With institutions around the world suffering from the impacts of the pandemic, a lifelong mutually beneficial relationship with alumni can create value at all levels: increased student recruitment and partnerships at the institutional level; greater personal development and mentoring at the individual level; and better trade and national branding at the state level.

This workshop will help you to reflect on the value of alumni engagement and involvement and embed this into your strategic plans, consider how alumni can become international education partners, help you increase your international student numbers and learn best practice examples to help your institution. On the second day of the workshop, Erasmus University Rotterdam will offer practical applications of how best to engage with your alumni to make a difference in areas such as international student recruitment, engagement and fundraising.

The objective of this practical two-part workshop is for you to understand the value of alumni and how best to work with them in international education to benefit your university. You will also receive best practice examples which will have practical applications for your institution.

Our practical Connecting Alumni to Internationalisation workshop will help you to:

Reflect on and assess the value of alumni engagement and involvement in international education in your institution;
Identify the key players within your institution that can help to advance the involvement of alumni for international education
Consider the ways alumni can become partners for/in/with/through international education
Devise mutually beneficial, meaningful roles for alumni to be involved in international education including international student recruitment
Embed alumni engagement and involvement into strategic and action plans
Draw on examples of alumni engagement and involvement to apply in your own institution
Receive best practice examples from Erasmus University, Rotterdam who will share practical applications of how best to engage with alumni
Walk away with an Action Plan to increase the benefits that alumni bring to your institution’s internationalisation strategy

Two part workshop:

Part 1: Thursday 18th March 11:00 - 12:30 (GMT)

Part 2: Thursday 25th March 14:00 - 15:30 (GMT)

Delivered by

The IC Global Partnership is an organisation providing training and development opportunities for individuals and institutions within the internationalisation and globalisation of education industry. Our programmes are underpinned by recognition of diverse individual remits and education provider institutions delivering higher education. We create communities, enabled by real time online meetings with colleagues; a friendly and reflective space where colleagues can be reassured they are not alone and build their knowledge.

Our Professional Trainer

Our expert trainer, Dr Maria Galo, who is a TEDx speaker and passionate about alumni connection has over 20 years’ experience in higher education and advancement leadership at the University of Toronto, University College Dublin and recently as Director of Lifelong Learning and International Education at St Angela’s, NUI Galway. Maria is also a Visiting Research Fellow with the Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin and the Expert Alumni Advisor to the CERN Alumni Board. As a culmination of her research, she is publishing her first book, The Alumni Way: Building Lifelong Value from your University Investment (Bristol University Press) in September 2021. Maria is also an associate for the EAIE Alumni Relations Expert Community and an IC Global Fellow.