INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL SKILLS: INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT WORK

Higher education should provide learning situations that prepare students for a future profession

and make them world-ready. This paper reports insights from an international interdisciplinary

collaborative project aiming to create learning experiences that are close to a professional

situation. The collaboration setup simulates a setting of a digital agency with a development

team in Sweden and a marketing team in Australia working together to solve a task. The

collaborative project has been active since 2017, completing its fifth iteration in 2021. Postcourse

survey results show that the students felt that a real situation was created with a high

level of collaboration and commitment, internationalization, well selected digital collaborative

tools, and that an interdisciplinary community of practice was created among the students.