Many roads lead to excellence and the avenue of internationalization may shorten the path, says Humboldtian and international education researcher Cyntia Sandes Oliveira.

Drawing from her life experiences and her most recent research on internationalization and excellence in research, she outlines practices for internationalization at research level, inviting us to rethink policies for internationalization and, ultimately, to challenge the idea of excellence in higher education.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx