The SPACE network is an international network of higher education institutions that provides opportunities for collaboration on projects, research, teaching and learning for members. It offers an annual conference for sharing ideas, a journal for disseminating research, and support for project development. The network facilitates student and teacher exchanges, joint programs, and sharing of resources to benefit research, education, and technical support for members. Members gain access to partnerships and a community for advancing internationalization.

1. SPACE NETWORK

2. BENEFITS OF NETWORKING
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3. 10 BENEFITS OF NETWORKS
1. Shared knowledge – helps to expand knowledge and allow to see things from
another perspective. To learn and avoid pitfalls
2. Opportunities
3. Connections – building connections
4. Increase confidence – by pushing yourself to talk to people you do not know
it will help to increase your confidence
5. Raising your profile – being visible and getting noticed
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4. 10 BENEFITS OF NETWORKS
6. Advice and support – networking will give you the opportunity to get advice
from your peers
7. Positive influence – surround yourself with positive, uplifting people that
help you to grow and thrive
8. Satisfaction from helping others
9. Friendship
10. Get fresh ideas – source of new perspectives and ideas
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5. SPACE NETWORK
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7. WHO THEY ARE (PRESENT)
 The SPACE network is an international network of predominantly professional higher
education institutions including universities and VET schools servicing researchers, teachers
and students on levels 5, 6 and 7, in the field of (broad sense) business, languages,
entrepreneurship and hospitality.
 It provides participation in a wide range of prestigious projects and also
assistance concerning the submission and management of European projects, new teaching
& learning and conceptual and applied research/innovation, besides being a space for
sharing and dissemination of new teaching and learning materials and methodologies,
research & innovation, and outcomes of projects.
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9. ACTIVITIES (ADDRESSING NEEDS OF ALL TARGETS)
 International conference
 Targets: researchers, teachers, students
 Format: academic paper, pedagogical cases, business cases, posters
 Allows disseminating results, ideas, projects. Promotes the contact between
researchers, collaboration. Emergence of ideas for future projects; building trust
and confidence. Allows knowing better partners.
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10. ANNUAL CONFERENCE
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11.  Journal of advances in higher education
 Targets: researchers, teachers, students
 Publication of research and pedagogical experiences;
dissemination of research results. Usually there is a special issue
with the best papers of the conference.
 Possibility to prepare special issues of other journals
(indexed) with thematic papers presented in the conference.
Ex: International Journal of Technology and Human
Interaction
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12.  Projects
 Targets: researchers, teachers
 Support in the preparation of projects prospoals, submission of project’s proposal, find
partners, involvement in projects leaded or preapared by SPACE.
 Elearning
 Target: teachers
 Elearning courses prepared by members at the disposal of partners. Sharing
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13.  Special activities / events
 Targets: teachers, researchers, students
 Focused in certain topics allowing partners to share their experiences, doubts, concerns.
 Ex: MACOMIP – mini intensive programme about marketing communications. Last topic: “Healthy food for
young people” – preparation of a marketing communication plan
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEo9xWfSWnE
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWad25-nqzw
Evento for 2017 – teachers.
 Workshop “Educational Storytelling: How to prepare a story to present to our students?” - + visit to a tv
channel
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14.  Meetings (focused on certain topics).
 Targets: researchers, IO staff
 Ex: preparation of project proposals, students competition
 Intermediary
 SPACE belongs to other networks (ex: EURASHE) which allows members to have a voice in
those networks even not being a member there
 Right place to find partners for exchange of students, teachers and staff and prepare
agreements
 Facilitates to build trust and confidence among partners (ex: case of the double
diploma)
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15.  Communication – email + newsletters
(dissemination of information from members
to members) – website, Facebook profile
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16. Newsletter
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17. Members’ private area
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18. ADVANTAGES OF BELONGING TO AN INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS
Extra-curricular strategies
Contributes to:
Find international student advisers;
organize orientation programmes and
share good practices; help students to
create and learn about international
students associations
Research
Contributes to:
Promote international collaboration between researchers;
allows to incorporate na international perspective in the
HEI and research centres and programmes; promotes the
collaboration among international partners; helps
comparative studies; dissemination of research results and
sharing of knowledge (reviews, publications, databases,
conferences, seminars, workshops, colloquia); promotes
research mobility)
Technical support
Allos to share good practices and ideas
Education
Students exchange; foreign languages studies; recruitment
of foreign students for full degree programmes;
opportunities; international cooperation agreements;; joint
SPACE
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19. INVITE YOU TO TAKE A LOOK AT OUR FACEBOOK AND WEBSITE
 https://www.facebook.com/www.spaceuniversities.info/
 http://www.space-network.org/
 President of SPACE network
 Anabela Mesquita – sarmento@iscap.ipp.pt
 Secretarial services
 Julie Verstraeten - julie.verstraeten@space-network.org
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