Stories from Poland Anna Turula teaches at the School of English at the University of Wroclaw in Poland and we are welcoming her back for her second interview for our Blog! She previously worked at the Pedagogical University in Krakow. Despite changing institutions, Anna remains a committed virtual exchange enthusiast. Read More …
Here is a free professional development opportunity run by UNICollaboration.org in late January/early February 2026. It’s for colleagues already working or seeking to work with VE/COIL partners at UK universities. Or colleagues based at UK universities both with or without experience in VE/COIL (academics/faculty and internationalisation administrators). The overall context is an “Open Societal Challenge” Read More …
Eveke de Louw and Jos Beelen are from The Hague University of Applied Sciences, THUAS. Eveke works at the Centre of Expertise, Global and Inclusive Learning, where she conducts research into internationalisation at home. More specifically – internationalisation according to academic disciplines. She also researches the role of educational developers. Read More …
Suzi Cavalari is a teacher of English as a foreign language at São Paulo State University (campus São José do Rio Preto), Brazil and Marco Cappellini is a professor of linguistics education at the University of Lyon 1 and ICAR laboratory in France. They’ve been effectively combining research from Read More …
Rawan Tahboub is a PhD student at the Friedrich Schiller university in Jena, Germany. She’s currently working on using virtual exchange as a mechanism for reconciliation, using the inter-Palestinian conflict as her case study. “The idea came from the potential of youth to actually take an active role in reconciliation Read More …
Harriet Nabushawo is a senior lecturer at Makerere University in Uganda. She works in the Department of Open and Distance Learning as well as acting as institutional coordinator for the CVEinAI project. VE from a Ugandan perspective “We are truly enthusiastic about this project, as it brings together a diverse Read More …
Tony Liddicoat is a professor in applied linguistics at the University of Warwick working on issues around intercultural language teaching and learning for longer than he cares to remember. Tony will be a keynote speaker at the UNICollaboration conference next June in Limassol, Cyprus. He’s Australian born and bred and Read More …
Laia Canals is an Associate Professor and course coordinator at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. She works within the Centre for Modern Languages and at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. As such, she says it’s a great context from which to work on international exchanges. Laia began looking at Read More …
Dr Mildred Ayere is a lecturer in the School of Education within the Department of Educational Technology and Curriculum Studies at Maseno University in Kenya. She also doubles up as the director of the eCampus at the university. When asked why her institution was keen to become involved in the Read More …
Virtual Exchange Medium – a Centro Paula Souza publication Patricia Patrício is a journalist and professor of Endomarketing and Internal Communication at Fatec Ipiranga, Centro Paula Souza, São Paulo, Brazil. She has been working with our colleague Osvaldo Succi and the Virtual Exchange Team at Centro Paula Souza since 2020. Read More …