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Use of Higher Education Institutions for SME Internationalization

Society development depends on strong and continuous collaboration between all the stakeholders. HEIs that take care of students’ employability are aware of the need for creating relationships with companies in their ecosystem and adopting its educational programs and other services to the needs of them. Taking into account the needs of students and the needs of SMEs, HEI should create relevant and up-to-date education programs and teaching materials and methods. This paper presents a case study of a successful project (INTENSE) which tackled this challenge. Project INTENSE focuses on the need of SMEs to internationalize in order to be and stay competitive and the need for adopting educational programs in order to develop competent and employable graduates for that need and activity. HEIs that participated in this project created and evaluated new teaching resources, SMEs had the opportunity to learn about internationalization process and gather knowledge about new markets, and students built their skills and broaden their knowledge by working in international environment.

Higher Education Institutions, teaching, internationalization

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