Facilitating International Cooperation on the Master's Level

Summary of the Workshop: Rationale: Beyond being increasingly demanded by both policy-makers and institutions of higher education themselves, internationalisation carries the promise of broadening both lecturers’ and... [ view full abstract ]

Summary of the Workshop:

Rationale: Beyond being increasingly demanded by both policy-makers and institutions of higher education themselves, internationalisation carries the promise of broadening both lecturers’ and students’ horizons. International exchange, and other ways of international collaboration between European OT programmes, exposes students and lecturers to new learning environments, thereby initiating transfer and enhancing quality by providing opportunities for benchmarking. On the master’s level it also allows for research cooperation. This is, however, not always straightforward to realise.

Purpose:
Drawing on guidelines of good practices of internationalisation in the field of higher education and previous research conducted within the network of the ENOTHE master project group, we invite participants to discuss in small groups what is specific about internationalization at the Master’s level and how ENOTHE, and similar networks, can be used to facilitate this.

Objectives:
1) To facilitate participants to reflect on various facilitating structures and creative approaches to international collaboration and exchange.
2) Following the workshop, a synthesis of discussion/ feedback will be produced to inform the final project report.

Format:
• Short introduction to the topic and work of the ENOTHE Masters’ working group
• Facilitated small group discussion
• Feedback and summary

Maximum number of participants:
Maximum number of participants for the workshop: 50.

Brief description of intended participants:
Lecturers, students and graduates of Master’s level education and occupational therapy practitioners.

Financial support by ENOTHE is gratefully acknowledged.