DIES training on management of internationalization2020/2021 is open for applications. Please find the attached link and call for more information.
https://www.uni-hannover.de/fileadmin/Internationales/pdf/Announcement_MoI_2020_21.pdf
Leibniz University Hannover, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK) are jointly organising the DIES Training Course
“MANAGEMENT OF INTERNATIONALISATION”
in cooperation with Universidad de Guanajuato – UG (Guanajuato, Mexico), Manipal Academy of Higher Education – MAHE (Manipal, India), and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology – JKUAT (Nairobi, Kenya).1
- What does the training course want to achieve?
The key objective of the training course is to qualify university staff (either International Office staff or higher education managers responsible for coordinating international activities) from selected countries of Africa, Latin America, and Asia, to manage processes and tasks of internationalization in the area of higher education. The programme will enable the participants to build up improved and more effective structures and procedures of internationalization at their home universities. The programme neither aims at universities with an already very developed stage of internationalization, nor has as a main purpose to provide knowledge for proposal writing for third party funding. - Course Content and Methodology
The course is composed of four thematic modules. Each training unit offers a balance between conceptual learning components and practice-oriented training, management skills as well as soft skills.
Module 1 – Internationalisation: Concept Systems and Actors
Module 2 – Competences and Key Tasks of an International Office (IO)
a) Systems and Processes of Higher Education at National, Regional and Interregional
Levels
b) Concepts and Implications of Internationalisation
c) Internationalisation Strategies
a) Structures and Tasks of an International Office
b) Internationalisation of Research
c) Internationalisation at Home
d) Academic Mobility and Partnerships
e) Marketing and Recruitment
Module 3 – Soft Skills Module 4 – Management Skills
a) Intercultural Communication
b) Conflict Management
a) Project Management
b) Change Management
The programme consists of three workshops and the work on a specific project of internationalization. Although the first module is mainly conceptually driven, the training course will methodologically focus on the practical aspects of internationalization.
Participants will learn about examples of “good practice” from different countries all over the world, and then apply the acquired knowledge to their everyday work in their own universities. Entering into an international dialogue will improve and train their management and intercultural skills, and enhance their awareness and knowledge about developments in internationalization