SUCTI Project

The Systemic University Change Towards Internationalisation (SUCTI) project was a three-year initiative approved for funding under the European Commission’s Erasmus+ – KA2 Strategic Partnerships for higher education. It was coordinated by Rovira i Virgili University (URV) in Tarragona, Spain.
The project aims at empowering administrative 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 of internationalisation, they can become genuine change agents. In this way, they can make a key contribution to the overall objective of the project which is to transform the internal mind-set of universities and enable them to become truly internationalised institutions. The SUCTI project manages to examine myths and explain efforts in the everyday work of administrative staff working in the international arena: a truly excellent example for comprehensive internationalisation. 

The SUCTI project was honoured with the 2019 EAIE President's award by the President at the time, Sabine Pendl, for its inclusive approach to comprehensive internationalisation.