The BEST+ projects aims to innovate the way university staff members working in international relations develop their competences. To achieve this goal, a cost and time efficient new methodology called blended staff mobility will be piloted through this project, combining traditional physical staff mobility with comprehensive online courses. In this context an online platform is being developed, which serves as community platform for all university staff members working in international relations. BEST+ aims at creating three courses relevant to substantially improve the quality of student mobility, tackling the following topics: Intercultural competences, international attractiveness of universities and international student experience. Additionally, the project will devise guidelines for blended staff mobility, describing in detail the different methodologies that can be used to efficiently run blended staff mobility courses and how to implement them in the online platform. Lastly, the project has the ambition to have a significant impact on EU policies, being part of an important policy shift towards a more digital Higher Education that is globally competitive. Digital professional development and strong international relations are two important pillars to achieve this goal. Concrete policy recommendations will be brought forward to impact the follow up programme of Erasmus+ and to create a mind shift within university leaderships on how they train their staff members.The project will test different methodologies for blended staff mobility through iteratively creating the aforementioned courses. These will be implemented in the online-platform, where the community can further develop the content. This community-driven content ensures that courses will remain up to date as new developments in the field occur over time. It will also engage the community actively, increasing international cooperation between administrative university staff members. Around 100 staff members in international relations will be involved in the piloting phase to continuously develop and refine the project outcomes and to ensure that by the end of the project a comprehensive online-platform with three pilot courses will be available to the community. The development of such new form of professional development for university administrators in international relations will not only boost their everyday motivation and involvement in the international community but also have a positive effect on the quality of work, which impacts hundreds of thousands of international students each year. As a result, the quality of mobility will increase considerably. Having university staff members in international relations experience mobility themselves will make them ambassadors for mobility, which will also increase the likelihood of students to engage in mobility. The project therefore contributes to the achievement of a range of EU priorities, such as 20% of mobile students by 2020 and the implementation of new digital teaching methods.