With “Offers for Migrants”, the University of St.Gallen offers selected executive education programmes free of charge for refugee migrants with a university degree who live in Switzerland. With this initiative, the HSG is fulfilling its social responsibility as an educational institution and making an active contribution to equal opportunities and diversity & inclusion. offers selected executive education programmes free of charge for refugee migrants with a university degree who live in Switzerland. With this initiative, the HSG is fulfilling its social responsibility as an educational institution and making an active contribution to equal opportunities and diversity & inclusion.
Intention
The intention for this initiative has been around for a long time, but since the outbreak of war in Ukraine it has gained special attention, a perspective of concern and urgency. The pictures and videos of Ukrainians who fled and had to leave their loved ones and their belongings behind in a flash went around the world, sometimes in real time – these images have been with us for many months now and still touch us deeply.
Objective
The willingness at the HSG to make an active contribution to providing individual support to refugees with selected executive education programmes took shape after these events.
The aim of the “Offers for Migrants” initiative is to provide refugee migrants with a university degree who live in Switzerland with access to top-quality executive education so that they can shape a better future.
Target groups: Who is this offer designed for?
Who can apply for the free executive education programmes? At the beginning, the focus was still on the target groups of well-educated Ukrainians. In the spirit of equal opportunities, which is about the equal distribution of opportunities, the HSG is expanding its executive education programmes to include “refugee migrants with a university degree who live in Switzerland”. Migrants registered in Switzerland who have fled their home country (with the N, S, B, F identity cards) can submit an application via our HSG Executive Education Consultant, provided that the following requirements are met:
Application requirement
Application process:
Either via the HSG Executive Education Consultant
If all formal criteria of the defined requirements are met, the application can be clarified individually EXCLUSIVELY in a free counselling interview via our Executive Education Consultant, Judith Witzemann. Note: The respective programme director decides on the final admission.
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About our cooperation partner – HEKS MosaiQ
The specialist agency for qualified migrants – HEKS MosaiQ – has been acquired as a cooperation partner. HEKS MosaiQ participants can also take advantage of the selected HSG executive education programmes.
HEKS MosaiQ has been networking well-qualified people with international degrees since 2017, promoting their talents and supporting them with diploma recognition and professional integration. HEKS MosaiQ exists in Aargau, Bern, Zurich, and Eastern Switzerland.
What programmes are available to you?
Who offers these programmes?
The respective business units and institutes of the University of St.Gallen participate in different forms either:
in the initiative “Offers for Migrants”.
Please note: The available places per executive education programme are only available from our HSG executive education advisor. A maximum of one executive education programme can be used per person. The selected executive education programmes in this initiative are financed by the participating programme units themselves.
Media and press comments on the initiative
People behind the “Offers for Migrants” initiative
from left to right:
Natalie Strässle Baumann (HEKS MosaiQ, management & counselling), Judith Witzemann (ES-HSG, executive education consultant, Dr Christina Vetsch (ES-HSG, initiator), Myriam Städler (HEKS MosaiQ, counselling & programme collaboration), Ursina Dumelin (HEKS MosaiQ, counselling & programme collaboration)
