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Jun 14, 2024

On the last day of the event, the 14th of June, the attendees had the opportunity to learn on how to conduct internationalisation from a faculty’s perspective and acquire insights on the implementation of similar Erasmus + CBHE projects to advance internationalisation and some tangible benefits in which this can result. 

First, the Vice Dean of Faculty of Education External Internship and Mobility, Maria Tabuenca, conducted a lecture on “How to conduct internationalisation from a faculty’s perspective” in which she highlighted that the journey followed by her faculty to promote mobility was not always easy, but that nowadays different evidence shown how successful this process had been. That they had started from 0 and now the numbers were quite high. The participants really liked to see an example of an strategy that had started only in 2018, but that by implementing diverse actions, it had been really successful and benefited both the students, the academics, the staff, and ultimately the Faculty of Education as a whole. 

Then, the director of the UA Institutional Project Management Service, Carolina Madeleine and the Senior Project Manager Elen Garcia, presented the project OPEN (OPEN-ing Laos Higher Education System to internationalisation strategies) and the project ANTENA (Internationalisation of Higher Education in the Philippines) as two successful study cases on advancing internationalisation in Asian countries. Showing as best practices the Policy Roadmap and the Network that were developed in the framework of this projects, and still was operating nowadays. 

Later on, Elena Olmos encouraged the attendees on working internationalisation and promoting student mobility by showing some of the benefits that this process brings to students. Finally, the Director of the UA Institutional Project Management Service, Carolina Madeleine closed the event by doing an activity in which the participants had to share with the others some concepts that they had learned as a result of their participation in the event. 

In overall, the event was very successful as it managed to meet its objectives of presenting the work done at the University of Alicante to advance in internationalisation of Higher Education, but also because it managed to initiate the discussion between the partners on how to improve internationalisation of its own HEIs in Cambodia. In general, and as shown when doing one last activity on what the participants had learned from the event, different new concepts arose and it became evident that they will now impact the actions that these participants will take when returning to their institutions.