A hands-on guide to organizing non-academic staff training weeks

When mobility of non-academic university staff became possible within Erasmus, the University of Helsinki chose to exclude staff with international job descriptions from their exchanges. Aside from promoting networking, the now very popular International Staff Exchange Week has proven motivational for the hosting staff to brush up on their language skills and enhance Internationalisation at Home.

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.

— Authors: Tiina Kosunen, Marianna Peltola and Paivi Tauriainen