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.
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.
Dr Steven Pane is a pianist and conductor. For the past 30 years he has been teaching interdisciplinary study and music at Maine Farmington in the US. “We’re a small college, and it’s been quite a ride”, he says. He talks about his recent international virtual exchange collaboration with two
Ivonne Dekker is a senior lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She’s been here for 12 years now and teaches Media and Communication courses with a special interest in Media Psychology, news framing, and media and culture, which she loves. She’s involved in graduate assignments,
Dr Abdoulaye Ndiaye is Assistant Professor in American studies at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal, and Chair of the Senegalese American Studies Association. Professor Nicole Coffey Kellet is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Maine, Farmington in the US. She teaches courses on gender, medical anthropology, health,
How Polish and US students came together to discuss issues of racism and disability in a Virtual Exchange Collaboration Dr Sabina Nowak is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of the National Education Commission in Krakow, Poland. She holds a Ph.D. in English (from the Jagiellonian University, Poland) and
Dr Claire O’Reilly teaches German at the University of Cork in Ireland. She’s been in the German Department since 2005 and teaches a range of subjects. They include: intercultural communication, German/Irish history and relations and of course, virtual exchange. She’s also involved in a bachelor of International Business and German
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