In this paper, we present the first analysis of the main international cooperation actions carried out by the Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona (FIB), from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya -BarcelonaTech (UPC), in its almost forty-five years of history. The wide range and diversity of these actions have been consolidated in the operation of the FIB and have improved the academic activity and the educational offer of the school. It is important to highlight that the decentralized organisation of the UPC allows each school to organise and manage its educational offer and its internationalisation policies with a notable degree of independence.In this institutional context, the identification and classification of the FIB's international cooperation activities, and the study of their relationships with the educational activities of the school have allowed us to prepare a micro-level type of study that is rarely present in the literature [1].Based on the analysis of institutional documentation, both from FIB and UPC, and the testimonials of the different people involved in the international cooperation overall experience of the FIB, we first list the internationalisation actions and then we classify and evaluate them in their respective context. The classification is done along three axes: 1) the set of internationalisation descriptors proposed by Guillaume & Vanholsbeeck [2]; 2) the higher education internationalisation cycle proposed by Perez-Encinas [3] as an extension of Knight's [4]; and 3) the relevant historical periods of the FIB emerging from our study, from 1976 up to 2017. In addition, we also analyse various academic indicators (students enrolled per year, graduates, access grades, etc.) and we relate them to the available international cooperation indicators (number of students in incoming and outgoing mobility, number of agreements, etc.). We have faced in this task some difficulties due to incomplete or inconsistent data, luckily not central to our purpose.
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