{"id":4571,"date":"2018-10-31T11:09:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T11:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/?p=4571"},"modified":"2021-09-16T16:50:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T15:50:25","slug":"approaches-and-tools-for-internationalisation-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2018\/10\/31\/approaches-and-tools-for-internationalisation-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Approaches and Tools for Internationalisation at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sue Robson, Emerita Professor, School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Internationalization has become a key strategic priority in higher education (HE), posing both critical challenges and development opportunities for universities. While many HE institutions have an internationalisation strategy, approaches to internationalisation vary enormously. The number of international students and staff on roll, and the number of \u2018mobile\u2019 students and staff engaged in international research and teaching collaborations are highly regarded and prestigious indicators of quality and prestige in higher education institutions (Wihlborg and Robson, 2017).<\/p>\n

Increasingly, however, universities are seeking to develop more inclusive approaches that enable all students and staff -and particularly the non-mobile majority – to experience the underlying social, academic and intercultural learning benefits of an \u2018internationalised university experience\u2018 (Robson, Almeida and Schartner, 2018). One of the developing areas of interest for research and practice into the internationalization of higher education is the concept of Internationalization at Home (Almeida et al., 2018). This was the focus for the Approaches and Tools for Internationalisation at Home (ATIAH) Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships Project. Internationalisation at Home is one of the Key Priority Areas of the European Commission\u2019s Communication “European HE in the World”: \u2018Promoting internationalisation at home and digital learning\u2019 (COM\/2013\/499).<\/p>\n

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The ATIAH Project brought together a partnership of three leading European universities: Newcastle University, University of Bologna, and KU Leuven with interdisciplinary research perspectives from the fields of International Education, Intercultural Communication, Modern Languages, and Engineering Technology. The Project team set out to gather the perspectives of staff and students across these and other European institutions, on their experiences of Internationalisation at Home and to gather examples of innovative practice. The findings, together with a literature review, informed the development of materials to assist HE institutions to review, develop and communicate their approaches to Internationalisation at Home.<\/p>\n

The project produced three resources:<\/p>\n