Dear VE enthusiasts, colleagues and friends, We are happy to announce that the Call for Applications to host the next UNICollaboration Conference in 2026 is now open. This is thanks to the great interest in the joint VALIANT/UNICollaboration Conference held at the University of Leon, Spain in February of 2024. Read More …
Author: Lorenza Bacino
How to create a successful scientific/language Virtual Exchange collaboration
André Benine is a Researcher and Associate Professor at the University of Bordeaux in the Engineering department. He has been conducting a successful scientific virtual exchange collaboration together with Alexandra Reynolds from the Language department and the University of Cincinnati in the US. It’s a blended mobility programme, which says Read More …
Internal recognition for Virtual Exchange
Professor Alessandra Tognazzo is a researcher in the department of Economics and Management at the University of Padova in Italy (UNIPD). She teaches, among other courses, a family business course. With its integrated VE component, it has recently been awarded the UNIPD 2024 Arqus award (https://www.unipd.it/en/arqus) for its innovative student-centred Read More …
Finding the perfect VE partner is halfway to success
Rut Muñiz Rut Muñiz is a Senior Lecturer at the Catholic University of Valencia, in Spain. She undertook Basic and Advanced VE training with UNICollaboration five years ago. She is very invested in this pedagogical approach to learning and in particular, intercultural communication. Dorsaf Ben Malek Dorsaf Ben Malek is Read More …
Breaking barriers through Virtual Exchange
Translation of literary texts and online collaboration The latest research article from the Journal of Virtual Exchange Abstract Literary translation usually brings linguistic, textual, cultural, and pragmatic problems into perspective. As a knowledge-transfer process, it also demands a set of skills as the translator intends to convey, to some extent, Read More …
Coloniality in Virtual Exchange – Voices from South Africa
UNICollaboration Research Webinar Thursday July 11th 14h-15h CEST online UNICollaboration is hosting its final research webinar in the series on Identifying and Interrogating Coloniality in Virtual Exchange. This 3rd webinar will address the issue of coloniality in the context of South Africa and implications it has on education and virtual Read More …
Identify, Interrogate and Interrupt – how to begin addressing the issue of Coloniality in Virtual Exchange
Professor Kyria Finardi
Is senior lecturer, associate professor and researcher in the Department of Languages, Culture and Education (DLCE) at the Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES) Brazil. She has been involved in Internationalisation and is a member of the Internationalisation Board at UFES.
When virtual exchange gets bigger and bigger!
Rut Muñiz is professor of English for Specific Purposes at the Catholic University in Valencia, Spain, where she has been teaching for the past 21 years. Currently, she is very invested in her virtual exchange work that she undertakes with Maria Laura. Maria Laura Angelini teaches at the same institution. Read More …
Promotional Codes for COIL Connect
UNICollaboration in partnership with COIL Connect Should your Institution be interested in joining COIL Connect, as a member, please email UNICollaboration on info@unicollaboration.org to benefit from promotional codes we will gladly share with you. Looking forward to assisting you in joining us and joining COIL Connect.
5th Edition of COIL through Simulation in the Master of Secondary Teacher Education
Colleagues M. Laura Angelini and Rut Muñiz (Master in Teacher Training, specialising in English, Universidad Católica de Valencia ‘San Vicente Mártir’) are delighted to announce the successful completion of the 5th Edition of their virtual exchange collaboration using Simulation in the Master of Secondary Teacher Education from 12-24 April, 2024. Read More …