You want your work to connect beyond your own institution or country, but 'become internationally recognized' is a difficult task to put on a weekly calendar. It sounds impressive without explaining where to begin.
The handbook describes collaboration, teaching, scholarly exchange, and professional contributions as possible routes. Start with the question or contribution that would make an exchange useful to everyone involved.
Identify the reason for connecting
What could you learn or contribute through a different setting or perspective? A research question may need knowledge you don't have locally. A teaching exchange may reveal assumptions built into a familiar course.
Explain the connection rather than treating the location of a collaborator as the contribution itself.
Learn the context before proposing the work
Read relevant scholarship and listen to potential partners' priorities. Discuss what would be valuable to them, what resources exist, and what constraints affect participation. Avoid arriving with a complete plan that leaves everyone else only an implementation role.
Mutual benefit needs a concrete description.
Start with a manageable exchange
A focused discussion, appropriate seminar, or small shared task can help you assess the fit. Agree on responsibilities, communication, credit, and the next step. Be honest about time and resources.
For a formal project or visit, use the relevant institutional and partner processes before making commitments.
Make the work accessible to its intended readers
Explain local terms and assumptions. Consider language, access, and the audience for outputs. Share only material you may appropriately distribute. A professional profile can help people find your work, but it should lead to an accurate account of the contribution.
Document what actually developed
Distinguish an initial conversation, an invitation, an active project, and a completed output. Explain your role and the substantive result. An event described as international doesn't alone establish the reach or use of your scholarship.
Check how the applicable review criteria ask you to explain recognition, if that is relevant to your appointment.
Choose one question in your work that would benefit from another context. Read relevant contributions from that context and identify a small exchange worth proposing. You'll have a more useful starting point than trying to add a global label to an otherwise unchanged activity.
Adapted from The New Faculty Handbook by Zafer Unal, pp. 179-181.
