Marina Malgina
Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education, Norway
Marina Malgina is a Head of Section for Recognition of Refugees’ Qualifications in the Department of Foreign Education at the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT). She has been leading NOKUT’s work in developing and implementing recognition procedures to support refugees in accessing further studies and employment since 2010. Since 2015 she is involved in the development of the European Qualifications Passport for Refugees scheme and is a content coordinator in the pilot project ‘Recognition of Qualifications held by Refugees’ led by the Council of Europe. Prior to that she worked for several years as a credential evaluator and a university lecturer.
Marina received the Bo Gregersen Award for Best Practice in 2017 in recognition for the impressive external reach and impact of the ‘European qualification Passport for Refugees’ initiative. Her work supports refugee education and increases the effectiveness of integration into the society of host countries.