EAIE Glasgow 2026

🎟️ Registration required (paid)
🤝 Workshop (collaborative)
💡 Internationalisation of the curriculum | Erasmus+

How can universities create global classrooms that revolutionise learning through collaboration? Drawing on the HUBIoC capacity-building project, this workshop will provide practical strategies for designing student-centred, internationalised curriculum experiences that empower educators and students to create meaningful, lasting change across continents. Based on pedagogical and methodological principles, we will demonstrate how to build global classrooms that also serve as incubators of global leaders capable of implementing innovations in pedagogical practice. In these classrooms, internationalisation of the curriculum becomes a tangible practice in a common language that enhances global competencies in all participants.

Learning outcomes

• Implement a context-based model for managing innovative pedagogical practices in IoC;
• Identify and apply the relevant pedagogical and methodological principles for co-creating global classrooms;
• Develop strategies for capacity-building partnerships and actionable plans for transformative and equitable collaboration.

Target audience
This workshop is targeted at educators, academic leaders, and internationalisation professionals engaged in teaching innovation, partnership development, and curriculum design. It is particularly valuable for those seeking to embed global perspectives within local learning contexts, build sustainable cross-border collaborations, or start an Internationalisation of the Curriculum strategy.

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