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Creation of job fact sheets with a focus on higher education and research- Simone Bonnafous
March 29, 2024 | The French Hosting Program for Scientists and Artists in Exile (PAUSE)
Simone Bonnafous, Head of Academic and Professional Integration of Refugees for the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) France and the MEnS network, presents in the video the project leading to the creation of job fact sheets in the field of higher education and research. The creation of these fact sheets, carried out in collaboration with the PAUSE programme, was based on the testimonies of 16 PAUSE laureates on their professional integration after the programme. Based on real-life experiences, these fact sheets provide guidance to researchers in exile on how to enter the academic field in France.
The fact sheets are available on the Réfugiés.info website.
Tereza Barabash's testimony, a PAUSE laureate artist hosted at the EnsAD
December 10, 2023 | The French Hosting Program for Scientists and Artists in Exile (PAUSE)
On this year’s Human Rights Day and to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the PAUSE program invites you to discover the testimony of one of its laureates: Tereza Barabash.
This video presents the journey of this Ukrainian artist, who fled the war following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The PAUSE program has enabled her to regain personal and professional stability, and to pursue her artistic projects at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (EnsAD), where she is currently based.
The PAUSE programme, a powerful tool for defending academic freedom
November 29, 2023 | Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA)
Discover the PAUSE program's actions to support academic freedom through this video produced by the Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) for the conference entitled "Academic Freedom - The state of a fundamental value for Europe" and held on November 29, 2023.
Laura Lohéac, the program's Executive Director, also details concrete proposals for the promotion and safeguarding of academic freedom at the European level.
The STOA Panel is composed of Members of the European Parliament with the mission to examine issues relating to science and technology. In November 2022, the panel launched a European Parliament forum for academic freedom, designed as a discussion platform bringing together the European research community on this issue. The aim of this forum is to shed light on the state of academic freedom in Europe, and ultimately to produce monitoring instruments common to all Member States.
The "Academic Freedom - The state of a fundamental value for Europe" event on November 29, 2023 is a continuation of this initiative. To find out more about this event, visit the STOA Panel page: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/stoa/en/events/details/academic-freedom-the-state-of-a-fundamen/20231106WKS05781
Que fait la France pour les chercheurs en exil
November 14, 2024 | Campus France
On November 14 and 15, 2023, the Cité Universitaire Internationale de Paris (CIUP) was the host venue for the 4th edition of the Rencontres Campus France pour la Recherche et l'Innovation. This year, they were dedicated to the topic of "Scientific attractiveness: a springboard for international mobility". The PAUSE program was invited to speak on the subject of hosting exiled researchers.
In this video, you will hear the interventions of Laura Lohéac, Executive Director of the PAUSE program, and Abdulkarim Tutakhail, PAUSE scientific laureate hosted at the Université Paris-Saclay.
World Science Day For Peace and Development : Gulistan Sido's testimony
November 10, 2023 | French Hosting Program for Scientists and Artists in Exile (PAUSE)
To celebrate this year’s World Science Day For Peace and Development, the French Hosting Program for Scientists and Artists in Exile (PAUSE) invites you to discover the testimony of one of its laureates : Gulistan Sido.
This video focuses on the journey this Kurd scientist from Syria who fled her country in 2021 due to the escalation of the terrorist threat in her region of origin. The PAUSE program enabled her to be hosted at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) where she pursued her PhD in oral and written Kurdish literature.
Read her latest article : Ramazan Pertev, Gulsitan Sido, (2023), "L’enseignement de la littérature orale kurde en Turquie et en Syrie », Revue des oralités du monde, n°2,
Best-Of 2023 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women In Science International Awards Ceremony
July 7, 2023 | Fondation L'Oréal
Watch the 25th ceremony of the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women In Science International Awards.
The L’Oréal-UNESCO international awards For Women In Science are delivered, each year, to 5 women scientists in recognition of their careers and to foster their research.
To mark the 25th ceremony of these awards, 3 women scientists in exile received a special tribute to celebrate their journey and research. Among them, two laureates of the PAUSE program : Mursal Dawodi, an Afghan scientist doing research on artificial intelligence, and Ann Al Sawoor, an Iraqi scientist whose research focuses on mathematics.
You will also discover the speech delivered by Édith Heard, sponsor of the PAUSE program, and 2020 laureate of the international award For Women In Science.
To find out more about the For Women In Science awards, visit the For Women In Science page: https://www.forwomeninscience.com/
PAUSE: A program to support researchers and artists in exile
June 20, 2023 | French Ministry of Higher Education and Research
Discover this video focusing on the PAUSE program produced by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research on World Refugee Day.
