1. Curriculum internationalisation; Lessons from the organisational change literature
Curriculum internationalisation can be usefully approached as an institutional, contextual organisational change process > effectiveness, competitive advantage
Implications in practice
Longer term needed
All stakeholders need to be involved from the start
Stakeholders can be empowered, different types of power
Communication and coordination is essential
Resources are required, but not sufficient
Resources need to be managed: allocation, development, alignment
Curriculum internationalisation needs to be aligned with the institutional strategy and policies.
Main implications for IC project:
- longer-term approach: gradual, interactive, systematic and coherent
- stakeholders: academic staff, students/study associations, educational developers, other support staff, management
empowerment through: knowledge and skills development, purposeful dialogue, best practices, students in governance boards, expertise from research,
Examples of the brochures and pilot case studies. Cherish champions/pioneers as experts, enable external presentations.
resources required to enable, not only budget but rather capacity, expertise, acknowledgement and support,
focus on continuous professional development for teachers (tailor-made) and competency development for students,
and the hidden elements, e.g. regularly discussions about Dutch identity and values vs internationalisation, how far do we go?

2. Curriculum internationalisation: the International Classroom project at the University of Groningen
Example of practice
Institution-wide, long term project ( )
Top-down (initiated by Executive Board) and
bottom-up: building on good practices
Involving all levels and stakeholders, including study associations
Alignment with strategy, for education in particular
Research-based (Leask, Carroll, Green & Whitsed, 2015)
Expertise development with external experts
Resource-based (e.g. budget, expertise, networks)
Activities across boundaries
Adjustment to specific context.
[Characterising project approach in a way that can be adopted by other universities.
Implications of the literature for the IC project: specific approach, activities and resources needed]
Started with longer-term commitment and resources from Executive Board,
At the same time identified champions/leaders and good practices/examples,
Adopted scholarly, enabling approach to get buy in from academics (often pragmatic)
Developed expertise with externals
Platform function! Thinking and working across boundaries.
E.g. pilot case studies with different faculties, lot of recognition and exchange between Professors of Medicine, Computing Science and Spatial Sciences.
E.g. annual seminar with external presenters, internal examples, lots of discussions.

3. Curriculum Internationalisation; policy and strategy at the University Of Groningen
CI is part of the university’s process to embed internationalisation in all departments, strategy and policies
How to acquire a quality label for internationalisation (Ce Quint) – accreditation as a tool.
Current practice
internationalisation not sufficiently explicit in university strategy
institutional vision on internationalisation existing, but not sufficiently discussed and embedded
gaps in policies, e.g. on graduate attributes, learning outcomes
lack of qualitative indicators for internationalisation
lack of an evidence-based strategy.
[Characterising policy issues and strategy in a way that can be recognised by other universities]
Different expertise, cultures, networks and routines in different departments
From separate international offices to embedded internationalisation
Need to make internationalisation explicit and relevant in all aspects of education!
Lack of coherence between strategy, vision, policies and practice.

4. Curriculum internationalisation; first findings in project, policy and research
many different understandings of the international classroom
initial resistance and scepticism
many pioneers with enthusiasm
need for management of resources (leadership and knowledge)
need for a platform to share expertise across boundaries
need for reflection and purposeful dialogue
need to acknowledge good practices (ambassadors) and problems.
Discussion: what do you recognise or not? How is curriculum internationalisation organised (or not) in your institution?
What works and what should be adjusted?