Attracting foreign students from Tunisia

International educational fair for attracting foreign students for the academic year 2025–2026
Location

Tunisia (Africa)

Date

November  7–10, 2024

Price

From €2500

About the fair

How many foreign students do you need to attract to your university in the 2025–2026 academic year?
It's not an easy task and time is running out. The Belgian Education Council, as always, extends a helping hand and offers an efficient solution!

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the International Educational Fair for attracting foreign students from Tunisia (North Africa) to study in your countries in the 2025–2026 academic year.

A pilot group of representatives from universities in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan came to Tunisia in May 2024, where they had the opportunity to meet with potential applicants. Students were lining up at our booth, where there were representatives of ENU, Astana IT University, Abay Myrzakhmetov Kokshetau University, Andijan Machine-Building Institute and others. There was high interest in studying there. As a result, the idea was born to hold a fair to attract Tunisian students to your universities, where the region's cultural richness and a wide range of educational opportunities will be presented.

Goals

  • Recruiting interested students for the 2025–2026 academic year
  • Providing an opportunity to sign a contract with a local leading recruiting agency that will support each student before the start of their studies at your university
  • PR of your educational establishment in a new region with high potential for academic cooperation: mobility of students and teachers, joint applications for European grants, writing scientific articles
  • Signing memorandums with Tunisian universities
  • Promoting educational opportunities in your countries

Participants will be able to

Present all the educational opportunities
at the university (each university will have its own booth), meet and communicate with potential applicants

Collect contact information from applicants that can be passed on to a Tunisian educational recruiting company for guiding students through the payment process for the 2025-2026 academic year

Cope with other tasks of the International Department

Why should students from Tunisia be attracted?

  • The population of Tunisia is about 13 million.
    • Around 76,000 new students per year
    • Over 20,000 students leave to study abroad every year.
    Until 2022, most middle-class families preferred to send their children to study in Ukraine and Russia. But due to the current situation, this flow of students (more than 5,000 people) can now be redirected to other countries. Tunisians study in English and Russian.
  • Promotion in Tunisia is the first step towards entering Arab countries.

You are invited to participate

International department staff
Who can present their university in English
Vice-Rectors

Programme

7.11. Thursday

Arrival in Tunisia (capital)
  • Meeting and transfer from Tunis-Carthage International Airport to the hotel
  • Free time
Dinner

8.11. Friday

Breakfast Meetings with organizers and networking with foreign universities, format "Project Cafe (participants are divided into groups according to academic areas of cooperation and, in an informal setting, agree on future projects in the following areas): 
  • joint grant 
application
  • academic exchanges

  • creating master’s degree programs with a double degree

Lunch break
Preparation and participation in the educational fair
  • Preparation of handouts, presentations and souvenirs.
  • Meeting with interested applicants, collecting contacts, etc.
Dinner

9.11. Saturday

Breakfast
Work at the exhibition
  • Meeting with potential students, presentation of the educational establishment

  • Collecting contact forms of interested applicants.

Lunch break
Meetings and signing of memorandums at Tunisian universities
  • Discussion of cooperation opportunities, campus tours
Dinner

10.11. Sunday

Breakfast
Departure
Transfer to Tunis-Carthage International Airport

The cost of participation includes

For 1 representative

Accommodation
  • Double occupancy with a representative from another university in a 5-star hotel (additional charge of 300 euros for a single room)
Meals
  • Full board (breakfast, lunch, dinner)

Transfer
  • Transfer from/to Tunis-Carthage International Airport
  •  A rented bus as part of the programme
Participation in the fair
  • Booth for your university
  • Support by coordinators in English and Russian for participants
  • Issuance of a fair participant certificate
  • Opportunity to sign memorandums with Tunisian universities
  • Photo and video
Fair preparation
  • Advertising budget of over 10,000 euros (online, billboards, radio, influencers)
  • Conference room rental
  • Contact information of registered participants
  • Openness to participants' preferences at all stages of preparation

For 2 representatives from one university

Accommodation
  • Double occupancy in a 5-star hotel (additional charge of 300 euros for a single room)
Meals
  • Full board (breakfast, lunch, dinner)
Transfer
  • Transfer from/to Tunis-Carthage International Airport
  •  A rented bus as part of the programme

Participation in the fair
Booth for your university
  • Support by coordinators in English and Russian for participants
  • Issuance of a fair participant certificate
  • Opportunity to sign memorandums with Tunisian universities
  • Photo and video
Fair preparation
  • Advertising budget of over 10,000 euros (online, billboards, radio, influencers)
  • Conference room rental
  • Contact information of registered participants
  • Openness to participants' preferences at all stages of preparation

The cost does not include: airfare and travel insurance.

Visa-free entry 

The cost of participation includes

For 1 representative

Accommodation
  • Double occupancy with a representative from another university in a 5-star hotel (additional charge of 300 euros for a single room)
Meals
  • Full board (breakfast, lunch, dinner)

Transfer
  • Transfer from/to Tunis-Carthage International Airport
  •  A rented bus as part of the programme
Participation in the fair
  • Booth for your university
  • Support by coordinators in English and Russian for participants
  • Issuance of a fair participant certificate
  • Opportunity to sign memorandums with Tunisian universities
  • Photo and video
Fair preparation
  • Advertising budget of over 10,000 euros (online, billboards, radio, influencers)
  • Conference room rental
  • Contact information of registered participants
  • Openness to participants' preferences at all stages of preparation

The cost does not include: airfare and travel insurance.

Visa-free entry for participants 

Photo and video report on our visit to Tunisia in May 2024

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