Abstract

GUERRERO, María Verónica Leiva  and  EMBRY, Hery Segovia. Internationalization in institutions of Higher Education: the case of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, Chile. Sér.-Estud. [online]. 2020, vol.25, n.53, pp.143-158.  Epub May 12, 2020. ISSN 2318-1982.  https://doi.org/10.20435/serie-estudos.v0i0.1408.

The development of Internationalization in Higher Education institutions has become a fundamental aspect to address the demands of the environment, in a context of greater interaction and integration of countries in economic, cultural and social aspects, progressively installing the international dimension in the different spaces of academic work and institutional management. The objective of this study is to describe the internationalization processes of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso (PUCV) in relation to student mobility. For this, a quantitative documentary study was developed (BAENA, 1985), collecting information through analysis of documents and statistics from internal sources of the University. The results show that student mobility has been installed as one of the fundamental internationalization actions in its Strategic Development Plan, to consolidate International Academic Cooperation through the creation and strengthening of cooperation networks for student mobility, through exchange programs for a semester in foreign universities affiliated with the PUCV and certification of Spanish as a foreign language. These actions have positioned the PUCV as the second institution of Higher Education with greater mobility of students in the country. However, the number of PUCV students who move to foreign universities is very small in relation to students from foreign universities studying at the PUCV.

Keywords : Higher Education; internationalization; student mobility.

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