Trinity Sanctuary Fund
The Trinity Sanctuary Fund was initially established in response to the huge challenges faced by displaced students and scholars. The fund now supports the University of Sanctuary work across Trinity.
Through its University of Sanctuary work, Trinity provides scholarships, financial support, language supports and additional services to students of sanctuary. Through community initiatives on campus, Trinity also seeks to build solidarity and friendship between university communities, local people and those seeking sanctuary in Ireland.
This includes the University of Sanctuary Undergraduate Scholarship programme which provides tuition fees, a monthly stipend and tailored support services for the duration of a four-year undergraduate degree to excellent students in the Irish International Protection system.
When we support displaced students and researchers through the Trinity Sanctuary Fund we are sending them a powerful message: that they belong at Trinity and deserve to be here. It shows that we value their contribution, and that when we place access, equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our mission, these are not just words. They are values that we embody as a community.
Through Trinity Global, Trinity Access Programmes and our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) strategy, Trinity is uniquely placed to offer sanctuary. Asylum seekers, displaced students and scholars coming to Trinity enter an environment where they are not made to feel different. They encounter others like them, coming from different countries, or overcoming significant obstacles to access education. They find a university which, through long experience, has anticipated their needs and developed a suite of targeted programmes for concrete assistance. And they find themselves part of a community which prioritises academic freedom and civic engagement and which seeks to understand, through research, the issues that create global conflict and migration.
Trinity’s University of Sanctuary work complements Trinity College Dublin’s membership of and involvement with Scholars at Risk and the New University in Exile Consortium. To learn more about Trinity’s University of Sanctuary work, click here.
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