Assessment of internationalisation

In the open economies of Flanders and the Netherlands it is self-evident that the graduates of higher education programmes have achieved the right competences for working in a international and multicultural environment. Programmes have the possibility to assess their internationalisation efforts by means of the distinctive (quality) feature internationalisation.
NVAO has therefore establised assessment frameworks for the distinctive (quality) feature internationalisation. These frameworks give programmes and institutions the opportunity to have the quality of their internationalisation assessed through an external peer review.
Pilots
The frameworks were developed by NVAO in cooperation with various experts from the higher education community in Belgium and The Netherlands. The discussions and framework development was based on Hans de Wit's publication for NVAO: "Internationalisation of Higher Education in Europe and its assessment, trends and issues".
In 2010, the programme level framework was tested in a pilot round in which 12 HE institutions with 21 programmes from the Netherlands and Flanders participated. After the decision-making, the results were presented during a special NVAO seminar “Assessment of Internationalisation” which was held on 15 December 2010. During this seminar 18 Dutch and Flemish programmes have received NVAO's distinctive quality (feature) internationalisation. In addition to the distinctive quality (feature), ten programmes have received a certificate for ‘good’ quality in internationalisation.
The results of the experiences of the pilot are presented in the evaluation report: Assessment of Internationalisation - An evaluation of the NVAOs pilot procedures.
Good Practices in Internationalisation Platform (GPIP)
In 2012, NVAO started collecting good practices in internationalisation. These are presented on the Good Practices in Internationalisation Platform (GPIP). HE Institutions can use this website to review and share experiences with internationalisation.
European recognition
In October 2012, the European Consortium for Accreditation in higher education (ECA) started a European Union-funded project: Certificate for Quality in Internationalisation (CeQuInt). This project lifts NVAO's experiences with assessing the quality of internationalisation to the European level.