Internationalization strategy of innopolis university

Abstract

Since the establishment of Innopolis University, there was an emphasis placed on the importance of internationalization and international cooperation for its further development, especially in terms of teaching in the English language only, recruiting staff from different cultures and regions of the world, enrollment of students from different countries and educational systems, as well as developing study abroad and joint teaching and research initiatives. Being an English-speaking university in a non-English-speaking country, Innopolis University and its International Relations Office, in particular, as it is responsible for the internationalization strategy of Innopolis University, managed to achieve what might be considered as a significant degree of its internationalization. This paper describes the course of actions taken by Innopolis University towards its internationalization, the strategy adopted and the instruments applied. The definition of internationalization, in general, is briefly discussed and it is suggested that the strategy of internationalization has to be individually considered by every higher education institution as the term is relatively broad. The instruments are described as they were applied by Innopolis University and as they were applied at the time of writing this paper and therefore, there might be certain limitations if adopted.