First steps towards internationalising the curriculum in a dutch school of midwifery

Abstract

This chapter tells the story of one Dutch Midwifery School’s moves towards internationalising their curriculum. The story begins about ten months ago, when the Faculty of International Business and Communication (FIBC) and the School of Midwifery Education and Studies Maastricht (AVM), both part of Zuyd University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands (Zuyd), joined forces-and resources-to recruit a part-time (0.8 FTU) ‘project leader internationalisation’. This job opening was an answer to Zuyd’s intensified interest in internationalisation. Zuyd’s renewed vision of internationalisation takes the diversity of its ten faculties into account, which means that each faculty identifies its own interests and directions for internationalisation, based on the international and intercultural skills and competences students need to acquire.