The Erasmus+ mobility project serves as a follow up to the mutual training activities described in the above. It has the title: teaching and learning English language and subject content in secondary and higher education and concentrate around CLIL and ‘English as a Medium of Instruction’ (EMI). The program also concentrates on the links and interaction between university teacher training, secondary schools and (in Kazakhstan) private providers of professionalisation programmes.

Internationalisation strategy

ICLON adheres strongly to the Leiden University internationalisation policy through its strong international research programme, its teacher training (World Teacher Program), training for university staff on ‘teaching and learning in the international classroom’ and through the execution of training programs for foreign higher education institutions. The Government of Kazakhstan is pursuing the internationalisation of higher education since its independence in 1991. In this context, Kazakhstan has encouraged the implementation of the European structure of academic, a national quality-assurance system and a Western-style credit system.

From March 2016 onwards, different staff members from four Kazakh Universities visited ICLON for a week each. In the same period staff of ICLON visited our Kazakh partner Universities.

In 2016 our programme concentrated on Blended Learning and Early Career Research. In 2017 and 2018 the topic was Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and Inclusive Education. 

While in the Netherlands, Kazakh staff was intensively exposed to these topics through workshops and school visits. In Kazakhstan workshops on these topics were jointly prepared, for university and secondary school teachers in Nur-Sultan, Almaty, Pavlodar and Aktobe. Many one day to one week workshops were given over the period, in which over 400 university,  secondary and primary school teachers participated.

Our projects also have a range of spin-off results, including internships of ICLON students in Kazakhstan and a close cooperation, including pupils exchange.