- Short-term Internationalisation Initiatives for Students
- Blended Intensive Programme - FAQ
FCI (I@H)
- ask your students to record their reflections on the visit to various organisations, or their participation in activities abroad in a reflective journal, and ask them to make a comparative analysis with analogous organisations at home.
Assessment
- give the students a short test or worksheet with multiple choice or short-answer questions that gauge the knowledge the students acquired during the excursion or study trip. Students can complete the test or worksheet as they go along and optionally discuss their answers with their fellow-students;
- ask your students to write down their quantitative or qualitative observations and interpretations in a field notebook. Collect and assess them these notebooks afterwards. Optionally combine the field notebook with a more extensive written report;
- ask your students to hold a presentation, individually or in group (orally or as a poster presentation), in which they discuss the general contents or specific topics of the excursion, BIP, summer school, ... vis-à-vis a specific target audience;
Practical Examples
Intensity
Blend@UGent
Internationalisation@Home
Funding
These initiatives firstly include any internationalisation initiatives developed at Ghent University involving incoming international exchange students whose stay in Ghent is shorter than a full term. Think of, for instance, Blended Intensive Programmes (BIP) or a summer or winter school that is open to international students. In addition, it also includes excursions and work placements (of less than a month) in a local context, organised for Ghent University students, but with a clear international/intercultural focus. For example: excursions/work placements in collaboration with a multinational.
What?
You have to consider quite a number of modalities if you want to set up your own BIP, summer or winter school, short-term work placement or excursion. Find out (almost) everything you need to know:
How?
Short-term Internationalisation Intiatives at Ghent University
At this point, we do not have any examples from education practice at Ghent University yet. If you have a specific practical example in mind that fits this description, please get in touch with us at onderwijsondersteuning@ugent.be. We are happy to add any relevant practical examples to this flash card.
Short-term Internationalisation Initiatives at Ghent University
The BIP ‘Challenges of the future in Pediatric Rehabilitation’ is co-ordinated by Sétubal Polytechnic ESS/IPS (Portugal), in collaboration with REVAKI UGent (Belgium), Artevelde University of Applied Sciences (Belgium), Oulu University of Applied Sciences (Finland) and Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Norway). The BIP is open to students of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy, Occupational Sciences, Speech Language and Hearing Sciences and Nursing with a special interest in paediatrics. The BIP focuses on babies, young children and adolescents with a serious injury. The course starts with an online part (end of October - end of January), which students can take at their own leisure. This is then followed by an intensive six-day programme on-site in Portugal. Coaching sessions are alternated with group assignments and in-depth study, and the progrmame also contains a number of workshops given by lecturers from the different partner institutions. The different international teams prepare an interdisciplinary presentation on a specific case.
More information on this Ghent University Practice at Blended Intensive Programme: Tackling a Social Challenge in an Interdisciplinary and International Way
Short-term Internationalisation Initiatives at Ghent University
The Faculty of Bioscience Engineering designed a new course unit entitled The Interdisciplinary Study of the Climate Neutral City Mission for thirty-eight students from the nine European ENLIGHT partners. This ENLIGHT-BIP comprises seven weeks of online classes and a physical immersion week in Ghent.
