Teaching innovation for the development of competences for the internationalisation of higher education students in Political Science: experience from Argentina and Spain.

The internationalisation of higher education is a permanent challenge in order to obtain better results in the processes of knowledge generation and training at university level. This challenge also extends to the teaching practices of all degree programmes at this level, through which students are expected to develop competences that will enable them, in the future, to develop their professional careers in a globalised, multidisciplinary and interconnected environment. This approach promotes that, among other strategies, through innovations in teaching practices, territorial borders and social, linguistic and cultural frontiers can be overcome, allowing for more democratic and equitable access to knowledge. It also allows the development of networks for the exchange of experiences, contacts and learning, which can contribute to future professional opportunities. Likewise, greater access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) allows for the possibility of these exchanges and teamwork between students from different countries, an aspect that in the context of the pandemic reached a peak. In this paper, from a methodological triangulation approach (quantitative and qualitative), we share the experience carried out by teachers from the Pontifical University of Comillas, Spain, and the Catholic University of Cordoba, Argentina, within the framework of the training of future political scientists. The proposed objective is to describe and analyse an international teaching practice, through which the collaborative work of students from both universities was promoted and the achievement of a common result, around one of the thematic axes developed in subjects of these degrees. Based on this analysis, potentialities, aspects for improvement and lessons learned from this experience will be analysed.