The University of Salerno is pleased to announce the signing of the Multilateral Agreement within the NEOLAiA alliance—an important step that makes the internationalization of our students faster, simpler, and more inclusive. The agreement—valid for the entire duration of the project and for all ISCED codes—applies specifically to Blended Intensive Programmes (BIPs), eliminating the need for continual renewals and reducing timelines and administrative steps among partner universities. Launched on 18 April 2025 in response to shared needs that emerged across the alliance’s meetings and concluded with the joint signature of the nine universities on 12 May 2025, this framework provides UNISA with a common infrastructure that makes the joint planning of BIPs quicker and more predictable.
BIPs are intensive pathways that combine a short physical mobility with structured virtual activities, enabling participants to work in international teams, test innovative teaching methodologies, and achieve concrete learning outcomes within a few weeks. Thanks to this format, students can experience high-impact internationalization in a short period, without undertaking long stays abroad. Developed with an innovative pedagogical approach, BIPs engage joint groups of students, academic staff, and administrative staff from different countries who collaborate in person and online on shared learning objectives; courses may also run over multiple years, offering added value compared with existing provision.
This form of mobility fully aligns with NEOLAiA’s strategy of diversity and inclusion, one of the alliance’s pillars: the integration of a virtual component with short physical mobility facilitates participation by those with constraints of schedule, work, or resources, broadening access to international experiences without compromising quality. For UNISA, the Multilateral Agreement means the ability to organize and host BIPs more swiftly, to strengthen the circulation of talent and ideas, and to reaffirm our commitment to building learning pathways that are agile, inclusive, and fully aligned with the challenges of European higher education. In short, it is a concrete step forward that turns internationalization into an opportunity truly within everyone’s reach, enhancing the human capital of our University and the NEOLAiA network.
