Red regional para el fomento de la Internacionalización de la Educación Superior en América Latina Erasmus Project

Project Title

Red regional para el fomento de la Internacionalización de la Educación Superior en América Latina

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

In the last decade internationalisation has become a primary component in the strategy of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to meet their goals and institutional missions. These changes have been reshaping gradually the processes and models traditionally followed by universities to interact and cooperate internationally. In the case of Latin American (LA), despite some progress, many obstacles to a more coherent and cohesive international interventions are identified. One of the key problems, widely found among their institutions, is related to the lack of professionalism of their International Relation Offices (IROs). Despite the heterogeneity among LA HEIs, a common picture in many universities is still the following: poor implementation of internationalisation strategies, lack of autonomy in decision-making processes, poor prioritisation of the staffs in charge of internationalisation within the governing bodies or lack of project management culture to conduct international actions. As a consequence, internationalisation in the region remains spontaneous, reactive, widely implemented in individual bases and without a comprehensive and integrated vision of all the key activities of their mission.Taking this into account, the project aims to contribute to improving the management culture on internationalisation of HEIs in LA through the following results:I) Development a comprehensive training program aimed at professionals of the IROs of LA HEIs.II) Development benchmarking and comparative studies to identify the main characteristics of the internationalisation processes in LA in order to formulate adequate and tailor-made policies and actions.III) Development of a Guide on Internationalisation Management for HEIs that can serve as a model for the creation and improvement of IROs in LA HEIs.IV) Enabling a specialised service to assist HEI in the implementation of their policies/strategies of internationalisation and international cooperation.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 1000000 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSIDAD DE GUADALAJARA & Country: MX

Project Partners

• ASOCIACION URUGUAYA ORT – UNIVERSIDAD ORT URUGUAY
• ASOCIACION DE UNIVERSIDADES GRUPO MONTEVIDEO
• UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL PAULISTA JULIO DE MESQUITA FILHO
• UNIVERSIDAD DE PINAR DEL RIO HERMANOS SAIZ MONTES DE OCA
• VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL
• ASSOCIACAO DE ASSESSORIAS DE INSTITUICOES DE ENSINO SUPERIOR BRASILEIRAS PARA ASSUNTOS INTERNACIONAIS
• FUNDACION UNIVERSIDAD DEL NORTE