Sandra Slotte

Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Finland
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Sandra Slotte

I am thoroughly passionate about internationalisation, higher education and combining these two to make the world a better place.

Sandra Slotte is Senior Policy Advisor, Internationalisation at Arcada University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland. She has more than 15 years of experience working in international higher education within a wide range of roles, providing her with a systemic view of HEIs as organisations, as well as of the broad and complex ecosystems they belong to together with societies and other stakeholders. As of 2017, her tasks have focused specifically on strategic and comprehensive internationalisation with emphasis on developing services to international degree students through systemic and networked cooperation internally and with external partners. At Arcada, she is responsible for the national Talent Boost programme for attracting and retaining international talent in Finland. She is also Project Manager at Arcada for the Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership INTERLOCALITY – Increased Local Employability of International Degree Students 2022–2025. She holds a Master’s Degree in Education from Helsinki University, majoring in Leading and Developing the Learning Organisation at Aalto University.

Sandra has been a member of the EAIE since 2018 and was elected as Steering group member of the Expert Community Strategy and Management for the 2022–2024 term.