Internationalisation has brought significant economic and social benefits to the UK, and intellectual opportunities for scholarship, while transforming universities into global institutions.
Collaborations with international partners continue to be vital to the ongoing success of the UK’s research and innovation sector.
However, risks associated with internationalisation are increasingly dynamic and growing in complexity. These risks are faced by all universities, Sussex included.
In October 2020, in response to the Government’s commission, UUK published its guidelines: “Managing Risks in Internationalisation: Security Related Issues”, to support universities to protect themselves, their staff and students, and to manage risks associated with internationalisation, amid intensified international strategic competition, political polarisation and backlash against globalisation.
The University is now running some training: What foreign interference might look like - as part of the Sussex’s response to the UUK recommendations.
The training aims to raise awareness of how hostile state actors might seek to interfere with work in universities and how that could affect the intellectual property of academics; the aim is to make you aware of commonly deployed tactics and know what to look for and report to the University.
We will run two sessions on 6 July and 7 July, both at 13.00-14.30.
Please register for one of the sessions using the following links.