The project idea responds to two specific needs: the need for a data collection and sharing tool/platform for the internationalisation activities of higher education institutions and, the need to bridge the gap in communication and joint work that often exists between HEI faculty, staff, senior management and students in internationalisation efforts and activities. Existing internationalisation indicators do not reflect its diversity adequately and tend to focus on a single dimension of internationalisation performance such as mobility or research impact. The new tool and the stakeholder involvement process will promote the development of a more complete institutional profile that becomes widely used at institutional level and sustainable in time by being: multi-dimensional, recognising that higher education institutions serve multiple purposes and perform a range of different activities and user-driven (as a stakeholder with particular interests, each internal university group will be enabled to monitor their institutions according to the criteria important to them). The project addresses policy objectives, challenges and needs of a specific field (higher education) and contributes to the modernisation of Europe’s higher education systems as outlined in the 2011 EU Modernisation Agenda; it will be implemented by a Strategic Partnership of four organisations from four different EU Member and Non EU programme countries that represent Higher Education Institutions and Research Institutions. The project would consist of three consecutive parts: In a first phase running until the end of 2015 the project would design a multi-dimensional data tool/platform system for internationalisation of higher education institutions and a training module in consultation with project partners and other local and national stakeholders. In a second phase ending in June 2016 the project would test the feasibility of the multi-dimensional tool/platform system for internationalisation on a sample of no less than 40 higher education institutions (10 in each of the project partner countries including the project partners as relevant). In the third and last phase ending in August 2016 the project would disseminate and promote the adoption of the multi-dimensional tool/platform system for internationalisation with HEIs in Europe and with national HE policy makers. The expected results on participants and participant organisations include: increased awareness of the value of the use of data and data sharing for internationalization strategies increased partnership and collaborative working between administrative and academic units at each partner organisation increased capacity of relevant staff in data collection, analysis and sharing The main output of the project is a new internationalisation data sharing tool/platform. This tool/platform will be designed to be an open access product that can be adapted to the needs of different organisations. The project website and the partner organisations' websites will host the guidelines for use and the tool itself after the project finishes. If the pilot implementation on a sample group of HEIs shows that there is demand for this tool a new project would be submitted for EU or other sponsor support to scale up its use at European level. Target groups for the project include: Higher Education Institutions specifically: Senior Management (Presidents/Rectors/Vice Presidents or Vice-Provosts), Directors of Administrative Units, Senior Faculty with research, teaching and cooperation coordination responsibilities, staff at Office of International Activities/Relations. International Higher Education research organisations, associations and networks Businesses with expertise and interest in data management services for education institutions