Internationalisation strategies in VET

TCA seminar

Budapest, 5-8th April 2016
PROGRAMME AND PRESENTATIONS PARTICIPANTS' AREA
  • How can international activities support the improvement of our training, the curricula and our institutions?
  • How can we best prepare our students for the future world of work? What is VET’s role in supporting the internationalisation of our working life?
  • What is the link between staff development and internationalisation?
  • How can we make international activities truly part of our daily work?
Internationalisation and VET are, in the modern and global society we live in today, an inevitable combination. Many of the VET-institutions in Europe are aware of the importance of internationalisation and have developed approaches to incorporate international activities into their training and organisations. However, executing European and international projects is not enough to make the added value of international activities visible. Having a clear and well anchored strategy on internationalisation will support and give direction to international activities and ultimately have impact on the organisation, its students, the employees, the surrounding region and the world of work. But in practice, developing such a strategy has for many institutions still turned out to be a challenge. And especially, to fully embed internationalisation into the institutional policy and practice on all levels is a greater challenge still.

The Dutch, Finnish and Hungarian Erasmus+ National Agencies invited VET-institutions from ten European countries to share their strengths, experiences and ambitions on strategies for internationalisation.


The organizer team: Ágnes Balla (HU), Mika Saarinen (FI), Gonnie van der Eerden (NL), János Jenei (HU), Eline van der Net (NL)


PROGRAMME AND PRESENTATIONS

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Venue: Hotel Danubius Health Spa Resort Margitsziget
1138 Budapest, Margitsziget

5 April 2016, Tuesday
until 18:00	arrival of the participants
19:00 – 21:00	Get-together: dinner and ice breaking

6 April 2016, Wednesday
9:00 – 10:00	Welcome & orientation to the training, Introduction to the session, European and global meta-strategies
10:00 – 10:45	Country context
10:45 – 11.00	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00	International activities at institutional level
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch
13.00 – 13:30	Presentation on strategic planning
13:30 – 14:10	Case study – strategic planning in practice, Ms Tanja Korteharju, Hyria Education, Finland
14:10 – 15:00	Reflection on the case study: questions & answers, discussion
15:00 – 15:20	Coffee break
15:20 – 16:40	Timeline of the institution’s internationalization, sharing ideas and development
16:40 – 17:00	Closure of day 1
18:00	Dinner, evening programme

7 April 2016, Thursday
9:00 – 9:15	Bridging from day 1 to day 2
9:15 – 10:45	World Café: identifying strength and challenges of the operational environment
10:45 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 11.50	Case study: forming strategic aims - Ms Ildikó Szilágyi & Mr Róbert Szõllõsi (Gundel Károly Vocational School, Hungary)
11:50 – 12:30	Taking the first steps to identify strategic goals
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 13:50	Presentation – How to take into account the institutional culture - Isodoor Jonker, Double Healix Education Media, The Netherlands
13:50 – 14:20	Presentation – How to take into account quality assurance
14:20 – 16:00	Open Space: forming action plans
16:00 – 16:45	Developments in internationalization – outcome of the Finnish research
16:45 – 17:00	Closing day 2
17:00	Free evening

8 April 2016, Friday
9:00 – 9:15	Bridging from day 2 to day 3
9:15 – 11:15	Influence of the institutional culture - Isodoor Jonker, Double Healix
11:15 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30	Closing day 3 and whole programme / Concluding words and distributing certificates
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch & departure


Background documents (mentioned or presented in the training):
The Finnish guide: ”Strenght from International Cooperation”
The internationalisation strategy model
The Dutch ”Quality and Impact Scan 2020”
Pyramide Of Change

Additional cases and examples, not presented in the training’:
International Strategy Jvvaskyla
International Strategy Jvvaskyla part 1
International Strategy Jvvaskyla part 2
Internationalisation vision document
Craven College International Strategy
Mission and Strategy