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SIRIUS – Policy Network on Migrant Education
“SIRIUS – Policy Network on Migrant Education” brings together key stakeholders in migration and education from around Europe, including policy makers, researchers, practitioners and representatives of migrant communities.
SIRIUS transfers knowledge and influences policy developments in order to help pupils from a migrant background achieve the same educational standards as their native peers.
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European Parliament Elections and SIRIUS – what is the relation?
You may noticed a lot on our social media feed about the European Elections in 2024…and wondered what the connection between our work and the elections are? Well, as the…
Why fund migrant and refugee education? Lifelong Learning Week 2022
On Friday 2nd December SIRIUS celebrated the Lifelong Learning week on “Investment in Education and Training: A Public Good for All” by holding a workshop on funding of migrant…
SIRIUS is at European Conference on Educational Research 23-25 August!
23-25 August, held by the European Educational Research Association, ECER will host a session on Inclusive Education. Dr. Nicola Horsley will be presenting some fresh research about digital resilience of…
Policy Conference 2022
Ireland’s experience of migration has changed radically over the past two decades, with a shift from net emigration to net immigration. The 2016 Census indicates that 535,475 non-Irish nationals, from…
National Round Tables - Comparative Report 2021
Ireland’s experience of migration has changed radically over the past two decades, with a shift from net emigration to net immigration. The 2016 Census indicates that 535,475 non-Irish nationals, from…
Invasion of Ukraine – confronting some of the education challenges: SIRIUS works with the EC working group equality and values
SIRIUS was well-represented in the recent working group on Equality and Values with board and working group member Barry Van Driel moderating a panel made up of SIRIUS member Forum…
Multilingual materials for including Ukrainian Refugees in your classroom (ages 4-8)
The AVIOR projects focused on multilingual educational materials. In the light of the situation in Ukraine, the demand for educational materials is. On this page we contribute to that wish…
Policy Brief Series: Refugee children in education in Europe. How to prevent a lost generation?
Already for decades, European countries have ample experience receiving refugee children. The last peak was in the 1990s due to the civil war in former Yugoslavia, the war in Iraq…
Report - Inclusive Digital Education Workshops for Migrants and Refugees (2020 and 2021)
Ireland’s experience of migration has changed radically over the past two decades, with a shift from net emigration to net immigration. The 2016 Census indicates that 535,475 non-Irish nationals, from…
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ENABLE Project- Presentation and kick off Meeting
SIRIUS is starting a new European project called ENABLE, focused on “enabling school integration of migrant and refugee children through social and emotional learning interventions to address psychosocial trauma”and implemented…
Welcoming Third-Country Nationals in Higher Education in Europe - Lifelong Learning Week 2022
As part of the LLLWeek, SIRIUS joined the MAXIPac closing event which took place the 1st of December in Brussels. The Lisbon Recognition Convention says that all countries should develop…
#EURegionsWeek Youth participation and democracy: a quick overview
The European Week of Regions and Cities is a one-week-long event organised by the EU Committee of the Regions that promotes the sharing of good practices and ideas for a…
YMCAC: drawing conclusions and keeping an eye on the future
Now that a month has passed since the end of the UYD, we will go deeper into Sirius’ training, Young Migrants Can Achieve Change (YMCAC). We will explain the activities…
Working Group Meeting on Anti-racist Education
This week SIRIUS Network, on Behalf of ENAR, has coordinated a Working Group on Access to Education for migrants and refugees of color within the EU. The focus on this…
UYD 2022 - Young Migrants Can Achieve Change
This past week SIRIUS took part in the University of Youth and Development, which is an event that aims at improving youth participation, intercultural dialogue and global citizenship. It gathers…
SIRIUS at the University on Youth and Development
This upcoming September, between the 11th and the 18th, SIRIUS Network will be one of the organisations hosting an activity under the framework of the University on Youth and Development…
Lifelong learning Laboratory – learning how to do our job better
On the 30th and 31st of May, SIRIUS attended the Lifelong Learning Laboratory held by the Lifelong Learning Platform. The Laboratory focused on Lifelong Learning entitlements for the Future for…
Including Ukrainian refugees in secondary school classrooms: what if the pupils just don’t speak the language?
Our Executive Director, Mialy Dermish, wrote the following article talking about the inclusion of Ukrainian kids in schools and how difficult it can be for teachers without training on this.…
Lifelong Learning Interest Group Values Education and Lifelong Learning
On the 17th of May 2022 SIRIUS Network was present in the Lifelong Learning Interest Group meeting organized by the European Association for the Education of Adults and the Lifelong…
About Us
“SIRIUS – Policy Network on Migrant Education” brings together key stakeholders in migration and education from around Europe, including policy makers, researchers, practitioners and representatives of migrant communities.
SIRIUS transfers knowledge and influences policy developments in order to help pupils from a migrant background achieve the same educational standards as their native peers.
What is Sirius
Our Mission
Our Vision
SIRIUS is the international leading Policy Network on Migrant Education: the EU’s privileged adviser on these topics since 2012 and an independent network (International not for profit association) since 2017 including all major education stakeholders.
SIRIUS is a membership-based organisation that promotes the social inclusion of children and young people with migrant background by fostering their effective access to the universal right to education.
Our vision is a world where the universal right to education is fully implemented and discrimination at all levels of the educational system is eradicated. We strive for pupils from a migrant background to achieve the same educational standards as their native peers.