Reimagining Border in Cross-border Education

Neeta Inamdar is Professor and Head of the Manipal Centre for European Studies (MCES), Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal. She was instrumental in establishing MCES in 2009 and since then, has led it through the years to make it a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence that offers the only master’s program in European Studies in India. Though interested in various aspects of the European economy, society, and culture, she is more drawn toward education in Europe—both school and higher education as reflected in the projects led by her in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), and Bologna Process and Internationalization of Higher Education. She believes in people-to-people “connect” as a means for peaceful coexistence and focuses on research on the educational connect between India and Europe. She has been a recipient of the Jean Monnet module (2014-2017) and Jean Monnet Chair (2017-2020). She was instrumental in the formation of the Association of European Studies in India (AESI) and is presently the Secretary of AESI.Pranjali Kirloskar is lecturer at Manipal Centre for European Studies, MAHE. She has worked on her doctoral thesis in the area of the internationalization of higher education. Presently, she teaches modules of Education, Globalization and Society, Educational Strategic Planning and Management, International Education, Inclusiveness in Education, and others. She is also the Coordinator for the Centre for Education Research at MAHE. She closely works with the partner universities in Europe, Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility Programmes as well as facilitates student and staff mobility at the Department. Pranjali, as a recipient of the Erasmus Mundus scholarship, studied at Leiden University for the academic year 2014-2015 as an exchange student during her master’s degree in European Studies.

• Cross-border Education, Globalization and Asymmetries1. Emergence of Central and Eastern European Countries as Destinations of International EducationPranjali Kirloskar and Neeta Inamdar2. Swedish Students’ Outbound Mobility: An Estimation of the Post-COVID-19 SituationPer Nilsson3. Knowledge Transfer and Management Beyond Borders: An Indo-German Collaboration PerspectiveElizabeth K. Songate, Maren Büttner, Netra Bhandari and Valia Carvalho4. The Impact of Globalization on the Internationalization of Higher Education Policies: A Southeast European PerspectiveTamara Dagen and Melita Kovačević5. Internationalization of Higher Education Across Borders and the Gendered PerspectiveSonam Arora6. Towards a Sustainable Future and Social Justice: Crossing Borders in Doctoral Education ResearchMaresi Nared and Christian PetersCross-border Education and the Dynamics of International Relations7. Global Knowledge Flows, Institutional Hierarchies, and the Roles of Nation StatesKurt Hübner and Conrad King8. Overlapping Spaces of Competition: Unravelling Higher Education RegionalismPriya Vijaykumar Poojary and Neeta Inamdar9. Role of Knowledge Diplomacy in Bridging the North-South DivideArundhati M A10. Bridging the Gap between Populist Governments and Internationalization of Higher Education: A Look at Relationship between the UK and IndiaMedini Hegde11. Comparing Regional Cooperation Developments in the Higher Education Sector in Europe and the Indo-Pacific: In Search of ExplanationsCesar Prado12. The Role of Higher Education in the EU Development Cooperation PolicyStefano GrecoDigital Learning and Alternative Pedagogies13. Introducing “Critical Global Pedagogies” – A Conceptual Model Designed to Rebalance the PowerDynamics of Knowledge SystemsPollyanna Magne14. Virtual Learning Contours in Students of Indian Higher Education InstitutionsSayantan Mandal and Sheriya Sareen15. A Permacrisis Compass: What Does the Digital Transformation Bring to the European HigherEducation and Research?Zane Šime