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RIPARTIZIONE IV STUDENTI

SETTORE PROGRAMMI INTERNAZIONALI

Internationalisation at Sapienza University of Rome

Luciano Saso

Rector’s Delegate for International Mobility

www.uniroma1.it

About 12000 Students

About 4000 Teaching Staff Members

About 5000 Adm & and Tech Staff MembersStaff

Why Internationalise?

QU

A. Quality

B. Visibility, Reputation

C. Funding

D. Multicultural education for a multicultural

society

Strategic role of internationalisation

not a dessert…

But the main course…

Internationalisation & human civilization

A. Increasing QUALITY of our institution by

internationalisation

• Development of university policies and strategies

• Development of strategic partnerships

• Creation of a good learning and research

environment by favouring exchanges of knowledge

and expertise)

• Attractiveness of good students and teachers

• Career development of adm & tech Staff

• Etc.

Strategic partnerships: university networks

• EUA

• UNICA

• Sgroup

• UNIMED

• Tethys

• etc

B. Increasing the REPUTATION of our institution

by internationalisation

• Collaborative mobility, education and research

projects (Erasmus+, Horizon 2020, etc.): students

and graduates as Ambassadors of our university

• Academic cooperations

Major role of reputation surveys in International

rankings (QS, THES, MULTIRANK, etc.)

QS Ranking

40% ACADEMIC REPUTATION

10% EMPLOYER REPUTATION

20% CITATIONS PER FACULTY

20% FACULTY STUDENT Ratio

5% Proportion of INTERNATIONAL

STUDENTS

5% Proportion of INTERNATIONAL FACULTY

Times Higher Education (THES) Ranking: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2014-15/world-ranking/methodology

13 performance indicators are grouped into five

areas:

• Teaching: the learning environment (worth 30 per

cent of the overall ranking score)

• Research: volume, income and reputation (worth

30 per cent)

• Citations: research influence (worth 30 per cent)

• Industry income: innovation (worth 2.5 per cent)

• International outlook: staff, students and

research (worth 7.5 per cent).

Significant effect of Mobility Programmes on both

academic and employer reputation

• Students, and Graduates as “Ambassadors” in

other universities

• Trainees (Erasmus placement, Leonardo da Vinci,

etc) as “Ambassadors” in companies and other

non academic organizations

C. Increasing the EXTERNAL FUNDING of our

institution by internationalisation

• Horizon 2020

• Erasmus+

Internationalisation at home

• Erasmus staff week, job shadowing

• Erasmus welcome week

• Incoming trainees

• Incoming teaching Staff Members

• Etc.

Sapienza International Welcome Office: HELLO

Hello is the International Student Welcome

Centre aimed at welcoming, helping,

supporting and giving information to foreign

students keen to study at Sapienza

University .

Traineeship programmes

Erasmus+ (previously Leonardo da Vinci and Erasmus

placement)

Ambassadors, links with companies, increase of

employability, etc.

Language issues

• Courses of Italian for foreign students

• Language courses for Italian Students

• More English taught course

Language issues: tandems

• ESN

• DAAD

• Campus France

• Science without borders (Brasil)

• Professors of foreign languages and literatures at

Sapienza

Double and Joint degrees

Doctoral education

• 1/3 of the positions in Italy reserved for foreign

students

• 50% Increase of the scholarship during the period

abroad

The North-South mobility issue

«Drain of brains» or appointment of «ambassadors»?

Thank you for your attention

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