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RIPARTIZIONE IV STUDENTI
SETTORE PROGRAMMI INTERNAZIONALI
Internationalisation at Sapienza University of Rome
Luciano Saso
Rector’s Delegate for International Mobility
www.uniroma1.it
About 12000 Students
About 4000 Teaching Staff Members
About 5000 Adm & and Tech Staff MembersStaff
Why Internationalise?
QU
A. Quality
B. Visibility, Reputation
C. Funding
D. Multicultural education for a multicultural
society
Strategic role of internationalisation
not a dessert…
But the main course…
Internationalisation & human civilization
A. Increasing QUALITY of our institution by
internationalisation
• Development of university policies and strategies
• Development of strategic partnerships
• Creation of a good learning and research
environment by favouring exchanges of knowledge
and expertise)
• Attractiveness of good students and teachers
• Career development of adm & tech Staff
• Etc.
Strategic partnerships: university networks
• EUA
• UNICA
• Sgroup
• UNIMED
• Tethys
• etc
B. Increasing the REPUTATION of our institution
by internationalisation
• Collaborative mobility, education and research
projects (Erasmus+, Horizon 2020, etc.): students
and graduates as Ambassadors of our university
• Academic cooperations
Major role of reputation surveys in International
rankings (QS, THES, MULTIRANK, etc.)
QS Ranking
40% ACADEMIC REPUTATION
10% EMPLOYER REPUTATION
20% CITATIONS PER FACULTY
20% FACULTY STUDENT Ratio
5% Proportion of INTERNATIONAL
STUDENTS
5% Proportion of INTERNATIONAL FACULTY
Times Higher Education (THES) Ranking: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2014-15/world-ranking/methodology
13 performance indicators are grouped into five
areas:
• Teaching: the learning environment (worth 30 per
cent of the overall ranking score)
• Research: volume, income and reputation (worth
30 per cent)
• Citations: research influence (worth 30 per cent)
• Industry income: innovation (worth 2.5 per cent)
• International outlook: staff, students and
research (worth 7.5 per cent).
Significant effect of Mobility Programmes on both
academic and employer reputation
• Students, and Graduates as “Ambassadors” in
other universities
• Trainees (Erasmus placement, Leonardo da Vinci,
etc) as “Ambassadors” in companies and other
non academic organizations
C. Increasing the EXTERNAL FUNDING of our
institution by internationalisation
• Horizon 2020
• Erasmus+
Internationalisation at home
• Erasmus staff week, job shadowing
• Erasmus welcome week
• Incoming trainees
• Incoming teaching Staff Members
• Etc.
Sapienza International Welcome Office: HELLO
Hello is the International Student Welcome
Centre aimed at welcoming, helping,
supporting and giving information to foreign
students keen to study at Sapienza
University .
Traineeship programmes
Erasmus+ (previously Leonardo da Vinci and Erasmus
placement)
Ambassadors, links with companies, increase of
employability, etc.
Language issues
• Courses of Italian for foreign students
• Language courses for Italian Students
• More English taught course
Language issues: tandems
• ESN
• DAAD
• Campus France
• Science without borders (Brasil)
• Professors of foreign languages and literatures at
Sapienza
Double and Joint degrees
Doctoral education
• 1/3 of the positions in Italy reserved for foreign
students
• 50% Increase of the scholarship during the period
abroad
The North-South mobility issue
«Drain of brains» or appointment of «ambassadors»?
