MEnS, the network of French institutions committed to welcoming students in exile

The MEnS network was founded in September 2017 with the support of France Universités. It groups together and coordinates higher education institutions (France Universités, schools, institutes) and associations, committed to the reception and integration of students and researchers in exile in France. 

The members of the MEnS network share the same desire to increase their efforts to help integrate migrant students and work to promote the sharing of experiences, the pooling of information and tools and a dialogue with political institutions.

As such, they set out to alert the public authorities and develop specific responses to the challenges encountered by the institutions that receive the refugee or asylum-seeking students and researchers: access to studies, recognition of degree qualifications, French courses, coordination of activities on a local and national level...

The Campus France Forum has supported the MEnS network since 2017 thanks to the work of the workshop dedicated to the sharing of best practices with regard to the reception of migrant students and researchers in France. Mathieu Schneider, Vice Président of the University of Strasbourg and coordinator of the MEnS network, has, among other accomplishments, been able to propose a series of initiatives promoting reflection and the coordination of actions.