Our international profile
We see ourselves as Dortmund's window to the world. And as a space in which internationality can be experienced and lived in Dortmund. Because we have experience of this in the region; with 5 million inhabitants, the Ruhr region is a melting pot of cultures and extremely adept at integration.
We promote exchange for students, teaching staff and employees with our international partners; with over 140 partner universities from around 50 countries worldwide.
We provide our international students with a qualified range of support services. This is part of the wide range of advice and support offered by our International Office.
In addition to our internationally oriented study programs, guest lecturers from all over the world help to make our university even more attractive. We are also pleased about the many successful activities of our faculties and institutes, which raise our international profile.
Internationality goes hand in hand with cultural diversity and a welcoming culture.
Campus International 2025
"Fachhochschule Dortmund will be an international campus by 2025".
This is the overarching goal against which we want to shape our future actions. It is the overarching bracket for the orientation of the goals and activities in the internationalization of Fachhochschule Dortmund and the cornerstone of our university-wide internationalization strategy.
"Campus International" expresses the university's self-image of being a cosmopolitan place in which cultural diversity and cultural skills are valued and promoted.
For the university, a "Campus International" is inextricably linked to an established university-wide culture of welcoming international students, lecturers, researchers and staff who come to us at the university, and to an institutional (foreign) language policy that enables university-wide visibility in German and English in all areas, both internally and externally.
Video series "5 questions for international lecturers"
In the video series "5 questions for international lecturers", lecturers from different countries answer a handful of questions about their impressions of Dortmund and the cooperation between their home university and Fachhochschule Dortmund.
They also reveal what students and lecturers from Dortmund should be prepared for when visiting their home country - and share one or two anecdotes.
The video series is a cooperation between the Vice-Rectorate for Communication and Internationalization and the Institute for Higher Education Didactics(Opens in a new tab) (Department of Innovative Teaching/Video Lab).
5 questions for... Julie Rabodonirina, France
5 questions for... Prof. J.R. Nataraj, India
5 questions for... Dr. Aaron Brown, USA
5 questions for... Vesna Micovic, Serbia
5 questions for... Bruno Boudeau, France
5 questions for... Elena Bojadzieva, North Macedonia
5 questions for... Prof. Dr. Fredy López-Pérez, Colombia
Strategic internationalization of the university
Following on from participation in the "Internationalization of Universities" audit process(Opens in a new tab) of the German Rectors' Conference (HRK) in 2010/11, a variety of strategic aspects have already been further developed in recent years in order to promote internationalization.
For example, the HRK re-audit format "Internationalization of Universities"(Opens in a new tab) , which built on the audit, was successfully completed in 2022 and internationalization was thus taken even further into the breadth of the university.
With the establishment of a dedicated Vice-Rectorate for Internationalization and the inclusion of internationalization as one of the four focus topics in the new University Development Plan 2020-2025, Fachhochschule Dortmund has committed itself to the ever-increasing relevance of strategic internationalization.
With the "Campus International 2025" strategy adopted in 2022, we are adapting the orientation o"Internationalization of Universities"(Opens in a new tab) , which built on the audit, was successfully completed in 2022 and internationalization was thus taken even further into the breadth of the university.
With the establishment of a dedicated Vice-Rectorate for Internationalization and the inclusion of internationalization as one of the four focus topics in the new University Development Plan 2020-2025(Opens in a new tab) , Fachhochschule Dortmund has committed itself to the ever-increasing relevance of strategic internationalization.
With the "Campus International 2025" strategy adopted in 2022, we are adapting the orientation of the previous internationalization strategy and our focus on internationalization for the coming years in line with the current university development plan.
