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Internationalisation: Perspectives from German academia

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Anna L. Ahlers, Jan Hennings, Fabian Schmidt
Die Junge Akademie, Berlin 02.10.25

Internationalisation is a topic of widespread discussion in academia. But what does it actually mean in practice? How is the increasingly global orientation of universities and research institutions changing the academic system in Germany? And what impact will this change ultimately have on society? To answer these questions and gain insights into the diversity of internationalisation processes, Die Junge Akademie'sInternationalisation Research Group invited a total of 17 stakeholders from key German academic institutions to join focus group discussions in the spring of 2021. The paper summarises the results of the qualitative analysis of these discussions in the first section.

To put these views in the context of the experience of students and researchers, we then asked for comments on this analysis, which are reproduced in the second section of the paper. The comments open up interesting new perspectives on internationalisation. The paper concludes with an essay by Rudolf Stichweh on the sociological and historical dimensions of internationalisation.

A note on the English version: The analysis and commentary parts in this publication are translations of the original German edition. The institutional affiliations of the commentators reflect their status at the time of the initial publication in 2023. Rudolf Stichweh’s essay has been substantially revised during the translation process and therefore differs in certain respects from the German version.

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