FINNIPS – The power of network cooperation

The Finnish Network for International Programmes (FINNIPS) is a cooperation body which, in 2015, brought together 21 Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS) and over 50 of their English- taught degree programmes. This article describes the purpose and functions of the FINNIPS network and discusses the various dimensions and benefits of the cooperation that the network generates for the higher education institutions involved. It discloses the practices agreed upon and implemented within the international degree programmes’ admission and selection process, as well as in student recruitment and marketing. Moreover, the article will shed light on the joint efforts aimed at the development of international degree programmes and learning environments in a broader sense.

This article was published in Issue 3, 2015 of the Internationalisation of Higher Education, an EAIE Handbook. From 2011–2015, the EAIE was the Editor of Internationalisation of Higher Education Handbook, published by Raabe Academic Publishers (Berlin). The EAIE holds joint copyright of all 2015 articles with DUZ Verlags- und Medienhaus GmbH.

— Author: Riikka Vanhanen