ANTENA

2nd National Roundtable Discussion took place in Philippines, Coron on March 7-11, 2022 and resulted one of the biggest offline events in Post-COVID time. The Conference had two parts: the 2nd National Round Table Discussion and two workshops. These activities were delivered via the Training the Trainers approach so that the knowledge can be replicated/cascaded to future audiences and beyond in the later stage of the project. The 2nd NRTD served as a preparation for drafting of the “Policy Roadmap for the Implementation of Strategies in the Internationalization of Higher Education in the Philippines”.

The ANTENA project held yesterday (Jan 12th) and today (Jan 13th) the first part of training workshops 3 and 4 on Fundraising opportunities and Project management, and Internationalization and Globalization respectively.

Both workshops are coordinated by the Institutional Project Management Office of the University of Alicante and will be delivered in two phases. The first phase was held online and was attended by 48 people from 10 Philippine universities, the CHED and the 3 European partner institutions: EFMD, UM and the UA.

The third workshop, Fundraising opportunities and Project management, was prepared by the UA team. It was divided into three theoretical parts. The first part was on International Fundraising for HEIs, delivered by Dr. Roberto Escarré, Director of OGPI, who shared interesting information about the fundraising process, the sources of funding for HEIs, the main activities funded by donors, among other points related to the topic.

Today, Wednesday June 16th, 2021, the ANTENA project - Internationalization of Higher Education at the Philippines Network  held the III Online Conference entitled International Accreditation, an event organized by the University of Alicante in coordination with EFMD. The conference was given by Dr. Christophe Terrasse, Director EFMD International Projects, with his extensive experience in the subject offered to all participants a substantial “Menu” of knowledge.

On December 17th, 2020, took place the 1st On-line Conference of the ANTENA project entitled Internationalization of Research, coordinated by the University of Alicante. This activity is the beginning of a series of conferences whose objective is to present topics of interest to the partners within the framework of the project, as well as to open a space to share good practices and enriching experiences of the consortium. This initiative arises to keep learning active and temporarily replace the project's training plan until global mobility is activated and ANTENA's face-to-face workshops and activities are resumed.

This on-line conference was in the hands of Dr. Roberto Escarré, Research Management Service Director of the University of Alicante, where he shared the theory, motivations, measurement as well as institutional and individual practices in the matter.

On July 15 and 16 took place the first ANTENA Project’s First National Round Table and Coordination Meeting, held at De La Salle University (DLSU) in Manila (The Philippines). ANTENA Project, an initiative co-funded by the European Commission and coordinated by OGPI, aims to boost the internationalization of Philippine higher education institutions (HEIs).

During the event initial findings from the national survey it conducted on internationalization in and of Philippine HEIs. ADMU School of Management-Business Resource Center Director John Luis Lagdameo pointed out the top four barriers to mobility in three sectors (student, faculty, and administration and staff):