Kiron Open Higher Education was founded in Berlin, Germany as a nonprofit non governmental organization.
We aim to provide refugees and local citizens with free higher education and guidance to transfer to a partner university
You can contact the Jordan office on [email protected]
and the Lebanon office on [email protected] The goal of Kiron is to provide people and especially refugees, worldwide, with the opportunity to get higher education and eventually graduate with an internati
onally accredited university degree. There are more than 6.5 million refugees world wide that are qualified to be enrolled at a higher educational institution. However, the main problems standing between them and the acquisition of their basic human right range from the lack of financial resources, to the absence of required legal documents, to the extremely small number of available seats at the universities of the host countries, as well as language barriers. Our project aims to tackle these challnges by offering absolutely free higher education, and granting an internationally accredited degree after graduation. Not setting a deadline for the submission of the legal notarized documents, but giving the students time until their last days before graduation. Since Kiron is online, we solve the capacity issue since we will be able accept all the students that we need to take in. We solve the language issue by offering our courses in English, the number one most widely spoken second language in the world. We also offer language courses for people whose language is not yet on an academic level. Our team consists of entrepreneurs, IT-specialists, web designers and of course, the academic staff who partly worked at Harvard and other world-leading institutions before, who bring a lot of experience in founding a real university. The Jordan office opened in January 2017 and we currently have more than 5 local partner universities. This page is made to keep you updated on the progress of the project: Kiron Open Higher Education. Through this page you will be able to follow all the events that the Kiron team is attending or organizing, any updates on our website, any new achievements and/or developments that take place. Also, we will be posting scholarships, fellowships and grants opportunities provided by different organizations and educational institutions worldwide. If you share our vision in providing the less privileged people with an opportunity of getting free higher education and ultimately a better life, or you would like to be one of our full time students, or study certain courses independently, please visit our website in order to get further information and follow this page. Moreover, use your voice to share it so that it reaches the biggest number of people. Hand in hand we will be able to make a change in this world.
