Course offers innovative thinking in business

Gerry Callaghan 2020-11-09

NUI Galway includes refugees and asylum-seekers in this programme.

TechInnovate, a study centre at the NUI University in Galway, is running a six-week course starting Sunday 15 November. It’s aimed at people wanting to get advanced skills in setting up businesses with a technological emphasis.

Topics covered will include:

Entrepreneurial skills
Importing of food and fashion products
Design thinking.

Refugees and International Protection Applicants will be made aware of alternative ways to become a student at NUI Galway.

To register, contact dignitypartners@gmail.com/joseph.nyirenda@nuigalway.ie/

Phone numbers: 089 2546155 or 086 852 8550.

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FAQ’s

We are a front line refugee support group mainly working on the Lissywollen Direct Provision site in Athlone. Our focus is on providing information and help to the 300 (on average) residents living there.

We also work on the Temple Direct Provision site in Horseleap, Moate.

Everyone in the DP sites in Athlone and Temple is what is described as a ‘Convention’ refugee. People who have arrived in Ireland under a United Nations resettlement program are known as ‘Programme’ refugees.

Convention refugees are people who have made their own way to Ireland and have applied for recognition of refugee status when they arrive.

Various official and unofficial routes and methods are used to travel to Ireland. These change continually, depending on weather conditions and enforcement levels at crossings.

On arrival people are normally housed for a few weeks in Baleskin, near Dublin airport. They are then dispersed to various direct provision centres around the country.

People can get protection if they meet the conditions set out in The United Nations Convention on Protection of Refugees.

See Definition of a Refugee

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