DU Hospitality, Mediations, Migrations (H2M)

Registrations for Inalco's "Hospitality, Mediations, Migrations" DU H2M university diploma will be open from May 15 to June 20, 2025. The DU H2M aims to professionalize mediators specialized in contemporary migrations.

Today, the function of mediator-interpreter in a migratory context exists in the field: it is most often exercised by volunteer exiles who respond to a linguistic and cultural need of those involved in welcoming people.
Since it requires significant skills, know-how and specific interpersonal skills, the DU H2M aims to train professional mediators and have this profession officially recognized as one of the essential keys to welcoming people.

The DU H2M aims to:

• Professionalize students' language skills and cultural resources and provide both theoretical and practical baggage.
• Enable students to master the issues involved in welcoming exiled people to France by offering both theoretical and practical learning. It sheds light on the historical, legal and administrative context of reception arrangements, while integrating an inclusive and collaborative approach through the analysis of professional practices, workshops and internships. It thus fosters in-depth reflection on the challenges and specificities of mediation and interpreting in a migratory context, adapting them to the constraints specific to migration.
• Encourage the development of the profession of mediator-interpreter within associations or institutions specializing in the reception of people with migrant backgrounds.

+ In brief

Target audience: mediators and NGO facilitators welcoming people in migration situations, local authority social workers, social workers, refugees, asylum seekers and exiles whatever their administrative status. Motivation for mediation is essential.

Training dates: from September 29, 2025 to June 30, 2026

Duration: 160 h + 70h minimum internship (the DU is compatible with a job as courses will take place in the evenings from 6pm to 8pm)

Rates:

• Individual registration: student rates if initial training (tarifs licence)

or

• tarif salariés formation continue
  • inscription entreprise et association : 1000 euros
  • plan de formation Pôle Emploi : 700 euros

Possibilité d'exemption de droit d'inscription pour les réfugiés, demandeurs d'asile et exilés, sur dossier. See with the secretariat.
*For more info on possible financing, please click here.

Applications

The campaign will be open from May 15 to June 20, 2025.

For those without regular internet access, please contact: duh2m.inalco@gmail.com.

Registration requirements

• Mastery of a language of migration that is one of the languages taught at Inalco
• motivation for the profession of interpreter-mediator in a migratory context
• at least a B2 level in oral/written French
• at least a Bac level or a Bachelor's degree

Attention:

• A commission will meet to consider applications from candidates who do not hold a bachelor's degree, as there will be the possibility of claiming foreign diplomas.
• The DU H2M does not guarantee enrolled students access to a scholarship (CROUS) or housing.
• As our courses take place in the afternoon, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, four days a week, they do not conflict with your daily professional activity.
• For students definitively admitted, a certificate of attendance and an INALCO student card will be issued, also offering access to the BULAC library.
  
  From June 27 to July 17, 2025: feedback on applications
  From September 8 to 22, 2025: admission interviews 
  Coordinating team:
• Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky, DUH2M director, Inalco
• Alexandra Galitzine-Loumpet, co-coordinator, CESSMA, Inalco, ICM
• Abdul-Hakim HAMIDI, DUH2M pedagogical coordinator, Inalco: duh2m.inalco@gmail.com