Marloes Ambagts-van Rooijen

The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands

Marloes Ambagts works as senior lecturer Internationalisation & Innovation and researcher in Global Learning in  at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. As an action- researcher and educational developer, she has been engaging students, academics and societal actors across the Netherlands, Colombia and Chile in the co-creation of challenge-based projects with a glocal scope, centralizing critical engagement and dialogical learning throughout the process. In her ongoing PhD research, she explores how educators (can) harness diversity across the superdiverse classroom in applied HE, working towards a professional learning and development model that bridges instructional design and dialogical learning across boundaries

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Nidhi Piplani Kapur

South East Technological University (Waterford Campus), Ireland

Nidhi Piplani Kapur is pursuing her PhD in Internationalisation at Home in Irish HEIs at the South East Technological University, Ireland (Waterford Campus). She is the recipient of the prestigious Irish Research Council scholarship for her PhD project, which investigates how Irish HEIs can embed internationalisation into their curricula through Internationalisation at Home. Nidhi has over 13 years of experience in the international higher education sector, during which she has been an active volunteer with the EAIE for a decade. Starting in September 2024, she will begin a new term on the General Council of the EAIE, after having served two terms in the past. Additionally, Nidhi is the Head of the Symbiosis Centre for European Studies (SCES) at Symbiosis International University (SIU) in India, where she leads the university’s international engagements and projects with its European partners.

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Pouneh Eftekhari

Lund University, Sweden

Pouneh Eftekhari’s main responsibilities at Lund University (Sweden) include the strategic planning for sustainable internationalization (including virtual exchange) and coordinating and evaluating bilateral internationalization projects. She also leads a research project exploring the role of educational developers in curriculum internationalization. Alongside this work, Pouneh is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Transformative Education (CTE) at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) where she investigates the implications of disciplinary culture on academic engagement with internationalization. Her recent findings confirm that academic engagement varies across disciplines, suggesting that disciplinary culture may be key to increasing participation.   
  
Pouneh draws on 15 years of experience supporting international students, facilitating mobility, nurturing university relations, leading internationalization projects, and researching higher education internationalization at universities in Europe and the USA. She is certified as an expert in assessing the quality of internationalization by the European Consortium for Accreditation (ECA) and contributes to international organizations and projects as a consultant, trainer/speaker, advisory board member, and researcher.