Reimagining Border in Cross-border Education

About

Neeta Inamdar is Professor and Head of the Manipal Centre for European Studies (MCES) Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) Manipal. She was instrumental in establishing MCES in 2009 and since then has led it through the years to make it a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence that offers the only masters program in European Studies in India. Though interested in various aspects of the European economy society and culture she is more drawn toward education in Europeboth school and higher education as reflected in the projects led by her in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and Bologna Process and Internationalization of Higher Education. She believes in people-to-people connect as a means for peaceful coexistence and focuses on research on the educational connect between India and Europe. She has been a recipient of the Jean Monnet module (2014-2017) and Jean Monnet Chair (2017-2020). She was instrumental in the formation of the Association of European Studies in India (AESI) and is presently the Secretary of AESI.Pranjali Kirloskar is lecturer at Manipal Centre for European Studies MAHE. She has worked on her doctoral thesis in the area of the internationalization of higher education. Presently she teaches modules of Education Globalization and Society Educational Strategic Planning and Management International Education Inclusiveness in Education and others. She is also the Coordinator for the Centre for Education Research at MAHE. She closely works with the partner universities in Europe Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility Programmes as well as facilitates student and staff mobility at the Department. Pranjali as a recipient of the Erasmus Mundus scholarship studied at Leiden University for the academic year 2014-2015 as an exchange student during her masters degree in European Studies.