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While demands for sustainable models of internationalization are a recurring theme in the debates on internationalization, it cannot be assumed that shared meanings underlie these discussions and proposed solutions. In the realm of the project INDISTRA, this opinion piece discusses how different understandings and drivers of internationalization might be at odds as HEIs are called to rethink their strategies and practices toward sustainable internationalization and provides some key strategies for implementing sustainable internationalization of HEIs.

The project Determinants and Effects of Collaboration in homogeneous and heterogeneous Research Clusters (DEKiF) focuses on the potential of university and entrepreneurial collaboration in the form of linked resources, personalities, competencies, and exchanged experiences as well as perspectives. Apart from these positive effects, the mixed methods study further highlights the increasing challenges that collaborating companies and universities have to face. The explorative case study of homogenous and heterogenous research cooperation investigated if the theoretical and previously elicted problems, solutions, [...] Full abstract: https://doi.org/10.21249/DZHW:decquant:1.0.0

The chapter starts with a description of the current state of research on the recognition of prior learning and credit transfer at German universities. The subsequent discussion of the concrete practice of recognition and crediting draws on empirical findings obtained in scientific studies accompanying large-scale funding programmes. In this context, the "ANKOM" initiative funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the federal-state competition "Advancement through Education: Open Universities" are of central importance.