Life as a newcomer
Explore unfamiliar expectations, finding your way and building connections in a new environment.
For universities and universities of applied sciences
Support your international students and the teams around them.
Practical workshops for your students. Focused sessions for the people supporting them. Designed with your institution to complement the support you already provide.
01 / Workshops for your students
Start with your students, not a fixed programme.
Your university arranges the workshop; your students take part. Together, we shape the topic and activities around their situation and your programme.
Possible topics, not a fixed catalogue
From study to work
Make sense of opportunities, explain your experience and choose a realistic next step.
Intercultural communication skills
Practise asking questions, checking assumptions and communicating across different expectations.
Using the Activation Framework
Use Stability, Translation, Navigation and Visibility to reflect on what is getting in the way of progress.
A practical focus, not just a presentation.
Depending on the topic, students can work on a next-step plan, reflect on a real situation or practise a conversation they need to have.
02 / Activation Framework for your team
Start with what your team is seeing.
For career services, international offices and student-support teams. Apply the Activation Framework to real student experiences and choose one practical support improvement to test.
- Stability
- Do practical pressures leave students enough capacity to take a next step?
- Translation
- Are students’ skills, experience and expectations understood?
- Navigation
- Are the routes to support, opportunities and next steps clear?
- Visibility
- Can students build connections and make their contribution visible?
One situation. One improvement to test.
Map what is getting in the way, review how your support responds and agree an action, an owner and a point to review progress. Connect the steps students can take with the changes your institution can make.
03 / Working together
Fit the session to the people involved.
Understand the need
Tell us who the session is for, what you are noticing and what you would like to work on.
Shape the session
Agree the topic, activities and useful outputs with the people coordinating the workshop.
Agree before starting
Confirm the scope, format, timing, responsibilities and fee before the work begins.
Let’s shape a useful session.
A few lines about your students or team are enough to start. There is no public standard price; we agree the scope and fee with your institution.