The annual PIE meeting took place on 16-17 May 2019, hosted by The Glasgow School of Art. PIE – Platform for Internationalisation ELIA gathered deans and heads of internationalisation, policymakers, teachers and other staff members of ELIA Member Institutions who are researching, advising on and making strategies and policies.

The annual PIE meeting in Glasgow explored questions concerning the meaning of internationalisation for higher arts education institutions in Europe and beyond. Through discussions, presentations and working session, the two-day programme looked into new practices and common understanding of internationalisation, and particularly, explored the topic of internationalisation of the curriculum.

Two speakers, Jeanine Gregersson-Hermans and Lucy Butters joined the PIE meeting to talk about the Tools of Internationalisation (EQUIP project) and Cultural Intelligence.

To shape the content of the PIE Annual Meeting, ELIA invited its members to submit proposals around the topic of internationalisation. Six proposals were selected and presented.

ELIA plans to develop an event proceedings publication which will be gathering contributions from presenters and participants of the PIE meeting. ELIA members are invited to propose papers and topics to be included in the PIE Annual Meeting Publication.

SPEAKERS

Lucy Butters

Lucy works with universities to provide personal development, training and coaching services which support and enhance internationalisation. After working in academia, then the British Council, she established Elembee in 2010. Lucy works in collaboration with Cultural Intelligence Centre, (Michigan, USA), with whom she is a certified facilitator and offers cultural intelligence (CQ) assessments, training and coaching. Increasingly she is working to support student learning with CQ, working with students from fields such as business, museum studies and chemistry. Since 2010 she has also been a facilitator for Soliya on their Connect programme, which uses online technologies to equip students around the world with constructive dialogue skills.

Jeanine Gregersson-Hermans

Jeanine Gregersen-Hermans is an Honorary Senior Fellow of Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) as of January 2019. Previously she held the role of Pro Vice-Chancellor and Vice-Principal (International) at GCU. She serves as a member of the Supervisory Board of the Thomas More University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. She was also the Director of Student Recruitment at the University of Hull, United Kingdom, and Director of Marketing and Communications and Spokesperson of the Executive Board at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. In the latter capacity, she was also appointed as additional Director of Maastricht Education and Research Centre, Bangalore, India.