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It all started with a brief encounter, I am told. At a conference on refugees, Vincent Zimmer and Markus Kressler met for the first time. Vincent and Markus quickly realized that they shared the same vision: that of a university 2.0, enabling a greater public to have access to higher education, especially refugees. After initial talks with universities, MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) providers and decision makers from politics, business and science, Kiron was founded in the beginning of 2015 with the vision of empowering its students to self-determine in their lives, by offering them access to higher education. Thanks to the extraordinary support of a great number of volunteers and a successful social-crowdfunding campaign, the first students were able to start studying in October 2015.
