Find out about the work carried out to support our student and staff community during previous global events.
Timeline
2025
The University's University of Sanctuary accreditation successfully renewed
New online learning scholarship offered for displaced people
2024
2023
Libya – support offered to those affected by the floods
Morocco – community support offered after the earthquake
Malawi - support offered for those affected by Tropical Cyclone Freddy
Turkey and Syria earthquakes - an update on support
The University hosts two international refugee conferences
2022
The University's statement on Ukraine
Edinburgh partners with the University of the People - the world’s first non-profit, tuition-free, accredited online university- to empower refugees to take control of their futures and reclaim their hopes and dreams.
2021
Afghanistan – an update on the University's support
Student tutors help young refugees from Syria to adapt to new lives in Edinburgh
2020
2019
2018
One Day Without Us - a national day of action on 17 February 2018, celebrating migrants and migration in the UK
2016
Historical support
The University's support of Viennese composer, Hans Gál.
Escaping Nazi-occupied Austria: Hans Gál's story
The establishment of the Polish School of Medicine in March 1941 was a unique wartime academic initiative:
Related links
Edinburgh Global - activities and projects