ACA Seminar: Mobility windows and the internationalisation of the curriculum.

Academic Cooperation Association is taking a fresh look at various practices and blueprints of internationalisation of the curriculum and structured mobility at the next policy seminar which will be held on 5 December in Brussels (Belgium). Participants of the seminar entitled Mobility windows and the internationalisation of the curriculum, will deal with questions of how internationalisation is perceived and supported at the EU level and how mobility windows and other types of structured mobility can be integrated into international academic portfolios in order to support internationalisation of the curriculum.

The programme of the seminar is as follows:

Wednesday 4 December

19.00

Seminar dinner

Thursday 5 December

08.30	Registrations and coffee
09.00	Welcome and introduction Bernd Wächter, Director, ACA (Brussels, Belgium)
09.15	Opening keynote 1
	Comprehensive internationalisation Jeroen Huisman, Professor Higher Education Governance, Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium)
10.00	Opening keynote 2
	Internationalisation – the view of the European Union Claire Morel, Deputy Head of Unit „International Cooperation and programmes”, European Commission (Brussels, Belgium)
10.45	Coffee break
	Part I: Mobility windows
11.15	Mobility windows-clarifying an 'elastic concept' Irina Ferencz, Policy Officer, ACA (Brussels, Belgium)
12.00	Parallel workshops
	Mobility windows for internships Chair: Irina Ferencz Speaker: Gerrit Schreiber, Team Manager DMA and External Relations, Saxion Hospitaliy Business School (Deventer, The Netherlands)
	Windows for studies Chair: Kristina Hauschildt, Researcher, HIS (Hannover, Germany) Speaker: Judith Peltz, Director of the International Office, University of Vechta (Vechta, Germany)
	Double and joint degree programmes: windows by definition? Chair: Irma Garam, Research Manager, CIMO (Helsinki, Finland) Speaker: Ilkka Mikkonen, Head of degree programme/ Senior lecturer, Oulu University of Applied Sciences (Oulu, Finland)
13.15	Sandwich lunch
	Part II: Internationalisation of the curriculum
14.15	Internationalising the curriculum Jos Beelen, Senior Policy Advisor, Hogeschool Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
15.00	A mixed, comprehensive approach – bridging strategy with DNA, involving ALL staff and students Franka van den Hende, Senior Policy Advisor, University of Groningen (Groningen, The Netherlands)
15.30	The internationalisation strategy of the Universiteit Antwerpen Piet van Hove, Head International, University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium)
16.00	The internationalisation strategy of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel Jacqueline Couder, Head International Relations Office, VUB (Brussels, Belgium) (tbc)
16.30	Feeding back on the seminar Christian Tauch, Head of the Education Department, Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (Bonn, Germany)
17.00	Wrap-up and goodbye

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