Finding the beat in remote places: Internationalisation at home as a revolutionary practice for peripheral universities (S2.13)

09:00 – 10:00 BST, 9 September 2026 ‐ 1 hour

Room: Castle 1, Crown Plaza Hotel, Ground floor

Session

✅ Included for all participants
💬 Fishbowl (conversational)
💡 Internationalisation at home | European Universities Initiative

 

More than 20 million Europeans live on islands and in coastal regions, where traditional mobility often fails. Can internationalisation at home transform peripheral universities from passive recipients to active shapers of European higher education? Drawing on the EUNICoast alliance's experiences, this fishbowl will confront a critical question: How do we design internationalisation at home that genuinely builds capacity, engages faculty and leads to mobility, rather than just substituting for it?

Speakers

Ricardo Sagrera Gazeley

Ricardo Sagrera Gazeley

University of the Balearic Islands, Spain

Angela Ballone

Angela Ballone

Italy

Magdalene Weber

Magdalene Weber

Hochschule Stralsund - University of Applied Sciences (HOST), Germany