Internationalisation at Home From a Swedish Perspective: The Case of Malmö

This article will describe the development of the Internationalisation at Home (IaH) perspective emerging from the Swedish way of looking at the core of internationalisation. The IaH concept was “born” in Malmö in 1998 and has—with aid from a large IaH network—become of great concern for higher education at many universities both in Europe and other parts of the world. The basic idea has been to try to let the internationalisation process embrace the whole university: all staff and all students—not only the 10% of the mobile students and a few professors. The article aims to examine and discuss different strategies for implementing the IaH ideas with examples from Malmö University, possible solutions as well as problems and obstacles.