News from Members

ICC Institutional Member Munster Technological University (MTU) strengthened its international academic engagement recently as Professor Muiris Ó Laoire and Dr Kristin Brogan from MTU Kerry participated in the Interconnected Learning and Teaching Conference (ILT) in Romania. The event brought together leading European universities to explore the future of foreign language education, intercultural communication, and the impact of artificial intelligence on teaching and learning.

Researchers at Munster Technological University (MTU) in Ireland together with partners at Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi (Romania), University of Skovde (Sweden) and L’Université de Rouen Normandie  (France) have embarked on an innovative international research project entitled: “Achieving Internationalisation at home through best practice in modern foreign language and intercultural communication lecturers’ pedagogies”. Funded by the Ingenium Alliance (https://ingenium-university.eu/) the project aims to enable a cross-collaborative sharing of expertise as well the initiation of research proposals to enhance students’ language proficiency as a means of implementing “internationalisation at home”. Another important focus of this research group is looking at best practice in relation to internationalisation at home, i.e. provision of language/intercultural courses and the recognition of internationalisation at home by staff and students.

For further information contact either or both of the Principal Investigators: Dr Kristin Brogan, email: Kristin.Brogan@mtu.ie and Professor Muiris Ó Laoire, email Muiris.OLaoire@mtu.ie