Internationalisation Strategy
Use the potential of internationalisation for the further development of HM Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences. Participate actively in shaping the European Higher Education and Research Area. Intensify partnerships, expand networks and develop new exchange formats. Promote global thinking in education, research, corporate relations, knowledge transfer and university life and enable students to become global citizens. These are the guiding principles of the internationalisation strategy of HM.
2023 HM has published its third internationalisation strategy. It is the result of a strategy process in which all relevant stakeholders of the university were involved. Previously, HM had successfully participated in the "Internationalisation of Universities Re-Audit" of the German Rectors' Conference (HRK).
Forming part of HM’s overall strategy, this document has been integrated into the University Development Plan (“Hochschulentwicklungsplan”, or HEP) as internationalisation is an issue that touches on all aspects of university life.
The internationalisation strategy also provides the departments with a framework which they can apply in order to enhance their strategic position and to raise their own international profile. Building on this, the departments set out their own focus areas.
It defines the vision, the overarching strategic and concrete goals as well as measures of internationalisation in the areas of Education, Research, Corporate Relations and Knowledge Transfer, Resources and Processes, and Organisation and Management:
Strategic goals
- Understand students as competent and responsible shapers of a globalised future
- Expand university education in the specialist disciplines and alongside megatrends in a targeted way to include issues of international relevance
- Offer members of the teaching staff encouragement to develop their international profiles and concepts
- Shape an internationally open campus through social and digital innovation
- Internationalise teaching offerings in a systematic and quality-assured manner
- Increase participation in EU funding programmes
- Networking with international partner universities
- Establish international competence as qualification of junior researchers
- Kickstart research careers and their international development
- Internationalise e’ship activities
- Create and promote innovative international start-ups
- Strengthen knowledge transfer and research with society
- Expand international practice cooperations
- Make use of and develop the international experience and intercultural competence of staff members
- Ensure international communication at HM
- Ensure the international visibility of HM
- Use and develop infrastructures and services for digital internationalisation processes and projects
- Ensure equal opportunities in international activities
- Raise the university’s profile and positioning at an international level over the long term
- Establish international connections with strategic partner universities