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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.