2025 HSMW International Week

Mittweida University of Applied Sciences welcome students, administrators and academics from HSMW partner universities and their collaborators and internationalisation champions as well as everyone interested in integrating internationalisation in teaching, research and third mission activities to its 2025 International Week “Integrated Internationalisation: Levering Artificial Intelligence”.

The 2025 HSMW International Week focuses on leveraging digitalisation and artificial intelligence to advance integrated internationalisation. The digital transformation of society has profoundly impacted international education, enabling the digitalisation of various aspects of the higher education internationalisation process. Examples include virtual student exchanges, remote postgraduate supervision, international research collaborations facilitated by technology, and data-driven partnership management. In recent years, however, there has been a noticeable shift, with stakeholders refocusing on the physical mobility of students and academics. While virtual exchanges and physical mobility are often seen as contrasting approaches to internationalisation, the aim is to explore a different perspective.

During the 2025 HSMW International Week, the focus will be on how an integrated approach - combining physical mobility with virtual exchanges and other digital transformation elements - can strengthen a student-centered, inclusive internationalisation process. This approach seeks to empower all members of the university community to enhance their intercultural and international skills.

The goal is to conceptualise how the latest advancements in digital transformation, such as AI-driven translation, academic advising, and partnership management tools, can be effectively utilised for this purpose. Through interactive formats, participants and guests will co-create ideas to strategically align digitalisation with internationalisation, thus contributing to university development. This integrated approach aligns with the German University Internationalisation Strategy for 2024–2034.

• Exploring the link between internationalisation and arificial intelligence,
• fostering innovation in internationalisation,
• strengthening partnerships, and fostering new strategic collaborations,
• engaging on specific aspects of internationalisation, including the integration of virtual and physical mobility,
• providing a platform to exhange ideas, share experiences and network professionally,
• connecting researchers.

HSMW's encourage everyone to actively participate – whether you are a researcher or an internationalisation practicioner. You are invited to share a maximum 500-word proposal for a max. 90 minute session, or a 250-word abstract for a paper presentation (max. 20 minutes) or poster presentation. In your submissions, you are not limited to conventional formats, but encouraged to propose innovative forms of engagement. HSMW especially encourages you to conceptualise new formats which you have created. Thematically, submissions should connect to the challenge “Integrated Internationalisation: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence”, which however should be understood as an inspiration to think further rather than a limitation.

Session proposals should be submitted no later than 15 January 2025, whereas abstracts for papers or posters should reach us no later than Friday, 28 March 2025. Please email all submissions to hagenmei@hs-mittweida.de, and copy international_week@hs-mittweida.de.

There are no participation fees for the 2025 HSMW International Week. Guests will be asked to finance their own travel, accommodation and expenses through the Erasmus programme. We will reserve several hotel rooms for participants at selected hotels. If you plan to join us, please register online by 25 April 2025.

Please get in touch with Dr. Cornelius Hagenmeier, Head of Internationalisation for all questions relating to the programme and content. Please contact Dr. Ruslana Ignatenko with all queries relating to logistics.