“INTERLOCALITY”: Project partners from Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, and Italy visit FH Münster
We share with you the article from FH Münster about the Transnational Partner Meeting organized in the German city as we have reached the halfway point of our project. In the “INTERLOCALITY” project, our university is working with project partners to develop tools that better integrate international students into the local labor market. A delegation…
Developing not only employability, but also employer-ability
By Sandra Slotte The INTERLOCALITY project aims to increase the local employability of international higher education degree students within the fields of engineering and business administration. This focus on ‘employability’ is congruent with the global narrative on the responsibility of the students to develop their employability in order to gain, and maintain, employment. However, already…
The Employability Activities Catalogue (EAC)
The Employability Activities Catalogue (EAC) Download The Employability Activities Catalogue (EAC) is part of an Intellectual Output within the ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership “INTERLOCALITY – Increased local employability of international students”. It aims at mapping and collecting employability and retention activities and initiatives within the consortium of the five partners.The Employability Activities Catalogue is the basis…
First phase finished: International Alumni Monitoring Tool
Subproject IAMT Fontys University of Applied Sciences (The Netherlands) is coordinator of the development of an International Alumni Monitoring Tool (IAMT) within the INTERLOCALITY consortium. This tool will track and collect objective data on the mobility and career progression of international students in the fields of engineering or business administration, and subjective data on their perceptions of their…
The Complexity of Internationalisation Calls for Collaboration by Sandra Slotte
The increasingly complex, networked, and globalised environments highly affect the internationalisation of universities of applied sciences (UASs) today and probably even more so in the future. Higher education institutions (HEIs) need to increase systemic collaboration both internally and with external actors in societies locally and globally in order to ensure not only the continued success…
Work in progress: International Alumni Monitoring Tool
Subproject IAMT Fontys University of Applied Sciences (The Netherlands) is coordinator of the development of an International Alumni Monitoring Tool (IAMT) within the INTERLOCALITY consortium. This tool will track and collect objective data on the mobility and career progression of international students in the fields of engineering or business administration, and subjective data on their…
INTERLOCALITY: let’s join forces to increase international students and recent graduates’ retention and employability!
INTERLOCALITY: let’s join forces to increase international students and recent graduates’ retention and employability! https://youtu.be/ltYp4p2KqNc The project “INTERLOCALITY – increased local employability of international degree students” has finally begun. The project, financed by the Erasmus+ program of the European Union under the Ka2 Cooperation Partnership – Higher Education, aims at increasing local employability among international…