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This volume highlights new trends and projects in Internationalisation at Home (IaH) and internationalisation of the Higher Education curriculum in the UK and around the world. It brings together the contributions of academics and practitioners in the sector operating in different fields, from curriculum development to language teaching and academic support

Internationalisation of higher education at home is a relatively new phenomenon for Russia but, as a concept, it is one that is both broad and variable. The internationalisation of higher education at home has been influenced by the globalisation of economies and societies and the increased importance of knowledge. It is driven by a dynamic and constantly evolving combination of political, economic, socio-cultural and academic rationales. These motives take different forms and dimensions in different regions, in institutions and within their educational programmes. This study covers an intensive course named "Cross-cultural Communication" and its impact within Tempus, Erasmus+ and other funding programmes as well as traditional content of this course. The content of the course is evaluated through several approaches. The starting point is to consider how particular courses are taken into account in long-term strategies of universities, and on the other hand, how these intensive courses advance the implementation of internalisation strategies. Another approach concerns internationalisation at home and helps find out how, specifically, intensive courses advance internationalisation. The next point covers education and teaching development and shows what role particular courses have in the transfer of teaching methods, materials and whole course concepts in Russian higher education institutions.

The present report is entrenched in the curricular internship carried out in the company INDICE ICT & MANAGEMENT, LDA in the city of Leiria. The aim of this report is the finalization of the Master's in International Business. The main activity of the company is based in the execution and monitoring of investment projects for the entrepreneurial sector, namely through the support of the granting of European funds. The internship comprised 1040 hours, I developed activities related with the elaboration of investment projects for companies, whose main focus is the international path. The execution of this internship allowed me to apply the knowledge assimilated previously. Furthermore, the internship allowed the acquisition of new knowledge, through ideas sharing, undoubtedly resulting on an enriched experience. When following an international pathway, all firms can benefit from a rewarding experience, besides increasing their competitiveness, boosting of national economy in the marketplace. Considering the small domestic market, companies are obliged to take the international path. Nevertheless, this global process is not straightforward, and it presupposes a set of boundaries that need to be surpassed. Recently, national governments have had some influence in the internationalisation process of firms, resulting in the most feasible investment solutions. The current internship report intends to clarify what are the constraints experienced linked to the global sphere for the multinational firms, but also for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Additionally, this report intends to understand the way national politics contribute to the success of the overseas investment.

Purpose
Higher education institutions (HEIs) around the world are engaged in internationalisation efforts. Yet internationalisation per se is associated with significant pressures on the environment and environmental resources, which need to be addressed. This study aims to assess the opportunities, benefits and challenges associated with the internationalisation of universities at a global level.


Design/methodology/approach
A total of 27 relevant case studies were extracted from the literature to illustrate how HEIs worldwide are ensuring sustainability in their internationalisation efforts.


Findings
Through case studies of international HEIs, the study lists the opportunities, benefits and challenges associated with the internationalisation of universities at a global level and some of the measures that may be deployed to reduce the environmental impacts of their international activities.


Originality/value
This study provides a welcome contribution to the literature because it outlines some of the works taking place at universities, where matters related to sustainable development are considered against a background of internationalisation efforts.

Altres ajuts: Acord CSUC-Emerald ; Purpose: This paper aims to elaborate on the crucial effects that a seemingly detrimental policy change in Spain has had on the international entrepreneurial activities of domestic renewable energy (RE) firms. Design/methodology/approach: Primary data were collected from nine RE companies in Spain and then triangulated with secondary data and interviews from informants in other local institutions. Findings: Domestic RE firms, due to an institutional scape driver action, reacted to an increasingly uncertain and generally more adverse renewable energy policy framework in this country by preferring to internationalise towards foreign markets that had lower political uncertainty than the domestic one. Research limitations/implications: This paper complements previous research primarily on firm-specific factors that enhance internationalising firms' survival and growth through a focus on the impact of a changing institutional-political environment at the home country-level. Practical implications: Practitioners in the RE sector should analyse the risk of focusing only on the home market, as it can be too dependent on uncontrolled variations in domestic energy policy. Social implications: The findings indicate that a more stable and supportive, long-term perspective in the domestic RE policy is essential for the sustained growth and development of this emerging industry. Originality/value: To analyse the strategy by which a number of purposefully selected companies were able to use international expansion as a survival-seeking strategy against a drastic policy-level change in the domestic RE market.

The War at Home. By John Connor, Peter Stanley and Peter Yule (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. xii+284, AU$59.95 (cloth).

"At the height of the Third Reich, media outlets around the world showcased Hitler's homes to audiences eager for behind-the-scenes stories. After the war, fascination with Hitler's domestic life continued as soldiers and journalists searched his dwellings for insights into his psychology. The book's rich illustrations, many previously unpublished, offer readers a rare glimpse into the decisions involved in the making of Hitler's homes and into the sheer power of the propaganda that influenced how the world saw him."--Publisher's description

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Notice -- Table of Contents -- Dedications -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Section I: The Mommy Wars: Communiques Across the Barricades -- 1. So, What Do You Do? -- 2. Maternal Ambivalence -- 3. Navigating the Narrow Pass of Motherhood -- 4. Are "Mommy Wars" Real? -- Section II: On the Home Front: National Perspectives -- 5. Staying At Home -- 6. Stay at Home Jewish Mothers -- 7. Young Mothers in the UK -- 8. Mothering from a Caribbean Perspective -- 9. Mediating the Mommy Wars in Contemporary Germany -- 10. Integrating Choices -- 11. The Mommy Curve -- Section III: New Angels and Old Demons: Manifestations of Mothers at Home -- 12. Cyber-Mothers -- 13. Are Stay-at-Home Mothers Really at Home? -- 14. Eco-Momma -- 15. Smart Women, Different Choices -- 16. "But She Has A Nanny"...With Accompanying Eye Roll -- 17. 'Quiet Desperation' -- 18. Making it Work -- 19. The Day After, and the Day After That -- Section IV: When the War is Over: Re-imagining Stay-at-Home Mothering -- 20. How Alternative Mothering is Transforming American Stay-at-Home Motherhood -- 21. It's Time to Move Beyond the "Mommy Wars" -- 22. Seeing Themselves -- 23. Motherhood as an Act of Personal and Social Co-creation -- 24. The Free Gift -- 25. Conclusion -- 26. Contributors' Biographies.

Radical faerie culture produces modern sexual minorities by mediating their racial and national relationship to histories of colonization. Radical faeries arose in the US by forming itinerant rural gatherings--and, over time, landed rural sanctuaries to host them--where they sought to liberate an authentic gay subjectivity grounded in indigenous cultural roots. I examine the formation of rural sanctuaries and gatherings as sources for gay liberation by investigating how they are structured as spaces of homecoming. Radical faeries who travel to gatherings and sanctuaries arrive at home--despite neither originating nor remaining at these sites--when they find in rural spaces and in tales of indigeneity a self-acceptance and shared nature that grants new belonging to settled land. I narrate key moments when practices of rural mobility and emplacement call gay men home to authentic subjectivity and radical community, by means of loving communion, multigenerational rural ties, indigenous spirituality, and a newly indigenized relationship to settled land. My argument arises from reflexive ethnographic interpretation of the quotidian practices of gatherings and sanctuaries. My ethnographic attention marks the integrity of radical faerie culture as a creative mediation of the racial, national, and colonial conditions of sexuality. My analysis calls queer studies to attend more deeply to the intersectionality and coloniality of sexual minority formations in settler societies, and to let ethnographic interpretation mark both how normative power relations condition sexualities and how sexual subjects creatively engage them.