The international perspective shall be integrated into new programmes and projects from the outset. An international educational profile provides the students with a stronger position on an increasingly internationalised marked. Student taking a Master degree will have spent some of their study years outside the country. The development of collaborative projects, such as joint programmes and joint summer schools, shall be encouraged.

Joint programmes will be a part of the Bologna process within EHEA, European Higher Education Area. It is a possibility to strengthen the international dimension, create unique programmes, improve educational profile and global visibility, enhance competence and create closer cooperation.

For students the advantages of joint programmes will be an increase in number and diversity of educational programs, increase in vertical mobility, higher quality, getting better qualifications for labour market/research market, and international network.

Quality assurance should be regarded as a shared and integrated responsibility of the network as well as a responsibility to be taken by each participating institution. One important quality indicator is how teaching and learning in a foreign language are used. Lund University has created a course for teachers engaged in international master programmes, Teaching and Learning through English. The course aims to provide teachers with opportunities to develop in their teaching roles by reflecting on the pedagogical challenge which making learning possible through another language constitutes. It focuses on the conditions for learning when the English of both students and teachers varies from being a first language to a fourth one and builds on the premise that by improving conditions for students in an international environment, learning is improved for all. The course promotes an inclusive approach to pedagogy in higher education by recognising that the development of pedagogical, linguistic and meta-cultural sensitivities are processes that require a changed orientation towards teaching and learning. Subsequently, the course encourages teachers to embrace their responsibility for these pedagogical conditions and to explore and develop the possibilities attached to them.

In the session we will notice both joint programmes and teaching and learning in a foreign language.