Description
In the last two to three decades there has been in many places in the world an increasing interest in positioning research and internationalisation as a basic ingredient of (higher) education. Doing-and learning how-to-do- research in an international context has been, among other things, defined as the best way of learning. In Europe, for instance, a diversity of transnational programmes have activated this spirit of cooperation in international research and education. At our university in Amsterdam, we have seen how doing research has also become an incentive for students to become more knowledgeable. They have been enjoying ‘doing research as partners in projects’ even despite the extra efforts.
At the same time, many of us have experienced how hard it can be to keep a sustainable financing of research activities and projects. In fact, very often, granted international research projects feel as the start of what should be a longer endeavour, in any case, longer than the three or four years that projects mostly get granted. Also funding organizations say to be aware of these issues and are currently looking at ways of developing longer and broader programmes that can better ensure the continuity and sustainability of international cooperation in research and education.
The aim of this session, then, is to contribute to the larger mapping of internationalisation and research as fundamental components in the needed continuous re-activation of knowledge. As such, the mapping includes the elaboration of a series of key concepts, a sort of Glossary, that has shown to be very helpful. We see, for instance, how the definitions of internationalisation have evolved during the years and how terms such as ‘glocalization’ can help to better understand the dynamics of places uniting the global and the local.
| Period | 17 Sept 2024 |
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| Event title | Teaching training program. Grupo Planeta. |
| Event type | Seminar |
| Degree of Recognition | International |