Dear subscriber,

The IntlUni project was officially completed on 30 September, and we now have the pleasure of sending you the 7th and final IntlUni Newsletter.

In the course of the three-year project, IntlUni partners have pursued the aim of identifying quality criteria that should characterize teaching and learning in the multilingual and multicultural learning space. This has been achieved by developing the IntlUni Principles. Secondly, the aim has been to develop recommendations for how higher education institutions may develop and implement quality teaching and learning in this multilingual and multicultural space. This has been done in the development of the IntlUni Recommendations.

Recognizing the difference in agency among the actors involved, the IntlUni Principles comprise the quality of the educational environment (the higher education institution), the educational processes (organized by the teacher in the classroom) and the educational outcomes (the students’ learning). The IntlUni Recommendations target the higher education institutions, the national or regional authorities, and the European organisations involved in the development of the European Higher Education Area.

The final document can be found on the IntlUni website.

I should like to take the opportunity to thank you for your interest in the IntlUni Erasmus Academic Network. It is now up to the individual higher education institutions within and outside the Network to take the IntlUni Principles and Recommendations on board. While the project has been completed, the Network still exists, the website will continue to be open as a resource for stakeholders in the internationalization of higher education, and the social media sites will continue to carry news in this field. Among other things, in future, we will announce publications and events based on IntlUni on those sites.

Karen M. Lauridsen

IntlUni Coordinator

The IntlUni Erasmus Academic Network led by Karen M Lauridsen, associate professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, has concluded its work with the publication of its final report at a celebratory conference in Brussels.

The final report includes recommendations for addressing the opportunities and challenges of internationalization in European higher education. It is the culmination of three years’ work by 38 partners across 27 European countries.

On 24 September 2015, the IntlUni project held its final conference in Brussels, in the Salle des Miroirs of the Brussels Parliament. The event, Towards mastering the challenges of the international classroom, brought together over a 100 participants from the 38 partner universities, as well as external experts, higher education leaders and representatives from key European associations. The event saw the presentation and discussion of the project’s findings and captured the diversity and richness of the European higher education sector in the 21st century.

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The three-year IntlUni project has now completed its work, but for many project partners, it has become the beginning of a dialogue within their institutions about the internationalisation of education that will continue long into the future.

Part of the projects activities included an Impact and Exploitation study, which was conducted by the IntlUni work package leaders Don Peckham, Janina Cünnen and Andreas Kolb in cooperation with the management team in Aarhus. They observed that the project had been an influence in several areas: the practice of teachers in Higher Education (HE), at a senior level in discussions on strategic directions, and as a key collective voice contributing to the evolution of existing initiatives.

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The final conference of the IntlUni project was held in Brussels, in the grand surroundings of the Salle des Miroirs in the Brussels Parlement, on 24th September 2015. This final showcase meeting celebrated the close of the project with the publication of the final report, including IntlUni’s recommendations for addressing the challenges and opportunities of the international classroom. It is the culmination of three years’ work by 38 partners across 27 European countries.

The event, ‘Towards mastering the challenges of the international classroom,’ was attended by over a 100 participants from the 38 partner universities, as well as external experts, higher education leaders and representatives from key European associations. It was a day of rich discussions, plans for future work and partnerships, and optimism for the implementation of internationalisation programmes and curricula across Europe.

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• Lauridsen, Karen M. & Lillemose, Mette Kastberg (Eds) 2015. Opportunities and challenges in the multilingual and multicultural learning space. Final document of the IntlUni Erasmus Academic Network project 2012-15. Aarhus: IntlUni

• Cünnen, Janina, Andreas Kolb, Karen M. Lauridsen & Don Peckham. 2015. Impact and exploitation report. IntlUni Erasmus Academic Network project 2012-15 Aarhus: IntlUni

IntlUni outcomes, including the content of these documents, are the result of the joint efforts of all IntlUni partner representatives, but have been written by the authors mentioned. These authors must be credited in all references made to the content of these documents or parts thereof.

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