Interlace PODCAST, the first and only blog dedicated to the internationalization aspects of education and culture. Internationalization in education and culture is today a solid reality that positively counterbalances the many negative aspects of globalization. General information on hot topics will be completed by country specific specials, programs entirely dedicated to cooperation for development, concrete best practices and programmes going deeper in the world of higher education or culture.
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Episode #30 - Internationalization of Higher Education for Society - Part 2
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This is the second part of an interview with the international expert Uwe Brandenburg about Internationalization of Higher Education for Society. Uwe Brandenburg is the Managing Director of the Global Impact Institute and Associate Professor at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain. Uwe has contributed to more than 30 publications in the…
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Episode #29 – Internationalization of Higher Education for Society – Part 1
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Internationalization of Higher Education for Society is a concept which relevance has been growing enormously in the past decade. Today is a crucial aspect of internationalization of higher education, also in the light of the importance given to societal impact, inclusiveness, and environmental sustainability by the European Commission in the recen…
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Welcome to Part 2 about higher education in India and the interview with Dr. Shashikala Gurpur, distinguished academician and orator, Director of Symbiosis Law School, Pune, and and Dean of the Faculty of Law, Symbiosis International University. She is a member of 19th Law Commission of India and National Judicial Academic Council.…
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India’s higher education system is the world’s third largest in terms of students, next to China and the United States. Over the past five years, internationalization of higher education and research has become one of the key policy priorities for the government of India with a number of initiatives in this sense such as the Global Initiative of Ac…
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Episode #26 - International Art Education and the life as an artist in academia
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Ingo Vetter presents in this interview his work as a visual artist and his engagement of internationalization of artistic higher education. Ingo Vetter is a visual artist working with sculpture, photography and installations. He teaches sculpture at the University of the Arts Bremen with a specific focus on artistic materials and production in glob…
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Episode #25 – Armenia: international education, research and innovation (Part 2)
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Welcome to Part 2 of the interview with Suzanna Shamakhyan, VP/Director on Partnerships and Programs at the The Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology(FAST), former Head of Department of International Cooperation at the Russian-Armenian University in Yerevan, and Founding President at the European Youth Parliament Armenia.…
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Episode #24 - Armenia: international education, research and innovation (Part 1)
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The Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST) is one of the most prominent organizations committed in building an ecosystem of innovation to lead scientists, technologists, and innovators in Armenia and beyond to success on the global stage. In Part 1 we meet Suzanna Shamakhyan, VP/Director on Partnerships and Programs at FAST, former H…
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Episode #23 - Erasmus Mundus Students and Alumni Association
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The EU-funded Erasmus Mundus joint programme was launched in 2004 and facilitated over time the creation of 535 Joint Master Programmes across Europe with the participation of 610 different HEIs from 33 Programme countries and 24,500 students worldwide. In Episode #23 we interview Katharina Heil who is the current President of the Erasmus Mundus St…
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Episode #22 - Internationalization of higher education in Mexico
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The internationalization of Higher Education is a key priority for the Mexican government. The objective is to support innovative joint programs, joint degrees, joint supervision of theses, set up of academic networks and scholar exchanges. This orientation is mainly supported by institutions like the Tecnologico de Monterrey with its vibrant 26 ca…
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Welcome to the first episode of Interlace PODCAST Season 2! In this episode we continue with the country specials but from a different perspective, which is in the spirit of this new season: broaden the picture and address new fields and new countries from different angles and in a more interactive, more analytical and less descriptive and pedagogi…
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Episode #20 – Eastern European Universities Association
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The Eastern European University Association (EEUA) was founded in 2010 by Russian and Ukrainian State Universities as non-profit organization. The main goal of the association is to develop international education at Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian universities. Every year EEUA attends the main international conferences on education, global meeti…
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The Systemic University Change Towards Internationalisation (SUCTI) project aims to empower administrative university staff by providing them with knowledge and skills related to their university’s internationalisation process. Administrative staff represent the backbone of universities, and if they are convinced of the importance and added value o…
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SwedenEdu is a Swedish educational consultancy firm founded in 2016 to support Turkish students in reaching their education and life goals in Sweden. SwedenEdu is a good example of the key role that alumni play in promoting the education systems they come from and how they can be agents of change for many of their peers. SwedenEdu has a collaborati…
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Episode #17 – European Association of ERASMUS Coordinators (Part 2)
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The European Association of ERASMUS Coordinators (EAEC), is a membership network, which currently has more than 140 members. The Erasmus Congress and Exhibition (ERACON) is the main event organized by the network and in 2020 it will take place online on November 19 and 20. In this extensive interview, the President and founder of the Association, P…
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Episode #16 – European Association of ERASMUS Coordinators (Part 1)
