Vielfalt im Dialog: Critical lenses on concepts within Internationalisation and how these can contribute to inclusivity and Internationalisation at Home

20.08.2025 | 09:30-12:30 Uhr
Dr. Eva Janebová und Dr. Jos Beelen

In this interactive workshop, you will learn about current and emerging concepts within international higher education, such as Inclusive, Equitable, Responsible, Resilient and Intelligent Internationalisation.

Yet another concept, Critical Internationalisation, provides us with lenses on how institutional and disciplinary cultures align with these internationalisation concepts. We will also discuss new definitions of internationalisation that have emerged outside Europe, for example in China and South Africa. Finally, we will unpack the notion of decolonisation of higher education and its relevance in general, as well as specifically for Virtual Exchange and Collaborative Oline International Learning (COIL).

You will learn how to how to look through Critical Internationalisation at your institution and disciplines and how to use the Pocket Model for institution-wide internationalisation.

We will discuss this against be background of current geopolitical change and its implications for internationalisation of higher education in your own context. We will also look at reactions to these implications from the EU, European and national associations and individual universities, ranging from advocacy to activism.

Dr. Eva Janebová is the Director of the Mestenhauser Institute for International Collaboration and Chair of the Publications Committee at EAIE. Her qualifications and experience were gained from Charles University, Columbia University, and the University of Minnesota. Eva focuses on curriculum development and inclusive internationalisation and has served as academic advisor to the Council for International Education Exchange, the Czech Ministry of Education, and Morgan State University. She co-authored E.G. ‘Challenges of Inclusion in Distance Education from Perspective of University Teachers and Students’, ‘Mapping the Dimensions of Inclusive Internationalization’, in Inequalities in Study Abroad, Mestenhauser and the Possibilities of International Education and ACA Think Piece on Inclusive Internationalisation.

Dr. Jos Beelen’s research interests include internationalisation at home and the skills of academics to internationalise teaching and learning. He holds a PhD from the Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation (CHEI) at Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. In 2018, Jos was the recipient of the President’s Award of the European Association for International Education (EAIE) for his contribution to internationalisation at home. For the EAIE, he is a member of the Committee on Research into International Education. Jos is Visiting Professor at Coventry University, a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State (South Africa) and co-editor of a volume on critical internationalisation.