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Grants for Internationalisation Research: Responsible Internationalisation

The aim of this call is to contribute to new knowledge on the responsible internationalisation of higher education and research by funding relevant research. In order to increase understanding of responsible internationalisation in a Swedish context, STINT offers funding to establish a research group on responsible internationalisation at a Swedish higher education institution.

For higher education and research, international collaboration is crucial in ensuring high quality. However, it is important that cooperation proceeds responsibly. Today international relations are more complex than ever before, which means that we need to be even more aware of how we build and manage them.

Issues of responsible internationalisation arise in a variety of contexts, such as when choosing partners for collaboration, planning trips abroad, recruiting students and staff from other countries, receiving grants and donations, receiving foreign visitors, or sharing data or intellectual property.

In 2020, STINT published guidelines highlighting these issues. These guidelines have since become an important foundation for the discussion of issues related to responsibility in international collaborations at institutional, national and international levels. STINT continues to promote responsible internationalisation by supporting international academic collaborations in Sweden and abroad.

Although knowledge in the area of responsible internationalisation has developed considerably and efforts are ongoing in many places to establish such an approach, there is a general need for greater knowledge on and exchange of experience in the area of responsible internationalisation. This was for example noted in Responsible internationalisation, Interim report on a government assignment [Ansvarsfull internationalisering, Delrapportering av ett regeringsuppdrag], published in March this year as 2024:1 in the Swedish Council for Higher Education’s (UHR) report series. Responsible internationalisation raises many difficult questions and more research is needed in this area.

In order to increase understanding of responsible internationalisation in a Swedish context, STINT offers funding to establish a research group on responsible internationalisation at a Swedish higher education institution. The group should have relevant experience as well as an international network that includes research environments and actors in this area.