Speakers
Poster session
In a context of declining academic freedom worldwide, there is an increasing need to offer researchers at risk an opportunity to continue their work in a secure environment. The SAFE project is implementing a fellowship scheme to integrate at-risk researchers into host institutions in Europe. This poster session will look at solutions for overcoming obstacles, good practices in hosting services, the monitoring of researchers’ well-being and recommendations for scaling up and sustainability.
Louise Watts is Head of European Projects at Campus France, the French national agency for the promotion of higher education, student and researcher mobility and hosting services for international students.
Louise is responsible for developing and overseeing a portfolio of EU-funded projects in areas relating to the internationalisation of higher education, academic mobility, higher education promotion and support to refugees. She manages a multicultural team and initiates and implements activities with European and international partner organisations.
Louise is a member of the European Commission's working group on Youth Mobility for Africa.
Prior to joining Campus France in 2004, Louise worked at the Centre international d'études pédagogiques (now known as France Education International) as Programme Manager and taught at the Universities of Bretagne-Sud and Rennes I.
Louise has a Master's degree in linguistics and is a qualified teacher.