title: Internationalisation in challenging times: practices and rationales of internal and external stakeholders
abstract: This is the introduction to a Special Issue which addresses the rationales for and practices of the internationalisation of higher education and research in Europe and Eurasia. The contributors look at a variety of activities within internationalisation, such as collaborative degree/joint programmes, student and staff mobility, and research collaborations. In particular, the articles examine how and why rationales, or motivations and goals for internationalisation, vary or coincide at different 
journal: European Journal of Higher Education