Global Learning Capacity Building

A multi-year initiative project launched in 2023 aims to address students’ graduate attributes essential for global employability, including adaptability, collaboration, and social awareness. Its focus is on bolstering students’ global perspectives and ability to navigate intercultural competence.

In the first year, the project kicked off with a collaboration between BINUS University and the Rotterdam Business School. Together, we developed content for a cultural awareness module designed that can be delivered internally for new batches of students. This module is carefully crafted to enhance participants’ understanding of different cultures and promote cross-cultural collaboration.

In the second year, the project focuses on developing a module for lecturers for inclusive classroom management. The online training program, which will be regularly conducted in the coming years by project champions, will gear up new and existing BINUS lectures with methodologies to maximize benefits of our growing classroom diversity in teaching and learning processes. At the same time, the student module is being rolled out to inbound and outbound student batches. Comprehensive evaluations have also been initiated to assess its effectiveness.

Recognizing that the project’s success relies on the involvement of various stakeholders, including lecturers, staff, and leaders, the final project year focuses on mainstreaming the training programs with the stakeholders and scaffolding the initiative with the supporting campus wide inclusivity policies. This includes analyses to gauge the program’s impact on attitudes, behaviors, and perceptions regarding cultural awareness and global perspectives, as well as climate of inclusion.

Through this project, BINUS University aims to cultivate more globally competent and culturally sensitive internationalization by enhancing the community’s readiness for the increasingly interconnected world through global perspectives, intercultural competence, and inclusive collaboration.