DAAD EVALUATION - Evaluation of the digital DAAD funding programmes - Key results and recommendations

ment of the DAAD funding portfolio and to prepare Relevant impulses for digital international teaching the results for dissemination in the university land- and learning were also developed in IVAC, the pro- scape and beyond. [...] 1.2 Funding organisations 1.1 Federal and state government The results of the accompanying evaluation show According to the evaluation results, the targeted that the digital DAAD funding programmes have promotion of digital internationalisation at German already had a wide range of effects on the digital universities requires a (higher education-) politi- internationalisation of the funded univers. [...] The support of communi- and the added value of international collaboration, ties of practice and the dissemination of success- can be of great benefit to German universities. [...] At the time of the ac- Good practice examples show that the involve- companying evaluation, it was not yet possible to ment of the university leadership is necessary to determine what long-term effects the DAAD pro- create strategic perspectives in which the digital jects will have on the funded universities and on the international teaching and learning formats are university landscape as a whole. [...] After the end of the pandemic, a return certain: With the digital funding programmes, the to a focus on nonvirtual settings within universities DAAD is sending an important signal about the can be observed in many cases; there is a lack of importance of the digital internationalisation of long-term perspectives for the further development German universities.