The aim of this article is to identify the main stakeholders of institutions of professional higher education in the field of internal security in selected countries, and the most important collaboration practices, and the factors that affect collaboration. Within the framework of a qualitative phenomenographic study, interviews were conducted with representatives of Estonian, German, Finnish, and Norwegian institutions of professional education in the field of internal security. The results showed that institutions of professional higher education differ from traditional universities in prioritizing their main stakeholders, putting employers first, and not students. In addition, the ministries under whose government they operate, and other higher education institutions were named as the main stakeholders. Collaboration with stakeholders is mostly based on common interests and personal relationships (e.g., mediation, networking, joint reputation building, collaboration councils), on some kind of formal basis (e.g., feedback system, collaboration councils) or subordination (e.g., execution of orders and instructions, trading). The aspects most influencing collaboration were considered to be the aspects related to trust and professionalism, and in particular informal collaboration was valued. The results of this study enabled the author to supplement a framework from a previous study, which originally described the theoretical collaboration of the stakeholders of an institution of higher education in the field of internal security; this was supplemented by adding the dimension of collaboration diversity.

本文的目的是确定选定国家/地区内内部安全领域的专业高等教育机构的主要利益相关者，最重要的协作实践以及影响协作的因素。在定性现象学研究的框架内，对内部安全领域中爱沙尼亚，德国，芬兰和挪威的专业教育机构的代表进行了访谈。结果表明，专业高等教育机构与传统大学的不同之处在于，它们优先考虑主要利益相关者，将雇主放在首位，而不是学生。此外，他们所管理的政府部门以及其他高等教育机构也被指定为主要利益相关者。与利益相关者的合作主要基于共同利益和个人关系（例如，调解，网络，建立联合声誉，合作委员会），某种形式的正式基础（例如，反馈系统，合作委员会）或从属关系（例如，执行订单）和说明，交易）。影响最大的协作方面被认为是与信任和专业精神有关的方面，特别是非正式协作受到重视。这项研究的结果使作者能够补充先前研究的框架，该框架最初描述了内部安全领域中高等教育机构的利益相关者的理论合作；通过增加协作多样性的维度对此进行了补充。