Erasmus+ BOOST Barcelona Training on Fundamentals of Building a Strategic Internationalization Plan

Barcelona, Spain – From February 18 to 24, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-Barcelona Tech (UPC) hosted a training workshop on Fundamentals of Building a Strategic Internationalization Plan within the Erasmus+ “Boosting Strategy and Marketing for Internationalization of Armenian Universities”/BOOST/ project. The training, conducted by UPC and University of Rovira and Virgili (Spain), aimed to introduce the Strategic Planning Cycle from the perspectives of European best-practice and know-how approaches.

The Project consortium partners from Armenian State Pedagogical University, American University of Armenia, Shirak State University after Nalbandyan, Vanadzor State University after H. Tumanyan, Komitas State Conservatory, Ministry of Science and Education, National Information Centre on Academic Recognition and Mobility, as well as Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia) were trained on diagnosis phases for SWOT, environment scanning on trends in HE through implementation, evaluation and correcting measures.

The interactive training was concluded with facilitators’ feedback and recommendations to internationalization action plans prepared by each institution to be further implemented within their respective Universities at the institutional level.

Furthermore, the training was followed by a coordination meeting together with representatives from European partner institutions of Superior Technical Institute of University of Lisbon (Portugal), Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain), University of Rovira and Virgili (Spain), and Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) who discussed project results and achievements as well as shared their views on further planning activities in accordance with work packages.

Erasmus+ BOOST (www.boost.aspu.am) is a three-year project which aims to foster and promote international dimension of the Armenian Higher Education (HE) through the development of national and institutional policy framework and tools.