatest barriers for refugees to receiving higher education or entering the job marketing is language. In Germany, many refugee students do not have the resources to reach the C1 language level required by employers and universities.

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November 12, 2020

Story of Change: Enes

One of the many initiatives designed under the H&M Foundation and Kiron’s targeted project, “Building a Learning Environment for Study Success (BLESS)”, is a focus on broadening German and English language offers.

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September 16, 2020

Get to know Thaki – an org providing sustainable educational resources to refugees

To celebrate World Refugee Day, we hosted Amplify Now, a 2-day virtual refugee conference which brought together students, organizations and industry leaders from across the globe to collaborate on solutions affecting refugees around the world.

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July 22, 2020

The movement continues – What’s next for Amplify Now?

2 days, 31 seminars, over 5000 participants from 80 countries, 40 organisations, and over 38,000 livestream participants around the world made up one of the biggest virtual refugee conferences – Amplify Now.

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July 21, 2020

BLESS: final year outlook

BLESS (Building a Learning Environment for Study Success), the three-year-long cooperation between the H&M Foundation and Kiron, is in its final year and we are looking forward to many exciting initiatives designed to foster a productive and inclusive learning community.

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June 23, 2020

Our partner: SPARK – Digital and Soft Skills project

Kiron partners with SPARK, Injaz Lebanon and Berytech in order to deliver Online Mentoring on digital skills and literacy and soft skills, funded by EU MADAD and Al Fakhoora.

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June 23, 2020

Our partner: NRC – joint certificate program

The Norwegian Refugee Council Lebanon (NRC) and Kiron Lebanon have partnered in 2018-2019 to deliver blended learning programmes to 56 students, facilitated in a study center from the Lebanon Academy of Training and Development in Sidon.

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April 2, 2020

Kiron talks...

Our new format for a conversation on wide-open learning

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March 25, 2020

Amplify Now: Virtual Refugee Conference on World Refugee Day

At Kiron, we believe that change can only happen when everyone’s voice is heard. That’s why we are organising our first online conference dedicated to refugees around the world. Too often, international and domestic conferences about forced migration lack representation and inclusivity, and present refugees as passive recipients, not as potential change-makers and innovators.

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