Spotlight Stage
Education in Emergencies
Date Friday, Nov 24 Time – RoomPotsdam III
At the end of 2022 globally over 100 million were forcibly displaced, over 35 million are refugees, more than 70% are hosted in low- and middle-income countries, more than 40% are children and youth and millions are out of school.
Education in Emergencies (EiE) and Higher Education in Emergencies (HEiE) are integral to a comprehensive humanitarian response that has progressively integrated technology.
This session will turn the spotlight on low-tech and no-tech designing for learning during conflict and crises.
Barbara Mercer-Moser
Visiting Fellow Oxford Refugee Studies Center, University of Nairobi, Kenya
Barbara Moser-Mercer, professor emerita and founder of InZone (University of Geneva), is visiting professor at University of Nairobi, engaged in strengthening African solutions that advance Higher Education in Emergencies (HEiE) and has designed and been coordinating the African Higher Education in Emergencies Network (AHEEN) operating in Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Burundi and South Africa to ensure that forcibly displaced youth access and complete higher education. She has also been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Center to advance her research into Higher Education in Emergencies. Following her initial training as conference interpreter she pursued her studies and research in cognitive psychology, focusing on the development of expertise in complex cognitive skills. She has applied these findings to learning in protracted humanitarian emergencies.