Our training team
Rita Koris – Budapest Business University
Rita Koris (PhD) is an associate professor at Budapest Business University, Hungary.
She has been a co-trainer with UNICollaboration for a number of years specialising in helping university educators in their academic development to learn how to develop and implement virtual exchange projects in HEIs.
Rita speaks Hungarian and English.
Ana Beaven - University of Bologna
Ana Beaven teaches English at the University of Bologna Language Centre.
She has been a trainer with UNICollaboration for many years and currently also acts as a Training officer for the organisation.
She speaks English, Italian, French and Spanish
Shannon Sauro - University of Maryland
Shannon Sauro (PhD), is the current President of UNICollaboration and a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (USA) in the program for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).
She speaks English, German and Swedish.
Mirjam Hauck - Open University
Mirjam speaks German, English and French.
Lorenza Bacino - Communications, UNICollaboration
Lorenza Bacino has been part of the UNICollaboration team since the Erasmus Plus Virtual Exchange project funded by the European Commission between 2018 to the end of 2020 and currently acts as the Communications Coordinator.
She speaks English, Italian and French and very bad Dutch!
Sara Pittarello - Managing Director UNICollaboration
Sara Pittarello currently serves UNICollaboration as Managing Director and Project Manager.
She recently contributed to Outreach and Monitoring & Evaluation activities in the framework of Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange (E+VE) for UNICollaboration.
She speaks Italian, English, German and Portuguese.
Francesca Helm - University of Padua
Francesca Helm (PhD) is associate professor of English at the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies at the University of Padova.
She is research officer for UNICollaboration.
Francesca speaks English and Italian
Malgorzata Kurek - Jan Dlugosz University
Malgorzata (Gosia) Kurek, PhD is University Professor at the Institute of Linguistics at Jan Dlugosz University, Czestochowa, Poland.
She currently serves as the Training Coordinator for UNICollaboration.
Gosia speaks English and Polish
Sarah Guth - University of Padua
Sarah Guth is the Vice President of UNICollaboration, and teaches English as a foreign language at the University of Padua (Italy).
She also acts as Training officer for UNICollaboration.
Sarah speaks English and Italian
Teresa Calderón - University of Valladolid
Teresa Calderón Quindós, is Doctor in English Studies and Associate Professor at the University of Valladolid (UVa), Spain.
She undertakes Training in Spanish with our Latin American and Spanish partners.
She speaks Spanish and English
Teresa Mackinnon - Open Educator
Teresa Mckinnon is a former French teacher at the university of Warwick, a current open educator, and award winning language teacher with a wealth of expertise in online delivery and virtual exchange.
She has a special interest in Open Badges and gives talks about this for UNICollaboration’s training courses.
Teresa speaks English and French
Müge Satar - Newcastle University
Dr. Müge Satar is Director for Global at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, UK.
She is a Senior Fellow of the UK’s Higher Education Academy.
She is the second publications officer of UNICollaboration, co-editor of the Journal of Virtual Exchange.
She speaks English and Turkish.
Teresa Calderón - University of Valladolid
Teresa Calderón Quindós, is Doctor in English Studies and Associate Professor at the University of Valladolid (UVa), Spain.
She undertakes Training in Spanish with our Latin American and Spanish partners.
She speaks Spanish and English
Teresa Mackinnon - Open Educator
Teresa Mckinnon is a former French teacher at the university of Warwick, a current open educator, and award winning language teacher with a wealth of expertise in online delivery and virtual exchange.
She has a special interest in Open Badges and gives talks about this for UNICollaboration’s training courses.
Teresa speaks English and French
Müge Satar - Newcastle University
Dr. Müge Satar is Director for Global at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, UK.
She is a Senior Fellow of the UK’s Higher Education Academy.
She is the second publications officer of UNICollaboration, co-editor of the Journal of Virtual Exchange.
She speaks English and Turkish.
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