Embedding Internationalisation in Higher Education Institutions (EMBINT) aims to embed internationalisation across all staff functions in higher education institutions, expanding the exposure and responsibility beyond the traditional academic and international office staff.
Started: 2025
Funding: Erasmus+ Key Action 2 – Cooperation Partnerships in Higher Education
Budget: 400.000,00 €
Length: 3 years
Partners: 7
Embedding Internationalisation in Higher Education Institutions (EMBINT) was born of the consortium’s seven partners’ collectively observed need to create structures that aid in internationalising professional staff service functions whose international exposure had previously been limited. The project aims to disseminate the responsibility as well as the benefits of internationalisation experiences by diversifying the involved staff functions beyond the traditional stakeholders.
EMBINT’s activities, distributed among its seven partners, will pursue the general objective through a mapping of needs and good-practices, a 12-months pilot period, testing the developed modular internationalisation action plan, a briefing and debriefing workshop for the pilot cohort, and accessible guidelines to ensure the practicability of the project’s continuation. The project’s target groups’ central involvement in numerous activities will ensure that relevant input directly informs the outcomes.
The main outcome of the project will be an internationalisation action plan that can be modified and is accessible to all. This action plan will be based on a thorough analysis of the target groups’ needs and partners’ capacities. The action plan will be tested at all six partner universities over a 12-month period and then optimised. Complemented by a self-assessment tool and implementation guidelines, the action plan can be tailored to internationalisation needs and implemented in HEI staff development cycles.
Project consortium: Philipps Universität Marburg (coordinator), Universidad de Oviedo, Universita Degli Studi di Padova, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Eötvos Lorand University and European University Foundation.