Training courses

The Institute offers a variety of courses throughout the year, in cooperation with UNHCR. Courses traditionally take place at the Institute, in Sanremo, Italy, and are a few days long. Currently all courses are held online and are spread over a few weeks, with several sessions per week.

Format: online
Language: English, French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic
Topic: asylum/refugees, internal displacement, statelessness

The ELENA network extends across most European states and involves some 500 lawyers and legal counsellors. The network organises an advanced course on a yearly basis on various legal topics related to migration and asylum.

Format: in person and online
Language: English
Topic: asylum/refugees

The Odysseus Academic Network is offering a number of courses through its Summer School on EU Law and Policy on Immigration and Asylum.

Format: in person
Language: English and French
Topic: asylum/refugees

The HELP (Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals) platform of the Council of Europe cover various human rights related topics, reflecting the different areas of work of the Council of Europe, that not only focus on the European Convention on Human Rights but also other instruments like the European Social Charter or Council of Europe Conventions, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and other relevant EU law.

Format: online
Language: English and other languages
Topic: asylum/refugees, internal displacement

The UCLouvain, within the edX Platform, offers a course aimed at addressing the following questions such us: What is asylum? What is the principle of non-refoulement? and who should be recognized and protected as a refugee? To that end dully attention is payed to relevant sources such as the Geneva Convention, case-law, doctrine and guidelines of UNHCR and other international institutions on refugee issues and international human rights law.

Format: online
Language: English and French
Topic: asylum/refugees

The Centre for Refugee Studies of York University offers summer courses that provide an interdisciplinary, interactive and experiential approach to the study of forced migration. Through attending lectures and related small group sessions, course participants develop a deepened understanding of the political, economic, social and cultural contexts of forced migration, and the major state and non-state institutions involved in refugee protection and advocacy. Participants will  have an opportunity during the course for structured networking and idea collaboration through panels and small group discussion.

Format: hybrid
Language: English
Topic: asylum/refugees, other forced migration-related matters

The Universidad Veracruzana in collaboration with the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California and UNHCR offers a course on international refugee law, asylum law and other aspects of international protection.

Format: in person
Language: Spanish
Topic: asylum/refugees

The Faculty of Law of the Universidad de Buenos Aires offers a 3 month course on Migration and Refugees Protection course that addresses multiple questions related to migration, refugee law and international protection

Format: online
Language: Spanish
Topic: asylum/refugees

The TRALIM (Training of Lawyers on EU Immigration and Asylum Law) course series of the Europeans Lawyers Foundation is aimed at training European lawyers on immigration and asylum law and on the law relating to migrants who are in a vulnerable situation plus short visits to several European countries. The Foundation also makes available relevant training material on asylum and immigration.

Format: in person
Language: English
Topic: asylum/refugees

The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) is the first and the only human rights NGO dedicated to promoting the right to a nationality and the rights of stateless people globally and works together to counter discrimination and intolerance and promote inclusive societies by realising and protecting everyone’s right to a nationality. The Institute offers a signature global course on statelessness every year.

Format: online
Language: English
Topic: statelessness

The French course on Statelessness and Nationality Law is jointly organized by UNHCR and the Catholic University of Central Africa/Catholic Institute of Yaoundé (UCAC/ICY). The training is interdisciplinary and revolves around the following themes: (i) Issues, causes and consequences of statelessness; (ii) Anthropology, environment, nationality and statelessness; (iii) Role of UNHCR in the fight against statelessness; (iv) Identification and protection of stateless persons; (v) Prevention of statelessness; (vi) Civil status and statelessness.

Format: in person
Language: French
Topic: statelessness