During 2020 the International Programme for Politics and Economy (IPPE) went through the formal process of WIL-certification at University West. This presentation discusses the challenges that IPPE met as a ‘traditional’ academic program and how criteria as well as content were developed in the process. During the course of this work, both understandings and possibilities of applications of WIL where further expanded and put in new perspectives, not least through discussing and pointing out the relation between theory-practice dimension(s) and the course content of the programme. In this presentation I will also discuss how the lessons from the certification process can be used in our international collaborations and how international understandings and applications of WIL can be related to the criteria of the certification as well as how further WIL research can be developed from it.