The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak already in the first months of 2020 has dramatically affected the situation in higher education in various aspects, including the transition from face-to-face teaching to online technologies, the cancellation of activities and the development of activities aimed at «next normal» in a university management. The revision of management decisions in the sphere of academic mobility means an opportunity for various university management stakeholders to rethink and even modernize project activities according to effective plans of risk management in order to make international cooperation more sustainable and effective in the future. The purpose of this work is to examine the international landscape of the transformation of international student mobility, which has changed significantly during the 2020-2021 academic year shift as a result of the spread of the coronavirus infection.
Keywords: COVID-19; higher education; student academic mobility; university management.