“In 2016, a team of academics at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary, put together a proposal to start education programmes for displaced students across Europe, called Open Learning Initiative (OLIve), within a European consortium, Refugee Education Initiatives (REIs). These programmes recognised the role of quality education in protecting refugees and promoted sustainable solutions to the challenges they face in their adopted environments. Hence, in response to the rising number of refugees arriving in Europe at the time, it aimed to extend access to university education. This would be achieved through offering pre-sessional courses to refugee learners aspiring to study in European universities via OLIve. The programme would take place in Budapest, Vienna and London in 2016-2018 and Budapest, Vienna, London, Berlin and Thessaloniki in 2018-2020. It presented the opportunity to share knowledge and best practice across the consortium to improve access to universities around Europe. [...]Many universities in Europe extended their offers at the same time. [...] However, it is worth noting that these universities’ responses also coincided with a rise in right-wing political discourse, tougher immigration control and new bordering regimes throughout Europe.”-Lounasmaa, Masserano, Oddy and Harewood (2020) This episode offers a round-up of OLIve's organisation and structure in its various locations at Bard College Berlin, Central European University, Budapest, University of East London, Aristotle University at Thessaloniki and University of Vienna.