The Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) is hosting the fifth edition of International Staff Week May 19 – 23, 2025, an event that that will bring together educators and administrative staff from foreign universities. These staff weeks aim to share experiences and consolidate networks to facilitate future collaboration and exchanges.

At this event, the UMH, through its Vice Rectorate for Internationalization and Cooperation, along with the Service of International Relations and Cooperation, organizes a full slate of activities to enable international participants to better learn about Miguel Hernández University, its services, infrastructure, and workflows that may or not be like those at their universities of origin. Staff week also fosters a space for exchanges of culture and extraordinary knowledge with its meetings and interviews with local faculty and staff for exchanging best practices.

Furthermore, the staff week program includes social and cultural activities to help contribute to the goal of nurturing networks and enabling its participants to not only learn more about the UMH, but also about its surroundings and local Spanish culture, elements that are essential for growing and maintaining networks that nurture medium- and longer-term endeavors.

International Staff Week represents an opportunity for UMH internationalization as it consists in hosting educators and staff from foreign universities for one full work week. In fact, this initiative, thanks to its previous editions, was a winner at the recent UMH Board of Trustees Awards in the category of Innovation in Management Actions.

This activity is part of the Erasmus+ program, which affords opportunities to enhance UMH internationalization by fostering the capabilities of university educators and staff within European Union borders. International Staff Week participants are placed in accordance with their training, department, and/or service to better share occupational strategies and methodologies.