UNIVERSITIES'STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONALISATION: CONTEXTUAL DETERMINANTS.

Over the last few decades, the Erasmus programme has served as an impetus for internationalisation in higher education on the institutional and national levels. The aim of the article is to present the results of qualitative comparative analysis of three cases in order to explore three different universities' strategies for internationalisation (Vienna, Granada, Lausanne) in three diferent national contexts (Austria, Spain, Switzerland), and their various approaches to the Erasmus programme, and mobility in particular. Although sharing common goals, instritments and activities created at the EU level, different approaches to internationalisation, the Erasmits programme and the mobility concept are evidenced, which have consequently brought various effects and outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]