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Trends in Internationalisation Policy
Valère Meus – Head of IRO
Ghent University - Belgium
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Four main functions within the IRO:
1. Communication & Marketing: to promote the
university as a partner for international cooperation
2. Policy Development & advice and support:
to help develop an institutionalised international
policy, act as a “centre of expertise”
3. Programme Management & Coordination: to
promote and support participation in international
cooperation programmes
4. Logistics of International Mobility: to facilitate
the mobility of students & staff
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1.Communication & marketing
• Providing information about international
programmes
• International promotion: English information, joint guest
professor policy, participation in conferences and fairs,
strategic alliances and networks, international alumni
activities
• International recruitment: start-up and consultation with
other departments & faculties (where, which
programmes, resources), international programmes in
English
• Possible partners: local, national, regional alliances,
networks …
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2. Policy development
• Bologna: national legislation on higher education, UGent
decrees
follow-up of recent evolutions: accreditation, flexibility,
competence oriented education, European Qualification
Framework (EQF), …
• FCI & Central Admin (faculty committees of internationalisation)
maximising and officialising their roles
• Proposal for a platform of internationalisation within the central
administration, to improve interaction and detect shortcomings
(cf. China Platform)
• Internationalisation @ home: non-mobile students, foreign
students and professors, English materials, international curricula
• International marketing
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Policy development in practice
-Regional alliances
-European Programmes
-International networks
-Joint programmes
-Associations
-Integrating private industry and authorities
-Marketing
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3. Programme management and
coordination
• Finding new external funding possibilities (North-America & Asia)
• Preference for ‘equal’ partners rather than purely supporting
projects
• Larger involvement of faculties in institutional projects
• Clear division of tasks between IRO and promotor: proposal and
budgetting, implementation and administration, reporting
• Stimulating non-active professors : implies trying to obtain official
recognition for internationalisation activities within their careers
• Database with all international projects
• Financial management of external and central funds
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4. Logistics of international mobility
• Trying to find a balance between incoming - outgoing
students
• Faculties: recognition of ECTS credits obtained abroad +
indicating where mobility is possible within new BA/MA
structure
• Overview of all possiblities and grants -> a SPOC function
is the ideal scenario
• Defining and remediating obstacles
• Additional mobility possibilities outside Erasmus (bilateral
agreements, networks,…)
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UGent institutional strategy:
further policy
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Involvement of international student organisations
International alumni (Erasmus Mundus)
Shortage of accommodation and facilities
Defining and remediating language knowledge of
exchange students
- Orienting exchange students towards enrolment for a
Master programme
- Incentive funding
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History & structure: the IRO
Head IRO
Management/Project Officers
Student
Adviser
Incoming
Students
Student
Adviser
Outgoing
Students
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Project administrator
Secretary
Accountant
Overview of types of int’l cooperation
EC programmes
Lifelong Learning Programme
-Erasmus
- Comenius
- Lingua - Minerva
-Grundtvig
-Thematic
Other programmes
Interuniversity bilateral agreements
International educational
cooperation projects (Flemish
Community)
Networks
- Leonardo da Vinci
Tempus (Cards – Tacis - Meda)
Alfa / Alban
Atlantis /EU- Canada /Australia/NZ
Asia-Link / Asia Pro-Eco
Jean Monnet
Erasmus Mundus
Edulink
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PEACE
Other initiatives: e.g. Santander
Group
A. EC-Programmes in detail: LLP
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/socrates.html
EC programme for cooperation in the field of education
Divided in sub-programmes:
-ERASMUS: mobility programme for higher education (student & staff mobility,
curriculum development & intensive programmes)
-MINERVA: ICT in education
-GRUNDTVIG: adult education
-COMENIUS: school education
-LINGUA: language teaching and learning
- Leonardo Da Vinci
-Thematic Networks
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A. EC-programmes in detail: TEMPUS
http://www.etf.eu.int/
Cooperation between EU and Eastern Europe & Central Asia
(Tacis), the countries of the Western Balkan (Cards) or the
Mediterranean (Meda).
-TEMPUS/CARDS
-TEMPUS/TACIS
-TEMPUS/MEDA
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A. EC-programmes in detail: ALFA /
ALBAN
ALFA:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/projects/alfa/index_en.ht
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Cooperation programme between EU and Latin-America in the field
of education
ALBAN:
http://www.programalban.org
individual scholarships for Latin American students and
professionals > EU
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A. EC programmes: Atlantis (EU-US)
http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/eu-usa/call_en.html
Main goal:
The main focus of Atlantis is on supporting innovative projects for
cooperation in the higher education field, including vocational training,
which are designed to develop and implement double or joint “transatlantic
degrees” for students in the EU and U.S.
Actions under Atlantis:
ACTION 1 – Transatlantic Degree Consortia Projects
ACTION 2 - Excellence (Follow-up) Mobility Projects
ACTION 3 - Policy-oriented Measures
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A. EC-programmes: Erasmus Mundus
http:europe.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/mundus/
index_en.htm
• prepare citizens for global society
• Ensure world-wide recognition of European universities as centre of
excellence
• Remain at leading edge of developments
• Contribute to cultural understanding
• Improve quality of higher education in Europe
• Promote intercultural understanding through co-operation with third
countries
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A. EC-programmes: Edulink
http://www.acp-edulink.eu/
- new programme with ACP-countries
- to foster capacity building and regional integration in the
field of HE through institutional networking & support quality
HE relevant to socio-economic needs
- 3 levels
– Institutional/administrative
– Academic
– Research and Technology strengthening
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B. Int’l programmes in detail: Institutional Bilateral
Cooperation
An institutional policy instrument to anticipate and support
programmes by:
- generating external finances
- creating benefits for students and staff
- activating new initiatives
- providing incentives
Currently approx. worldwide 70 bilateral agreements
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Int’l programmes in detail: Cooperation
programme with Central-and Eastern Europe
http://docs.vlaanderen.be/buitenland/deelsites/centraalenoosteuropa.
htm
pillar I: post-accession model (co-operation with the 8 new
member states)
pillar II: pre-accession support for Bulgaria, Rumania and
Croatia
pillar III: support to the new neighbours (Ukraine)
 Projects funded by Flemish government, with Flemish promotors and
COE partners (for pillar II: 85%)
 Different approach per pillar
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Int’l programmes in detail: Cooperation
programme with Central-and Eastern Europe
Possible activities:
promotion activities, establishing networks, stimulating
twinnings among cities, stimulating bilateral co-operation
among chambers of commerce, trilateral co-operation with
countries from the new neighbourhood, co-financing Interreg
projects, initial costs for participation in projects in the
framework of EU-programmes, bilateral film festivals or
promotional cultural events, conferences and co-operation
on regionalisation in Europe
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Int’l programmes in detail: Santander
Group
http://sgroup.be/
•European Universities' Network (45 partners) with the aims
of establishing special academic, cultural and socioeconomic ties
•Setting up specific and advanced facilities as well as
privileged channels of information and exchange
•Encourage contacts between universities and their
surrounding communities or regions on matters related to
social and technological development
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contact
International Relations Office
Onderbergen 4 a-c
B-9000 Gent
Belgium
Phone: +32-9-264.82.34
Fax: +32-9-264.83.99
www.international.ugent.be
E-mail: [email protected]
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