U.S. universities are certainly not the only ones challenged to be more inclusive towards traditionally marginalized students. But despite their shared missions, colleges devoted to serving disenfranchised students around the world rarely collaborate on strategies to make their institutions and higher education more accessible.

That’s why the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education has partnered with Salzburg Global Seminar to launch the first ever international meeting on the inclusion of students who face ethnic, religious or financial discrimination.

The five-day seminar — “Students at the Margins and the Institutions that Serve Them” — begins Oct. 11 in Austria where Salzburg is headquartered. The goal is to launch a global conversation on creating more equitable societies where all students have the opportunity to attain higher education. The conference will include networking between individuals and institutions  that have traditionally served marginalized students, create a database of those institutions and their research, identify successful strategies and discuss how education has influenced immigration around the world.