University of Alicante TIES Kick-off Meeting March 1st 2010 Aliandra Barlete International Project Management Office / OPGI.

University of Alicante

TIES Kick-off Meeting

March 1st 2010

Aliandra Barlete

International Project Management Office / OPGI

KICK- OFF MEETING

Contents

– Basic Institutional data

– Student mobility– Courses offered to promote

internationalisation

– International services

– International strategy

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Basic institutional data• The UA was created in 1979, but it

comes from a long academic tradition in the Valencian region (University of Orihuela, 16th Century)

• Enrolment: 35.000 students• International students: 1.400

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Student Mobility• Inbound mobility: 1400 international

students– Origin: Europe (Erasmus programme),

USA, Japan, Latin America, Middle East• Outbound mobility: About 500 students

go abroad every year• Students are recruited with fairs,

agreements, marketing, etc.

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Courses offered to promote

internationalisation• Target groups: students, scholars, admin and technical staff

• Language courses (“AULAS”) – English, French, German, Italian, Chinese

• There are programmes in English – i.e. International Business Programme

• Spanish language, as well as courses on Spanish Culture and Civilization

• Centre for Oriental Studies – Chinese and Japanese language classes, plus studies

on Asian Culture

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International services • Provided by the SRI – International Relation

services: – Travel agency– Translation– Services for “Erasmus” students– AULAS (language classes)– Accommodation– Information for visitors – University shop

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Internationalisation strategy • Has been created recently• Focuses mostly on student mobility, does not

take into account other activities taken place at the University related to internationalisation

• Its development had been “ad hoc”, without formal procedures

• Too early to evaluate its development

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Other data• Office for International Project Management,

created in 2001.

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Thank you!

Aliandra BarleteTIES Project Officer

OGPI/[email protected]

Tel.: +34 965 90 97 18 Fax: +34 965 90 97 15