The Forum’s primary objective is aligned with the mission of FLAD and the ongoing internationalization education projects that it supports: the USA-Portugal Campus initiative; the Study in Portugal Network (SiPN), which has now brought over 1700 students from the USA to Portugal since it started in 2014; and the FLAD UP-Higher Education Internationalization Grant program. Together and with the assistance of a diverse array of institutional partners in Europe and the USA, our project has created a strategy for bringing the USA and Portugal closer together in terms of higher education academic mobility, particularly in terms of giving greater visibility to Portugal in the USA as a destination for study and research.

Simultaneously, FLAD’s goal is to reinforce and expand on the community know-how of administrative staff and top decision makers who work on internationalization at all levels of Portugal’s higher education institutions (HEIs). In particular, FLAD’s objective is to provide knowledge about the US higher education system and how Portuguese HEIs can build their own capacity for more student, staff, and/or faculty mobility to/from the USA.

The Forum seeks to bring both US and European speakers together to focus on key issues and successful case studies that have not been fully elsewhere. The speakers’ profiles and experience will shed light on the “state of the art” for each particular issue area covered in the panels – be it a case from the Portuguese, European or US systems of higher education.

See previous FLAD Forum editions:

• 2024 FLAD Forum ‘s theme: “The Internationalization Imperative: Recruitment, Student Engagement and Creative Models”, agenda.

Access recorded sessions – AM and PM

• 2022 FLAD Forum, agenda.

Access recorded sessions, here.