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University of Galway has announced plans to celebrate Irish Traveller Ethnicity Week with a week-long series of events across campus.

University of Galway is now accepting applications for the Universities of Sanctuary Scholarship Programme for 2023-24.

Anne Marie Stokes is a woman on a mission. She is the second person, and first woman, to fill the role of Traveller Education Officer for University of Galway, and is driven by a desire to bring about change through one of the world's most powerful tools, education.

The Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) has been designated a University of Sanctuary in recognition of its efforts to make higher education more welcoming and inclusive of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants.

Foróige, the youth development organisation, has joined forces with GMIT to run a mentoring programme at the local third level college.

A group of 22 female Afghan refugees have been welcomed to NUI Galway to learn about the opportunities for higher education at the University.

NUI Galway has announced it will offer 12 scholarships for the 2021/22 academic year for international protection applicants, refugees, vulnerable immigrant groups, and Irish Travellers.

The achievements of Owen Ward were celebrated at a socially distanced Mayoral reception in Leisureland last Friday.

NUI Galway recently opened its University of Sanctuary scholarship programme to potential applicants. The scholarship programme is open to international protection applicants, refugees, Irish Travellers, and vulnerable immigrant groups, and is part of a broader effort by the university as a designated University of Sanctuary to widen participation among underrepresented groups.

Owen Ward, an Irish Traveller and a professional master of education student at NUI Galway, has been elected by postgraduate students onto the university’s Údarás na hOllscoile — the university’s governing body. This is the first time that an Irish Traveller has been elected onto a university governing body in Ireland.