Staff Training and Teaching Week and The 7th Exploratory Workshop Internationalisation of Higher Education: Challenges and Rewards

It is our great pleasure to invite you to  The 7th Exploratory Workshop Internationalisation of Higher Education: Challenges and Rewards, organized int he period 9-13 November 2020 (we welcome staff also within the Erasmus Staff Teaching and Erasmus Staff Training mobility).

Workshop aims:

- Finding better ways to manage institutional processes and communication in relation to internationalisation;

- Fostering collaboration, networking and knowledge sharing;

- Enhancing the communication component of the internationalisation strategy through promoting mobility programs, university programs, facilities, opportunities and internationalisation aspects;

- Analysing the institutional means through which universities can embed in their internationalisation strategies the recommendations of the European Commission regarding international student and staff mobility; the internationalisation and improvement of curricula and digital learning; and strategic cooperation, partnerships and capacity building;

- Sharing good practices and international strategies for promoting global values, interculturality and multiculturality with organizations focused on education, culture, arts and sciences.

Higher education institutions engage in internationalisation for a variety of reasons, and generally several different drivers are concurrently at work:

To prepare students for ‘global citizenship’;

To prepare students for the global labour market;

To enhance the quality of teaching and research;

To strengthen institutional capacity;

To enhance prestige and visibility;

To generate revenue;

To contribute to local and regional economic development;

To contribute to generating knowledge on global issues;

To solve global problems;

Workshop agenda:

Based on the aims we set forth in organizing the workshop, we welcome individual presentations in the following areas:

I. International mobility of students and staff

II. Internationalisation at home and digital learning

III. Strengthening strategic cooperation, partnerships and capacity building