CEU’s Open Learning Initiative-University Preparatory Program, OLIve-UP, is a university preparatory program for refugees funded by Erasmus+ and the Higher Education Support Program of the Open Society Foundations. Since January 2017, the program offers intensive training in different academic subjects and in academic English to prepare students to continue their studies in BA and MA programs in Europe.
Fully Funded Higher Education Opportunity for Refugees in Europe at Central European University, Budapest - OLIve-UP is now accepting applications for its September 2017 to June 2018 program.
This January and February, twelve students from such diverse countries as Cameroon, Yemen, and Iran gathered together at CEU Library’s Mirabaud Media Lab to receive training on using film to share their personal stories. The attendees were participants in CEU’s OLIve Weekend Program, an initiative providing free weekend courses to registered refugees and asylum seekers in Hungary.
