TY - JOUR A1 - Mends, Lisa A1 - Ghanem, Aimée A1 - Al-Hamouri, Farah Z. T1 - Sustainable Development Goals and social work in the migration context – a higher education dialogue between Germany, Jordan, and Lebanon JF - Social Work Education N2 - Germany, Jordan, and Lebanon’s social, political, and socio-economic structures are influenced by a long history of them receiving refugees and migrants. This was a starting point for the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg (Germany), the German Jordanian University, Yarmouk University (Jordan), and the Lebanese University to engage in an intercultural and professional exchange project on social work in the field of (forced) migration. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) served as a conceptual framework to examine the lives of refugees, community development and social cohesion in receiving societies, and the role of social work in this context. The project concept focused on engaging in cultural dialogue, linking theory to practice, and fostering academic exchange through research projects. The paper provides practical insights into and reflections on the international dialogue project that proved to be an insightful learning experience for students and staff even in exceptional times of crises, exploring the relevance of SDGs for a profiled social work profession and scientific discipline. KW - International Social Work KW - Social Work Education KW - Sustainable Development Goals KW - Refugees KW - academic exchange KW - cultural exchange KW - international cooperation KW - experience-based learning Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02615479.2022.2089646?journalCode=cswe20 VL - 41 IS - 7 SP - 1525 EP - 1540 ER -