ABSTRACT
This chapter reports on a small-scale study carried out at the University of Bologna (UNIBO), Italy, within the frame of the European project ATIAH (Approaches and Tools for Internationalisation at Home, https://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/atiah/). The aim was to investigate how the UNIBO community (students, academic and non-academic staff, policy makers) conceptualized Internationalisation at Home (IaH), namely whether, in their local working/learning environment, they perceived “the purposeful integration of international and intercultural dimensions into the formal and informal curriculum for all students” (Beelen & Jones, 2015: 69). Data was collected through nine interviews (five senior managers, two teachers, two officers) and two focus groups (with staff and students, respectively), and analysed thematically. Three main themes were identified in the overall corpus; participants in the study linked Internationalisation at Home to multilingualism (which includes but it is not limited to English language use and learning), interculturality, and the idea of investing on it to renew the UNIBO curricula.
Keywords: internationalisation at home, interculturality, multilingualism, internationalisation of the curriculum, University of Bologna
