Digitalisation is affecting how we interact with each other, perform our daily tasks and 'think big' about the future, which poses opportunities as well as challenges for the internationalisation of higher education. Thanks to digitalisation, students and researchers have a wealth of information at their fingertips and are able to cooperate across the globe in virtual environments, for example within the framework of online international learning and virtual mobility. This issue of Forum offers not only an investigation of the multi-faceted trend of digitalisation, but also a moment-in-time snapshopt of how this trend is playing out in the context of COVID-19 and other global challenges.