“Imagine for a second that you were to flee your country and you have a very short time to take what you can and leave your home, your city, everything behind you. You could not find your diplomas or perhaps as you were travelling by sea you have lost the documents. Now you have arrived in a host country but you cannot prove that you have those qualifications. How would you feel? What could you do?”

Refugees fleeing their countries might not have with them the documents proving their education qualifications.

This documentary is on the Council of Europe Project “European Qualifications Passport for Refugees”, a project that aims to support refugees by promoting a methodology to assess refugees’ qualifications in absence of full documentation. The “European Qualifications Passport for Refugees” aims to help refugees to be admitted to further studies or enter the job market in the host country.

For more information on the project, please visit:

Any views expressed in the video do not necessarily reflect the official point of view of the Council of Europe.

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