GO-create culture shift: A framework for Internationalisation at Home in Irish higher education (218)

14:30 – 16:00 CEST, 10 September 2025 ‐ 1 hour 30 mins

Room: Poster area

Poster session

This poster presents a research-based conceptual framework developed for the Irish context. The Content, Process and Positioning framework aims to create an inclusive and internationalised learning and campus experience by embedding the concept of Internationalisation at Home. It can be adapted to other European contexts to enhance the international and intercultural dimensions within the curriculum and campus environment.

Topics:

Internationalisation at home

Speakers

Nidhi Piplani Kapur

South East Technological University (Waterford Campus), Ireland

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Don O'Neill

South East Technological University, Ireland

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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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Don O'Neill

South East Technological University, Ireland

Dr Don O’Neill is Head of Department of Culinary Arts, Hospitality and Tourism at South East Technological University (SETU) Waterford, Ireland where he manages education, research and internationalisation activities. He also lectures in French language, culture and society and supervises doctoral research in the area of Internationalisation in Higher Education.

Don has worked at SETU since 1989 in a variety of academic and management positions in the Faculty of Humanities and also in management roles in the Office for International Relations. He has extensive experience of collaborative research and project management with university partners in Europe, North Africa, and North and South America. He has also managed a variety of Erasmus+ and Erasmus Mundus projects and has established university partnerships for SETU globally.

He works as an external examiner nationally and internationally and has served on programme review and programme validation boards at several higher education institutions. He also frequently acts as a reviewer for EU and Irish Government higher education agencies.

Don’s ongoing research focuses primarily on the theme of internationalisation in higher education. He has a particular interest in the challenges and opportunities of international student mobility, internationalisation of the curriculum, and 'internationalisation at home'.

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