EAIE Glasgow 2026

How is the tempo of global mobility changing? What beats resonate in Europe? This session will explore recent shifts in international student mobility, drawing on Project Atlas research to highlight leading host destinations and emerging sending countries. The discussion will provide a global overview of factors shaping mobility, and we will share specific insights from Germany and Italy. Join the discussion!

✅ Included for all participants
💬 Campfire (conversational)
💡 Research on Internationalisation

Are you currently enrolled in a doctoral programme, such as a PhD, DBA or EdD, focused on internationalisation in higher education? Are you thinking about starting one? Whether you are a current doctoral student or candidate, or considering this path, join us for an informal, informative and encouraging peer-to-peer conversation about the doctoral journey – how to get started, what to expect and how members of our community are navigating it.

This poster shares outcomes from a staff week on internationalisation at home at UIC Barcelona, where participants from 18 universities reflected on institutional practices. Surveys and design sessions revealed shared challenges – language, motivation and resources – and showed how peer exchange and co-creation can boost engagement and extend internationalisation at home impact beyond mobility.

The Re-cognition project explores how non-formal, experiential learning (such as travel, community work and hands-on practice) can be recognised within formal teacher training systems. By mapping a Danish teacher training programme to European standards, the project highlights how alternative education builds key competencies, and it questions what truly counts as learning. Our poster invites reflection on bridging formal and non-formal pathways in education.

The Journal of Studies in International Education is the premier academic journal for leaders, administrators, educators, researchers and policymakers who focus on the internationalisation of higher education. JSIE is bold and forward-thinking, and it embodies EAIE 2026's theme of the rhythm of revolution. Owned by a consortium of international education associations including EAIE, JSIE is also 'your journal'. This session will introduce JSIE and connect editors, reviewers and contributors.

Let's talk about Euraxess centres. Drawing on examples in France and Germany, we will discuss how these structures effectively support the international mobility of PhD students and researchers. Together, we will explore the services they offer, their coordination at the national level and the added value of a collaborative European approach. It will therefore be a bottom-up discussion, focusing on concrete actions and initiatives that strengthen research support across borders.

Through our work in internationalisation of higher education, we aim to contribute to a better world, fostering global citizenship, empathy and solidarity across borders of nations and cultures. We do this by facilitating meaningful encounters, exchanges and collaborations. In this session, we will reflect, through the lens of philosophy, on the deeper meaning of this work and the values underpinning it. Our focus will be on Chinese philosophy, and specifically the Confucian philosopher Mencius.

To stay relevant, higher education requires revolutions. But who has the vision to lead them? The scholar–practitioner is the crucial change agent with the dual vision to lead: critiquing the system while working within it. Scholar–practitioners, current and future, are invited to this fishbowl session to reflect on their dual identity, analyse the sacrifices and rewards of their journey and set intentions to leverage their dual lens for revolutionary impact.

Educational developers are often seen as key actors in embedding Internationalisation of the Curriculum (IoC) more systemically, given their roles in curriculum design and quality processes. Yet their involvement remains the exception rather than the norm. This poster explores how educational developers in the Netherlands and Flanders understand IoC, how they see its relevance to their work and what they need in order to engage with it more fully.

German students increasingly study abroad to develop linguistic and intercultural competencies, yet these outcomes are not guaranteed. A cooperative doctoral project at TU Darmstadt and TH Aschaffenburg in Germany is examining how quality assurance mechanisms address these competencies at STEM-focused institutions. Findings from 200 documents reveal limited didactic differentiation and a narrow understanding of internationalisation.

Does your higher education institution dare to define areas of strategic importance for its internationalisation, like Europe or Asia? Whether you value or oppose these, this poster provides the advantages and disadvantages of setting focus regions in Europe and beyond. It also offers insights on how to implement a geographic strategy. The insights draw on my PhD research based on Dutch and German case study universities. It is an interactive poster – come join the discussion!

This poster will focus on the increasing intensity of full-degree inbound international mobility and its impact on co-learning between domestic and international students within the Hungarian higher education context. Our objective is to explore how institutional approaches to collaboration among all students have evolved and to identify tools to support universities in enhancing these processes. The poster highlights research findings and the implications of related capacity-building activities.

This poster presents a study that aims to move the discourse on international students beyond deficit narratives by rethinking international mobility as preparation for engaging with complexity in a rapidly changing world. Based on interviews at three US universities, it introduces the metacognitive stance – an ethical capacity to hold multiple, historically grounded logics within an evolving whole and navigate diverse ways of knowing.

European universities invest heavily in recruiting international students, yet this competition does not always support inclusion or quality goals. This poster presents an economic framework for designing policy and funding incentives that encourage institutions to collaborate rather than compete. Drawing on microeconomic theory and secondary data from Eurostat, UNESCO and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), it identifies practical mechanisms that policymakers and international offices can adapt to their own contexts.

Administrative and service staff play a vital role in higher education internationalisation, supporting students and partnerships while implementing global strategies. Yet their access to intercultural development is limited. COIL4Staff connects administrative professionals through online collaboration to share best practices, tackle challenges and design joint projects, fostering skills, mobility and institutional international growth.

This poster presents causal evidence on how exposure to international students affects the long-term outcomes of domestic students. Using nationwide administrative and survey data covering 1 million students over three decades in the Netherlands, the study shows that internationalisation strengthens intercultural ties, openness to migration and international mobility, without harming employment or income. These findings contribute to current policy debates on international student enrolment.

This research-based poster session introduces the Institutional Student Mobility Ecosystem and highlights the crucial role of promotion in shaping mobility experiences – recognised both as a key enabler and a major barrier at home and host institutions. It also reveals fresh insights from students who haven't yet gone abroad, uncovering how they search for information on mobility opportunities. The key question remains: How can we better capture students' attention and truly inspire them to go mobile?

International students strengthen internationalisation at large, and they also make an important contribution to the economic development of their host countries. A study by the German Economic Institute on behalf of the German Academic Exchange Service shows that in the long term, every cohort of international students contributes around eight times more to the revenue of German public budgets than the state invests in them. Join us to discuss arguments for advocating on behalf of international students!

Africa’s demographic growth is reshaping higher education and international student mobility. This poster explores emerging mobility trends, as well as the challenges and inequalities affecting francophone sub-Saharan African students, and considers the implications for policy and practice in the internationalisation of European higher education.

Artificial intelligence competence is gaining global relevance, yet approaches differ widely across regions. This poster shares comparative insights from different countries, based on the German Academic Exchange Service's international network. It highlights innovative policies and educational models shaping AI skills and literacy – offering inspiration for institutions seeking to strengthen responsible and future-ready AI education through shared learning and intercultural exchange.