9.00 am

Registration, Meet & Greet

9.30 am

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Nuno Morais Sarmento, President of FLAD
Michael Baum, Executive Board, FLAD
Douglas Koneff, Deputy Chief of Mission, US Embassy Lisbon

10.00 am

Keynote Speaker

The Imperative of Internationalizing Portuguese Academia: A Personal Perspective

Salwa El- Shawan Castelo-Branco, Professor Emerita of Ethnomusicology
President Emerita – Instituto de Etnomusicologia – Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança (INET-md), Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Coffee Break

10.45 am – 12.30 pm

I Session – The Internationalization Imperative: How Portuguese HEIs can Expand their Recruitment Strategies to the USA and Beyond

Paulo Zagalo e Melo, Senior Internationalization Strategist at Virginia Commonweatlth University, and President Elect at the Association of International Education Administrators (AEIA) – Global Partnerships as International Enrollment Drivers

Cheryl Matherly, Vice-President/Vice-Provost for International Affairs, Lehigh University – Next Directions with Study Abroad: Opportunities for Portuguese and US HEIs

Joel Ericson, Institute for International Education (IIE) International Director, Almaty Kazakhstan – From “Undesirable Organization” in Russia to New Opportunities in Kazakhstan: The Odyssey of an International Office

Panel Discussion and Q&A

12.30 pm – 12.50 pm

The FCT-FLAD-Berkeley protocol “Berkeley Portugal Program”

Elsa Henriques, Executive Board, FLAD

12.50 pm – 1.10 pm

USA Portugal Campus – Road Map to NAFSA 2025

Denise Matos, Coordinator of Internationalization, Agência Nacional Erasmus+ Educação e Formação

1.10 pm – 2.30 pm

Lunch break at FLAD for all attendees

2.30 pm – 4.00 pm

II session – Service Learning & Social Impact

Luísa Mota Ribeiro, Assistant Professor, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP), Faculty of Education and Psychology. Coordinator for Service Learning (CApS), UCP Porto – Service-Learning at UCP: A Journey from Institutional Commitment to Global Partnership

Robert Glover, University of Maine Coordinator and Professor, public-policy and community engagement (Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence) – Service-Learning Research Partnerships to Drive Evidence-Based Public Policy

Sandra Soares, Vice-Rector, University of Aveiro, , Coordinator of the Specialized Internationalization Commission, CRUP (Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities) – New shapes of education in HigherEd in an evolving world

Nuno Comando, Head of Programs, Investments & Communications, Casa do Impacto, Entrepreneurship Hub & Innovation – Impact has the doors open for everyone

Panel Discussion and Q&A

4.00 pm

Coffee Break

4.30 pm – 5.30 pm

III session – Case Studies in Creative Internationalization in Higher Education

Luis Manuel Pais, Vice-President, Bragança Polytechnic Institute – Creative Internationalization in Higher Education: strategies and numbers at the Bragança Polytechnic University

Announcement of the winners of the 2025 FLAD-UP Higher Education Awards, Michael Baum, Executive Board, FLAD

3-5 min pitch from each awardee

5.30 pm – 6.30 pm

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of FLAD’s Study in Portugal Network (SiPN)

Reception at FLAD