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Successfully integrating VIS within your institution, college or course.

Especially for management and policy staff in higher education, we are organising an online advisory meeting focusing on the strategic and sustainable embedding of VIS in your institution. From a policy perspective, we will show the added value of VIS projects and how they:

• can contribute to internationalisation at home and internationalisation of the curriculum;
• offer an opportunity for students to develop intercultural competences.

We will discuss how to give VIS projects a place in the curriculum, how projects can be scaled up and anchored so that it becomes sustainable, and the importance of a link with the strategic policy within the institution.

For this meeting, we have invited: Dr Robert Wagenaar (University of Groningen), professor of History and Politics of Higher Education and director of the International Tuning Academy, a teaching and research centre focusing on higher education course reform (For biography, see below).

Professor Wagenaar will elaborate on the opportunities VIS offers for internationalisation and the conditions to be fulfilled for successful implementation. Specifically, he will also highlight the importance of partnerships during his presentation.

After the presentation, we will discuss with you how VIS projects fit in with your institution’s strategic policy. There will be plenty of room to translate this to your own institution and, together with experts, to look at the opportunities that the VIS subsidy scheme offers.

Registration:

Who is it for?

The management and policy advisory meeting is intended for programme directors, programme coordinators, team leaders, programme managers and policy advisors on education, internationalisation and digitalisation.

Date and time:

Online: September 30, 2024, 3pm-4:30pm

Short bibliography Robert Wagenaar (2024)

Dr Robert Wagenaar (r.wagenaar@rug.nl) is professor of History and Politics of Higher Education and director of the International Tuning Academy at the University of Groningen (RUG). The Academy is a teaching and research centre focusing on the reform of higher education courses. It has been running a biannual journal Tuning Journal for Higher Education indexed by SCOPUS, ERIC and Web of Science since 2013.

He has been directly involved in a number of key European Commission initiatives, such as the development of ECTS since 1989 and two overarching European qualifications frameworks, the Qualifications Framework in the EHEA and the EQF for LLL.

Before his directorship of the Tuning Academy, he was Education Director of the Faculty of Arts at the RUG for 11 years. He has coordinated or co-coordinated many dozens of European projects. His most recent projects are: Measuring and Comparing Achievements of Learning Outcomes in Higher Education in Europe (CALOHEE) (2016-), and Integrating Entrepreneurship and Work Experience into Higher Education (WEXHE) (2017-2019), followed by the Electronic Workbased (eWBL) project (2022-), all co-funded by the European Union.