Jeroen Torenbeek and Inez Meurs both are allrounders in the field of Internationalising Higher Education. Although they work from different, complementary perspectives, they share one fundamental conviction: never think of something of which the implementation is not arguably simple and feasible. When advising on the set-up of a Summer School on an assumingly less desirable […]

Upon request both Inez Meurs and Jeroen Torenbeek give presentations, participate in forum discussions and provide training courses in the field of internationalisation of Higher Education. Since 2005 Inez and Jeroen offer training courses for the European Association of International Education. Initially on managing an International Relations Office, later mainly on International Project Management and […]

Interim Management

There are several reasons to work with an interim manager. Sometimes a strong hand is needed in a reorganisation process, sometimes an organisation wants to buy time before decisions are being made on a new structure. Ziggurat offers interim management in both types of situations. In 1999 – 2000 Jeroen acted as interim director at […]

Consultancy

Virtually anyone can use good advice sometimes (which does not automatically have to be expensive). We advised on stalled relationships within the university, on projects that got out of hand, but also on completely new initiatives. And not unimportant; we usually did so also getting our own hands dirty. Some examples from the past: in […]

Summer Schools

After Jeroen’s experience with the Utrecht Summer School Ziggurat contributed to the success of a number of other Summer Schools. In Almere (Netherlands) and Biella (Italy), we advised on the design of new Summer Schools and launched these effectively. In others, for example Barcelona, Tilburg and Leeds we advised on the content or other specific […]

When will this website be of interest to you?

You are interested in (solving) a problem in the field of internationalisation of higher education. For instance with respect to quality control and accreditation. Or related to networking and positioning an institution or a department.

You may be interested in starting or expanding an academic Summer School (one of our specialties).

In any case you are looking for solutions that show guts and creativity. You do not want a tunnel vision or middle of the road solutions. In short, you appreciate divergent thinking.

Or you are just curious to find out what Inez Meurs, Jeroen Torenbeek and their colleagues are working on.

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