Looking Ahead - Global Mobility Week

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Florenica Roncone (UC Chile), Katarina Wingkvist & Fanni Faegersten (Lund University)

The concept of Internationalisation at home has been promoted as a strategy to strengthen global learning without losing the local context. However, its development depends on how this concept is understood and promoted, taking into account the cultural diversity of the institution where it is carried out. In this shared session, Lund University and UC Chile present how they have developed their strategies to promote internationalisation at home, the facilitators and barriers they have faced, in order to open the discussion with the other members of the U21 network to share good practice and other experiences.

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Maribel Florez (UC Chile), Eve Brosseau (UCD) & Amber Bartlett (U21)

Hear an overview of the work and achievements of the U21 Mobility Group in 2021 and the new co-chairs' vision for the coming year.

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Maggie Wootton (University of Birmingham) & Isobel Mosley (University of Nottingham)

Increasing participation in study or work abroad programmes of students from under-represented backgrounds has become a strategic priority for many HE institutions. This session explored widening participation collaboration projects delivered by U21 partners before and during the pandemic, using the University of Nottingham and the University of Birmingham as a case study. Attendees were invited to explore how we can work together across the network to address discrepancies in the take up of mobility opportunities by under-represented students, considering our previous experiences as well as new opportunities, for example the Turing scheme in the UK.

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John Bennett (University of Edinburgh), Guido de Wilde (University of Amsterdam) & Cathering Convery (UCD)

TICKET (Transnational Intercultural Competence through Knowledge Exchange and Training) and DIGIPASS are multi-university partnerships including several European U21 partners. TICKET aims to enhance Intercultural Competence across the higher education sector and DIGIPASS is designed to improve the impact of mobility experiences for students by providing a holistic approach to online mobility support. These projects have created unique online student training programmes, incorporate a range of ICT tools and open educational resources, to support students during each stage of the mobility life cycle and also created a staff toolkits to support professional services staff working in student mobility.

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Kelsey Prima (University of Maryland) & Abigail Lalor (UCD)

International collaboration has become increasingly easier as universities around the world have moved into the virtual space, and the means to track these collaborations have also rapidly developed. With the rise of partnerships databases also comes an increase in questions surrounding the use of these tools. What information do we want to collect about these partnerships? How much data is too much? What database is best to display that information? Who has access to this data? This session looks at partnerships databases from the University of Maryland, College Park and University College Dublin and explores the advantages and challenges of managing a university-wide database of international collaborations and agreements.

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Clare Mander, Katrina Sandy (UNSW) & Pia Mendiburu (UC Chile)

Both UC Chile and UNSW Sydney’s strategic plans for the coming years include increasing international opportunities for students. While working towards this goal, our teams have also been analysing the accessibility of learning abroad programs specifically looking at the participation of students from underrepresented groups. Through collaboration with various areas of our universities we have worked to identify the potential barriers these students may face in participating and have each launched programs and initiatives at our respective universities aimed at addressing these inequities and ensuring that the unique learning experience that studying abroad provides is available to all students.

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Martin Charlier (Lund University) & Shane Lordan (UCD)

This session featured insights from Lund University of their experience of using integration between IT systems to support management of mobility data and from UCD on using data modelling to review partnership agreements and what is 'normal' for mobility balances.