The term Internationalisation at Home (IaH) describes a perspective on internationalisation in the context of higher education that goes back to the Swedish scientist Bengt Nilsson (1999) and, among other things, considers the implementation of an international university campus with corresponding, also language-related offers, as well as an internationalisation of curricula and courses. Nilsson hoped that this form of internationalisation would promote transnational and cultural sensitivity and competence. Internationalisation at Home can help to initiate a more far-reaching discussion about the objectives and prerequisites of internationalisation at higher education institutions, to take this discussion beyond the administrative level, and to open up inclusive access to international experiences for those students whose financial and/or time constraints make a study-related stay abroad difficult.

The restrictions on international mobility due to the coronavirus pandemic have accelerated the further development of IaH formats with regard to the integration of virtual learning worlds. The digitalisation of bilateral courses via blended synchronous learning (Beatty, 2019) offers innovative opportunities for students and researchers to interact in bilateral teams without leaving their own campus. In Passau, digitally supported joint formats of this kind have been tested and further developed in cooperation with our partner institutions in teacher training in Israel and Japan, with a pilot format in cooperation with the Gordon College of Education in Haifa being integrated into the Erasmus+ project ‘WILLIAM - Internationalisation at Home’.