Conference

Objectives and Subject

The 2023 “SORM Conference” on Transnational Skill Partnerships is a three-day multidisciplinary scientific international conference hosted by the Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS) during its International Week 2023 in cooperation with the Association for the Study of the World Refugee Problem (AWR), the German Jordanian University (GJU), and the Nuremberg Institute of Technology (NIT).

Streamed hybrid for a global audience, speakers are expected to contribute physically. The conference is structured in six sessions: (1) Partnership Framework; (2) Project Examples; (3) Levelling Barriers; (4) Transnational Education; (5) Regions: MENA; (6) Regions: Sub-Saharan Africa; (7) Open session for CfP contributions. Contributions and conclusions are collected for publication in the Quarterly on Refugee Problems (QRP).

All accepted and submitted papers are supposed to be published in the double blind peer-reviewed Quarterly on Refugee Problems – AWR Bulletin (QRP; https://ejournals.bibliothek.thws.de/qrp/index).

The event is part of THWS’ International Teaching Week 2023 with an attractive side program.