The Office of the Vice President for Equality and Diversity

Excellence in Exile

MU is a certified University of Sanctuary welcoming refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants into our university community and fostering a culture of inclusion for all those seeking sanctuary. MU offers a number of Sanctuary Scholarships for students who are asylum seekers or refugees in Ireland and who do not have access to state support for their studies. 

MU is a member of the Universities of Sanctuary Ireland network. 

MU offers a local Scholars at Risk Fellowship for academics/research staff who are forced to flee their home country.  We are a member of the Global Scholars at Risk Network whose mission is to protect scholars and promote academic freedom, and we are members of the Scholars at Risk Ireland network.
 
The European office of the Global Scholars at Risk Network (SAR Europe) is hosted at MU and we are active partners in the SAR Europe EU-funded InSPIREurope initiative to support researchers at risk. 

• MU University of Sanctuary
• Universities of Sanctuary Ireland
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• MU Scholars at Risk
• Global Scholars at Risk Network
• Scholars at Risk Ireland 
• European office of the Global Scholars at Risk Network (SAR Europe)

Please contact [email protected] if you would like more information.