For me, thinking about the internationalization of the institution/school is not a novelty. For the approval of Erasmus+ KA1 projects, the Portuguese National Agency privileges the institutions with internationalization projects. As I mentioned in previous publications, my institution has a European Development Plan. In a future revision, it should be called the "Internationalization Plan". As co-author of the plan, it was necessary to think about why we started with the internationalization, what were the objectives, what strategies, what activities, how to measure, how to evaluate and what impact to expect from the implementation of the plan.
the plan was based on the identification of the institution's needs:

Currently, after this training, I consider that the internationalization, operated by the International Development Plan, is justified by new needs:

Internationalization must involve a school policy with an international vision, national policies and the major recommendations of the European Union. School activities, either within the curriculum or across the curriculum, should take place in an integrated way and with a common purpose.
In today's session, we also saw some examples of international policies, worked on a possible proposal for our institution and discussed the different points of view of the participants regarding internationalization.
I share with you one of our activities to disseminate our internationalization: our website dedicated to the Erasmus+ Project of our School.

- encouraging better student preparation;

- affirmation of the institution's international profile;

- internationalization of training curricula;

- strengthening research and knowledge production;

- incorporation of diversity in teaching and administrative staff.

What are the positive points of an internationalization policy?

- promotion of the mother tongue and foreign languages;

- an international teaching staff helps to increase the recognition of institutions, as it attests to their quality;

- the internationalization of institutions facilitates the integration of international students, researchers, teachers and non-teaching staff;

- the recognition of the quality of Portuguese education, like other countries, makes it an exportable product / industry, which can bring significant results to the country in the economic sphere;

- the reinforcement of the “training of young people, stimulating the acquisition of learning, scientific and technological competences, linguistic proficiencies, multicultural capacities and international skills”.

The internationalization of Portuguese education may include:

- Mobility programs, such as Erasmus;

- Installation of campuses of Portuguese institutions in other countries;

- Distance learning: it has evolved slowly, but there is a great emphasis on the Open University;

- Massive Open Online Courses, MOOC: an opportunity for the development of strategic partnerships between institutions, which has the support of the European Commission.

Although, in theory, we globally agree with this framework, in practice, its state of development and implementation varies according to the contexts and needs of school education institutions in the different countries involved in this process. The path to sharing this global network, which promotes key competences for lifelong learning, leveraged by international projects such as Erasmus +, aims to strengthen the visibility of institutions and training offer, increase the recruitment of students (citizens of the world) and contribute to increase exports of quality education services.

- Global education starts in yourself but it is great to have all the papers all right.
- International policy - reasonable and useful tool to make in order not only thoughts but also all international work in school.