I hope you have managed to overcome the challenges and difficulties that the pandemic has given us over the past year, and surely will continue to give us in the near future

In the current newsletter you will find plenty of evidence that the URV’s international activities have continued unabated, and point to a bright future for the university’s international projection.

While travelling has been severely limited, the university has worked to prepare for this future through a number of important training programmes. One is the Internationalisation in Higher Education for Society (IHES), in which internationalization training is being given to PAS colleagues who work in units that connect the URV’s efforts to the society which surrounds us, in a joint project with Palacký University of the Czech Republic.

Another initiative, in which the URV is partner, is for PDI, with the programme, SUCTIA, Systemic University Change Towards Internationalization for Academics. This is a new project arising from the already well-established SUCTI course for internationalizing the PAS work. Training sessions for the PDI will be available in the new academic year.

And for the students, the Aurora Alliance project, in which the URV joins 8 other European universities to develop cooperation in teaching, will soon begin to offer opportunities to URV students, to study subjects in the partner universities and participate in other learning experiences, such as lecture series, short-stay courses, as well as a mobility programme that specifically encourages student movement within the Aurora network.

With these three details, I hope you see that there are interesting things to look forward to for all parts of the university.

I wish you the best for the summer, and hope you will all returned with renewed energy for the new academic year.