The video highlights the objectives and activities of the PAUSE program, giving the floor to Laura Lohéac, the program's Executive Director, as well as to two of the program's laureates: Kateryna Dostensko, a veterinary medicine researcher from Ukraine who is currently hosted at the Institut Pasteur, and Laeiq Ahmadi, a doctoral student in archaeology from Afghanistan who is continuing his work at the University of Paris Nanterre.
The PAUSE program at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University
January 5, 2023 | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Discover the video presentation of the PAUSE program produced by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, outlining the program's history, objectives and key information, as well as its historic partnership with the university.
This video features several key actors of the program's management at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, including Christine Neau-Leduc, President of the University, Thomas Clay, who was responsible for coordinating the program at the university from 2020 to 2022, and Marie-Cécile Leconte, who is responsible for the program's administration at the university.
You will also hear testimonies from Zakiatou Oualet-Halatine, a program laureate hosted at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and Philippe Dupichot, her scientific advisor.
Solidarity Ukraine : Nataliia Naumova’s, a scientist supported by the FRM and PAUSE, shares her testimony on her journey
December 1, 2022 | Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM)
Discover PAUSE’s Ukraine Emergency Fund (Fonds d'Urgence Solidarité-Ukraine) through Nataliia Naumova’s testimony, a PAUSE laureate on the cover of our 2022 Activity Report.
The Fonds d'Urgence Solidarité-Ukraine was launched in March 2022 to support scientists fleeing the war in Ukraine. A total of 132 scientists benefited from this fund. Among them, Nataliia Naumova, a biology and biochemistry researcher, hosted at the Institut Gustave Roussy, thanks to the support of PAUSE and the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM).
In this video produced by the FRM you will discover Nataliia Naumova's scientific career, before and since her arrival in France, through her powerful testimony.
PAUSE thanks the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale for its precious support.
PAUSE Program - Sciences & Arts in exile
November 18, 2022 | Collège de France
Discover the event Sciences & Arts in exile organised by the PAUSE program !
On October 2, 2019, the PAUSE program held an event entitled "Sciences & Arts en exil" at the Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, under the auspices of the Collège de France. The aim of this event was to raise awareness on the issue of exile, and to rally public and private stakeholders in favour of welcoming scientists and artists in danger.
The powerful testimonies shared during the evening were a reminder of the need to involve everyone on this issue. At a time when nationalism and authoritarianism are on the rise, the PAUSE programme proves to be more useful than ever. Its values of solidarity, freedom and openness, as well as its intellectual, scientific and artistic promise, open up new horizons for researchers and artists at-risk.
The PAUSE Program at the Université Paris-Cité
June 27, 2022 | Université Paris-Cité
Discover the partnership between the PAUSE program and the Université Paris Cité to host scientists in danger and forced into exile. Since 2018, more than eleven male and female researchers have been able to work in Université Paris Cité’s laboratories thanks to this partnership.
This video, produced by Université Paris Cité, introduces the testimonies of two PAUSE laureates: Mohamed Takook (Iran) welcomed at the AstroParticle and Cosmology Laboratory (APC) and Tayebe Musavi (Afghanistan) who works at the Centre de Recherche Psychanalyse Médecine et Société (CRPMS).
Interview with Pascale Laborier, curator of the exhibition Poser pour la liberté.
April 21, 2021 | La Cité du design
The exhibition Standing for Freedom, supported by the PAUSE programme, is part of the RESTRICA project (Regards sur les exils scientifiques contraints d'hier et d'aujourd'hui) and relates into words and images the journey of scientists and artists forced into exile. Over a two-year period, portraits of exiled scientists and artists and their hosts were produced. Several PAUSE laureates and their host institutions took part in this project. The RESTRICA project is the result of a collaboration between academic Pascale Laborier and photographer Pierre-Jérôme Adjedj. It grew out of their dialogue on the representation of scientific exile, involving the people photographed. Through an interplay of transparency, faces mingle with symbolic fragments to retrace these life paths. They sometimes disappear to preserve the anonymity of these threatened scientists.
To find out more about the RESTRCIA project, visit the website : https://www.standingforfreedom.eu/
PAUSE programme: "Saving lives, saving ideas"
September 28, 2021 | TV5 Monde
Discover PAUSE through a broadcast of the TV programme “Grand Angle” on TV5 Monde.
In this broadcast you will discover the history, activities and objectives of the PAUSE program presented by Laura Lohéac, Executive Director of the program, and Belgheis Jafari, an Afghan teacher at Inalco and laureate of the program. The interviews were conducted in the context of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, which is addressed through the perspective of scientific exile.