The University for Continuing Education Krems defined its strategic framework based on its strenghts: many years of experience in the field of academic continuing education, tailored study programs and transdisciplinary research addressing societal challenges, a study model oriented towards the specific requirements of adult learners, which ensures an intense transfer of knowledge and skills between students and teachers, all offered in a service-oriented campus and working environment.
Against this background, two key strategies to the topics of digitalisation and internationalisation were formulated in 2020 and 2021. Even though formulated individually and by separate teams in collaboration with the university, the key strategies "Stronger Consideration of Digital Transformation Processes. Shaping digital change" and "Expansion of international activities. Global learning and global engagement" respond to the need for education in a global environment, in which internationalisation highly depends on digitalisation and vice-versa. This manifests in common goals and formats regarding international cooperation, curricular and extracurricular mobility, internationally available research, and measures regarding internationalisation at home. These common goals and formats will be presented in a tandem presentation by the heads of the "Teaching Innovation and Digital Competence Development" and "Service Center for International Relations" units. The contents and the method of the presentation, in tandem, are meant to illustrate the fields of action and the specific measures for implementation but also the deepened collaboration based on individual expertise in the two fields of internationalisation and digitalisation, which is, we will argue, a prerequisite for innovative, up-to-date, inclusive high quality academic continuing education and lifelong learning for and in the global higher education area.