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A bilingual English-French Virtual Exchange

Anna Loftus is a third year student in the BA Arts English/French at the University of Limerick in Ireland. She undertook her bilingual virtual exchange in the first semester in her second year between her university and the Université Paris-Saclay. It began in September and ran for the whole semester,

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The Arqus Alliance virtual exchange programme

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

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Impact of the International Virtual Exchange Project

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

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A “Simulation-based Virtual Exchange”, the power of role play

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

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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

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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

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