Internationalization

Target audience

Primarily administrative staff at all levels who work with internationalization.

Focus areas

The group is looking at topics that reflect the extensive changes in Nordic and European research and education. Joint degrees, double degrees, multiple degrees, strategic networks and alliances, and the international mobility of doctoral candidates, researchers, and students contribute to new, dynamic, workspaces which are becoming the playground for a growing number of NUAS member institutions.

Activities in the past year

  • Several online group meetings
  • Webinar: NUAS Internationalisation dialogue: European University Alliances – a strategic view, March 19, 2025

Activity goals for 2024-2025

  • Erasmus+ – staff training in connection of NUAS events
  • Several online Group & Sub group meetings
  • Webinars
  • On-site meeting in Gothenburg in connection to EAIE in September 2025
  • On-site meeting in Copenhagen in connection to NUAS Forum in August 2026

 

Group leader

Irinja Paakkanen

Head of International Affairs
University of Turku

E-mail: irpaak@utu.fi

People in this group

Aníta Hannesdóttir
 University of Iceland

Anna Lindahl
Mid Sweden University

Guðlaug Matthildur Jakobsdottir
Reykjavik University

Helle Rod Søgaard
Roskilde University

Irinja Paakkanen
 University of Turku

Karolina Catoni
University of Gothenburg

Kristian Juul Møller Bitsch
University of Copenhagen

Kristin Hansen
Univeristy of Bergen

Maija Kuiri (substitute for Riikka)
LUT University 

Riikka Vanhanen (maternity leave)
University of Jyväskylä

Sigrid Ag
UiT – The Arctic University of Norway