Working Group on Internationalisation and Mobility

The Working Group on Internationalisation and Mobility is the BFUG structure for the 2024-2027 work cycle tasked with providing policy recommendations to enhance mobility while making sure the EHEA members strive for more inclusive, more balanced, and greener mobility in line with the commitments taken in the Tirana Communiqué.

The main goal of the Working Group is to develop an EHEA Action Plan on Internationalisation and Mobility that:

• Supports the EHEA members in developing and implementing internationalisation policies that enable all learners to acquire international and intercultural competencies.
• Fosters a discussion of EHEA mobility targets in light of greatly varying mobility numbers in different countries, between credit and degree mobility and different cycles, and identifies the barriers to mobility as well as offering recommendations for the removal of these barriers.
• Provide concrete recommendations for member countries to develop or enhance policies that collectively strive for more inclusive, more balanced, and greener mobility.
• Includes a glossary of the key terms in the area of internationalisation and mobility to ensure a common understanding of terminology

The Working Group also facilitates the exchange of views on EHEA member countries’ broad internationalisation strategies and priorities and organises expert hearings and peer-learning activities on internationalisation and mobility strategies.

Through its activities, the Working Group supports the commitments taken by the ministers in the Tirana Ministerial Conference to enable all learners to acquire international and intercultural competencies and reinforce efforts to identify and remove barriers and promote physical mobility, in order to achieve the benchmark of at least 20% of mobile students.