Speakers
Iris Vernekohl
Session
✅ Included for all participants
After fleeing Afghanistan, Najiba now works on developing life-saving anti-cancer drugs at a cluster of excellence. Inspired by her example, we will explore how to reimagine academic solidarity in terms of empowerment, internationalisation and global engagement. This can be done by establishing powerful fellowship and hosting schemes that leverage the full potential and benefits of hosting at-risk researchers – for the researcher, the university and society more broadly.
Louise Watts is Head of European Projects at Campus France, the French national agency for the promotion of higher education, student and researcher mobility and hosting services for international students.
Louise is responsible for developing and overseeing a portfolio of EU-funded projects in areas relating to the internationalisation of higher education, academic mobility, higher education promotion and support to refugees. She manages a multicultural team and initiates and implements activities with European and international partner organisations.
Louise is a member of the European Commission's working group on Youth Mobility for Africa.
Prior to joining Campus France in 2004, Louise worked at the Centre international d'études pédagogiques (now known as France Education International) as Programme Manager and taught at the Universities of Bretagne-Sud and Rennes I.
Louise has a Master's degree in linguistics and is a qualified teacher.