Internationalization of Higher Education at Home. An Initiative for Teaching Informatics

Abstract

There is an increasing trend towards internationalization of the Romanian universities, as an expression of the possibilities arisen by globalization. In this context and within the framework of a project developed together with Università della Svizzera italiana from Lugano, “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău aims to improve its study programmes in Informatics, a field with an important role in the sustainable economic growth. An important perspective in teaching Informatics is related to the collaboration and communication skills that students need to acquire. Because nowadays, most of the work teams are international, we consider providing our students a double-degree master's programme. In order to determine the opportunity of such an initiative, we have explored the profile of the graduates in Informatics from “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, as well as the interests of the final year students. The study allowed us to envisage the topics that the students are interested in, therefore, to design the most appropriate curricula for the double master's degree.