III. Years of experience in the area of International Higher Education Management: either as international office staff or higher education manager responsible for coordinating international activities.*

IV. Describe the managerial tasks performed in your position regarding internationalisation processes:*

V. Have you ever received a Scholarship (e.g. DAAD)?*

Yes

If yes, please indicate the scholarship provider, area of study, venue and time:

VI. Have you (or has any member of your university) already participated in the DIES-training course “Management of Internationalisation”?*

Yes

If yes, please indicate the year and the topic of the internationalisation project of this participant

VII. Did you already participate in one of the DAAD DIES training courses (e.g. other "Management of Internationalisation" DIES Training Course, IDC, UNILEAD, Courses for Proposal Writing (ProGRANT), UNITRACE, Quality Assurance Coodinators’ Course; Nation*

Yes

If yes, please specify:

VIII. References

Please fill in: Title and Name, Position, Institution, E-mail*

3. UNIVERSITY PROFILE

University Name*

Number of campuses

Undergraduate student population*

Postgraduate student population*

Academic staff with a doctorate*

Percentage of international degree-seeking students in 2022*

Number of outbound exchange students (2022)*

Number of inbound exchange students (2022)*

Academic disciplines*

3.1 INTERNATIONALISATION AT YOUR UNIVERSITY

Does an International Office or similar unit exist? If yes, how many people are working in this office and what tasks do they fulfil?*

Important research/academic projects with international partners (please focus on the five most important projects):*

Participation in international networks:*

Is there an internationalisation strategy at your university or are you planning to develop one? If already existing, please attach the internationalisation strategy to your application (upload at the end).*

4. MOTIVATION AND INTERNATIONALISATION PROJECT PLAN

Please note!

We recommend you to read all following questions carefully before beginning to answer!

The training course pursues a practice-oriented approach. During the course, participants are expected to work on an Internationalisation Project in accordance with their own specific goals, develop a roadmap, set their own milestones, and keep record of the development of this project at their universities and implement it.

I. Why do you want to participate in this course? Please be very precise.*

II. With reference to your everyday work: name 2 main goals of internationalisation you are trying to achieve in the next 11 months.*

III. Which are the 2 main challenges you are facing while trying to achieve these goals?*

IV. Referring to the mentioned challenges and goals try to develop a concrete internationalisation project to be designed and implemented during the course.

Project name*

Key activities*

Estimated costs*

Estimated time needed for design and implementation*

Expected concrete results/products*

V. Does your unit or university provide a guaranteed budget for the development of your project? If possible, specify how much.*

5. DOCUMENTS

IMPORTANT

Do not forget to add the following application documents and check them!

1. Letter of support from the top management of the university (President/Rector or Vice-Chancellor/Vice-Rector of the university), specifying:

a. why the candidate was selected and if and how she/he is supported by the university to attend this course,
b. relevance of his/her participation with reference to the development of internationalisation and/or general strategy of the university,
c. institutional financial support (s. “co-funding: fees and project costs”),
d. support to attend all three workshops (leave/travel permit, also for online workshops!),
e. administrative support to implement the project,
f. and the institutional commitment that the appointed person remains in his/her position until December 2024.

Upload Letter of support

2. Organisational chart of the university (depicting the section where the candidate is working in)*

3. Proof of English proficiency: minimum C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference or equivalent (e.g. TOEFL, IELTS, Cambridge Certificate). A certificate of studies in an English-speaking country is also proof of proficiency.*

4. Internationalisation Strategy (if already existing in your institution)

6. SUBMIT

Data protection declaration DIES Central America

In order to select the 20 course participants, the personal data provided in this application form must be disclosed to the members of the selection committee of the DAAD-DIES training course “Management of Internationalisation”, nominated by Leibniz University Hannover, DAAD, HRK, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA).

Data Protection Information Central America

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