Julia Loepke is a German student doing a Masters’ in Organisational Psychology at the University of Bochum (Ruhr-Universität Bochum). She recently spent a semester abroad in Italy, and prior to this, undertook a virtual exchange in preparation. The Arqus Alliance Moves project is an initiative for students from all the Read More …
Esmanur Kara is a Turkish participant of Eric Hagley’s International Virtual Exchange Project. She’s a 24-year-old English language teacher graduate, currently undertaking a Masters’ in ELT. She wants to be an academic. Up to now, Esmanur has participated in seven iterations of this project and is very happy to be Read More …
Artur Jolimay-Groener participated in the ‘science without borders’ virtual exchange as a student of biology at the University of Bordeaux. He is currently doing a masters’ degree in microbiology and immunology. Artur participated in André Benine’s VE/COIL with students from the University of Cincinnati in the US. He explains how Read More …
Spanish secondary education teacher Anais Ramos now works in an English Academy but earlier this year she participated in Laura Angelini’s Virtual Exchange entitled “Simulation in the Master of Education in Secondary Teaching” hosted on UNICollaboration’s Moodle platform. Anais says she didn’t really know what to expect, despite Laura’s explanation Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.