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The European Association of ERASMUS Coordinators (EAEC), is a membership network, which currently has more than 140 members. It was founded in 2004 in Lodz, Poland, with an official kick off during the ERACON 2005 (ERASMUS Coordinators Conference and GO-Exchange Education Fair 2005) in Cyprus. The network represents the reference point for all the …
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Capacity-building projects in the field of higher education are transnational cooperation projects, based on multilateral partnerships, primarily between higher education institutions from Programme and eligible Partner Countries. European studies is a field of study offered by many academic colleges and universities that focuses on current develop…
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Episode #14 – Rural Inclusive Outdoor Theatre Education
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This episode of Interlace PODCAST is the first one addressing the adult education field. We do this by introducing the RIOTE2 project – Rural Inclusive Outdoor Theatre Education: Street theatre education methodology and network cooperation model in rural environment. The project is of high relevance for the scope of this podcast since it addresses …
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In a previous episode, we have interviewed Lika Glonti, director of the National Erasmus Office in Tbilisi who provided a general overview on the Georgian higher education institutions and their involvement in the Erasmus+ programme. The KNOWEU project; Enhancing Knowledge on Georgia’s EU Integration among Ethnic Minorities, is the topic of today’s…
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Episode #12 – Artistic entrepreneurship
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International collaboration in Art education differs in many ways and for many reasons from other fields of studies and is too often neglected or marginalized from the big picture. What are the specificities of international university collaboration in this field, why was it affected more than others by the Covid-19 pandemic effects and what are th…
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Episode #11 – Visual Impairment Social Inclusion ON
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Today’s episode brings us to a new territory and will show us how the EU funding tools can be used in a creative way to cover very specific topics and address highly relevant social challenges in an inclusive manner. The “Visual Impairment Social Inclusion ON” project was an Erasmus+ Success story, a good practice on the School education level and …
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Episode #10 – Entrepreneurial Learning in Art Schools 2.0
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Strategic Partnerships are transnational projects designed to develop and share innovative practices and promote cooperation, peer learning, and exchanges of experiences in the fields of education, training, and youth. The EL-ART project (Entrepreneurial Learning in Art Education), focus of this episode, aims to help art schools give their students…
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Episode #9 – Student Recruitment Tours
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International student recruitment is very high on the agenda of universities and it represents one of the most powerful tools for their internationalization strategies. Many private actors are present on the market as facilitators of this process. Often criticized but often needed to access specific markets or niches. But a number of these actors h…
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Episode #8 – National Erasmus+ Office in Georgia
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The European Programmes in the field of education are managed and monitored in non-EU countries by specific National Erasmus+ Office (NEO). What is the mandate and what are the activities of these units and who are the people responsible for this crucial and challenging task for the development of internationalization of higher education in their c…
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Episode #7 – European Universities Initiative
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The European Universities Initiative is one of the latest initiatives of the European Commission in the field of higher education. What is the rationale of this initiative and why should it be consider one of the most important ones in the recent years for European universities? The first selected alliances started their activities in November 2019…
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Episode #6 – International traineeships, virtual and blended mobility
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The increase in virtual and blended mobility is a relevant recent development in the internationalization of higher education arena. There are many reasons for this, the two main ones being the Covid-19 pandemic that made physical mobility impossible in 2020 and the fact that the European Commission decided to introduce this concept as one of the m…
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Episode #5 – National Erasmus+ Office in Uzbekistan
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Aziza Abdurakhmanova is Head of the National Erasmus+ Office in Uzbekistan and she has been active in the past two decades in the management of European Programmes involving higher education institutions from her country. Uzbekistan has undergone an impressive development in the past year in all fields including higher education which removed a num…
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Episode #4 – Erasmus Mundus: a success story from the point of view of an alumnus
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The Erasmus Mundus Programme was launched by the European Commission at the beginning of the 2000s as a revolutionary idea aiming to increase the attractiveness and quality of European universities by facilitating the creation of joint master programmes of excellence supported by very generous grants for top students from all over the world. The pr…
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Episode #3 – AEC: the leading European Association in the field of music education
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AEC – The Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen – is the leading voice for higher music education in Europe. A cultural and educational network with around 300 member institutions for professional music training in 57 countries. In this episode we make an interview with Sara Primiterra, Events and Proje…
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Episode #2 – International Association of Universities
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The International Association of Universities, created under the auspices of UNESCO in 1950, (and therefore celebration it’s 70th anniversary this year) is a membership-based organisation serving the global higher education community through: expertise & trends analysis, publications & portals, advisory services, peer-to-peer learning, events, glob…
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Welcome to Interlace PODCAST! In this short introduction, your hosts – Mirko Varano and Christofer Fredriksson – give you a first hint on the background of the idea and what you should expect. In a few weeks, your hosts will publish a vlog with a deeper insight on their background, our plans for the future, our scope, and our target groups.…
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