Internationalisation and higher education: The case study of a master's degree course in adult education

The paper provides an overview of the main strategies and practices that at a European level have been developed for the internationalization of Higher education. At the same time, it gives an insight on its implementation within the COMPALL project to understand what internationalization should aim at. As a concept, internationalization has a lot of nuances especially when thinking about the programs for research and education it is linked to (see Erasmus+ program). This leads the authors to reflect on the fact that there is no one model that fits all, yet goals, objectives and tools can be common. Through the case study developed between the University of Florence (Master Degree Course in Adult Education, Lifelong Learning and Pedagogical Sciences) and Julius Maximilian University of Wuerzburg, the authors will demonstrate that internationalization of higher education is a central strategy for the formation and the construction of a global scientific community of adult education and the steps that can lead to it can be identified in: 1) Construction of international links for cooperation among European institutions; 2) Modification in the Higher Education curricula in order to reach a common educational path for the formation of the future professionals; 3) Activation of Double and/or Joint Degrees or, more in general, study paths that can be the result of the extension of a Joint Module at a European level.