INTERLOCALITY Closing Event: report and materials
On occasion of the INTERLOCALITY closing event hosted by the local partner Fontys UAS, the project partners from Denmark, Germany, Finland and Italy, together with over 80 local and international participants have explored challenges and opportunities in enhancing the employability and retention of international students and graduates. Through innovative tools, evidence-based strategies, and collaborative approaches,…
“The Circle is Complete!”
That was the resounding conclusion at the final Transnational Partner Meeting of the INTERLOCALITY consortium at Fontys Eindhoven. This journey began with a brainstorm session between UCN and Fontys UAS in January 2020, leading to a project proposal submitted by a consortium of 5 partners in May 2021. Nearly five years later, the circle closed…
Enhancing online training courses for staff: final insights from focus groups and pilots
This article presents an update on the progress of the INTERLOCALITY project’s initiative to develop online staff training courses aimed at enhancing the employability and retention of international degree students. After gathering and analysing the insights from the first piloting phase conducted in Denmark and Finland in autumn 2023, the second piloting phase has been…
Online Staff training courses well on the way: insights into the development process
As emerged from the research insights conducted within Workpackage 2 of the project, to enhance the employability and retention of international degree students, focusing solely on their preparation, networking, and competences is not sufficient. In fact, within the quadruple helix approach, it is increasingly crucial to equip employers, employees, third sector organisations), and Higher Education…
“INTERLOCALITY”: Project partners from Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, and Italy visit FH Münster
We share with you the article from FH Münster about the Transnational Partner Meeting organized in the German city as we have reached the halfway point of our project. In the “INTERLOCALITY” project, our university is working with project partners to develop tools that better integrate international students into the local labor market. A delegation…
Developing not only employability, but also employer-ability
By Sandra Slotte The INTERLOCALITY project aims to increase the local employability of international higher education degree students within the fields of engineering and business administration. This focus on ‘employability’ is congruent with the global narrative on the responsibility of the students to develop their employability in order to gain, and maintain, employment. However, already…
The Employability Activities Catalogue (EAC)
The Employability Activities Catalogue (EAC) Download The Employability Activities Catalogue (EAC) is part of an Intellectual Output within the ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership “INTERLOCALITY – Increased local employability of international students”. It aims at mapping and collecting employability and retention activities and initiatives within the consortium of the five partners.The Employability Activities Catalogue is the basis…
Work in progress: International Alumni Monitoring Tool
Subproject IAMT Fontys University of Applied Sciences (The Netherlands) is coordinator of the development of an International Alumni Monitoring Tool (IAMT) within the INTERLOCALITY consortium. This tool will track and collect objective data on the mobility and career progression of international students in the fields of engineering or business administration, and subjective data on their…