The aim of this databank is to bring together in one location a series of exchange scenarios that have already been implemented in a wide range of contexts. We hope that these projects will provide ideas and inspiration for new and innovative methods of developing online intercultural exchanges.
Languages that can be used | Title | Description | Main focus | Language configuration | Partner institution name | Date |
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French | eTandem chinois-français (Chinese-French eTandem) | This eTandem Chinese-French course was designed and implemented by Claudia BERGER and Jue WANG-SZILAS. It involves second-year A2-B1Chinese major students from the | Language Learning | Bilingual | Universite de Geneve | 27/02/2013 11:06 PM |
English | The Clavier Project | This large OIE began as a pilot in 2011 as a result of the two lead tutors chance meeting through an e-learning blog. The concept of a virtual exchange was elaborated and approximately 300 students |
Language Learning | Any | Clermont Univeristy | 13/10/2012 09:34 AM |
English | Student Life in Montpellier blog | To raise intercultural awareness among students on the international human resources management programme I asked students to create a blog to discuss key questions and exchange opinions. They |
Intercultural Exchange | Monolingual | Any | 23/04/2013 01:22 PM |
English | Pre-mobility eTandem | This eTandem project was set up between students in the US two months before they left for a mobility program to Padova in Italy and university students in Padova who had signed up for an eTandem p |
Pre-mobility | Bilingual | University of Padova | 29/05/2012 07:59 PM |
English | A Spanish-Mauritian cultural exchange | This project commenced at the beginning of March between fifteen universitystudentsstudying English inmy school and eighteen participants from the Faculty of Computer Science at |
Intercultural Exchange | Any | Any | 25/05/2013 11:13 AM |
English | NABOOMBOO | Naboomboo is an innovative multimedia platform for language exchange, it is a virtual place where you can train and improve your foreign languages skills sharing and discussing about your interests |
Language Learning | Monolingual | Any | 26/11/2014 01:40 PM |
Arabic | www.linguaelive.ca helps any teacher connect their students for peer tandems | Through www.linguaelive.ca all teachers can connect their students to practice each other s languages. This free web tool for instructors by instructors helps students make connections abroad. Currren | Language Learning | Plurilingual | Any | 04/11/2014 09:20 AM |
Portuguese | Teletandem Brasil: Foreign languages for all | I help you learn my language and you help me learn yours! Language learning in tandem involves pairs of native or non-nativespeakers of different languages working collaboratively to lea |
Intercultural Exchange | Bilingual | UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista | 04/03/2013 12:45 PM |
English | e-Tándem Español-Inglés | Este proyecto se llevó a cabo entre estudiantes de la Universidad de Edimburgo en el Reino Unido y la Universidad de Caldas en Colombia y duró 14 semanas, Su propósito principal fue promover el des |
Language Learning | Bilingual | www.ucaldas.edu.co | 04/04/2013 03:47 AM |
Any | Languagetwin | LanguageTwin is an educational video chat platform that allows foreign language students to converse one-on-one with native speakers who are also learning a foreign language, while providing educat |
Language Learning | Bilingual | University of Leon | 11/05/2012 09:01 AM |
English | Transatlantic Translations | The Trans-Atlantic project is a loose network of European universities in Finland, Italy, France, Denmark and Belgium working with two universities in the USA. It is a ' grassroots network' |
Translation | Monolingual | University of Padova | 18/01/2013 04:44 PM |
English | Padova-Innsbruck2011 | This exchange involved students majoring in Mediazione Linguistica e Culturale at the University of Padova (Italy) and first- and second year students attending a course in Cult |
Intercultural Exchange | Lingua franca | University of Padova | 28/01/2013 11:26 AM |
English | Combining Physical & Virtual Mobility | This was a telecollaborative exchange which took place from 2005 to 2011 between the University of León, Spain and Barnard College, New York. The project combined stages of online intercultural exc |
Intercultural Exchange | Bilingual | University of Leon | 30/01/2013 11:52 AM |
English | Global Syndicates | This project was not designed for foreign language learning, it was part of an interdisciplinary seminar on Globalization involving graduate students at two universities in the United States and tw |
Content Learning | Monolingual | Any | 06/02/2013 05:09 PM |
English | Human Rights in Italy and Guatemala | This short project was intended for students of Human Rights in Italy and in Guatemala to share knowledge about human rights issues in their countries, to develop their English language |
Content Learning | Lingua franca | Any | 30/01/2013 04:05 PM |
English | Padova-Innsbruck2011 | Questo scambio ha coinvolto studenti dall' Università di Padova (terzo anno del corso di Laurea in Mediazione Linguistica e Culturale) e studenti dall' Università di Innbsbruck ( |
Intercultural Exchange | Lingua franca | University of Padova | 22/02/2013 09:23 AM |
English | The Intercultural Poetry Exchange | The intercultural poetry exchange' started and was designed as part of two university literature courses, Fiction for Engineers in Sweden and World Literature in the US. The exchange came about du |
Intercultural Exchange | Any | Any | 01/02/2013 03:24 PM |
English | Teacher Trainees in intercultural exchange | This exchange involved future Primary-School teachers at the University of León, Spain (B1 level in English) working with students of Spanish in Missouri, USA (B1 level of Spanish). The exchange wa |
Teacher Training | Bilingual | University of Leon | 25/04/2012 11:49 AM |
English | V-PAL | The V-PAL (Virtual Partnerships for All Languages) has been running for the past four years at the University of Manchester in the UK and engages students of Italian in online oral inte |
Language Learning | Bilingual | Any | 30/01/2013 02:49 PM |
English | Job application at Sussex & León universities | This project was designed with the aim of supporting students' employability. There was a total of 39 students divided into6 groups of 4/5 students each at Sussex an |
Language Learning | Bilingual | SCLS University of Sussex | 06/11/2013 02:53 PM |
Spanish | RUG-UB Telecollaboration Project | The RUG-UB Telecollaboration project was set up for 2nd year students of Spanish from the Department of European Languages and Cultures (ETC), University of Groningen (RUG), and students from the M |
Learning and Teaching Spanish as L2 | Any | University of Groningen | 29/08/2014 12:06 AM |
French | Franco-Irish Exchange | This is an exchange between 4th year undergraduate students of Business and French at the University of Limerick in Ireland, and French native speakers | Intercultural Exchange | Monolingual | Any | 06/02/2013 02:39 PM |
English | SpEakWise | SpEakWise is a blending learning project in intercultural communication which has been running since 2007 between Trinity College Dublin and partner institutions in German-speaking countries. We ar |
Intercultural Exchange | Any | Trinity College Dublin | 25/10/2012 06:33 AM |
English | Perspectives on the Euro(pean) crisis | This multilateral telecollaboration project which started piloting in October 2013 involves 8 European universities, and has been set up and is being run by the Sharing Perspectives Foundation, a y |
Intercultural Exchange | Lingua franca | University of Padova | 18/01/2014 09:54 PM |
French | Le français en première ligne | This exchange involves future teachers of French who are completing a Masters Degree in Foreign Language Education (" Master français langue étrangère" ) and students in Latvia who are st |
Teacher Training | Monolingual | Any | 27/06/2012 01:44 PM |
English | Soliya Connect Program | The objectives of the Soliya Connect Program telecollaboration project are for participants to develop a deeper understanding of the perspectives of others around the world on important socio-polit |
Intercultural Exchange | Lingua franca | University of Padova | 08/05/2012 04:31 PM |
French | Le Français en (première) ligne | L' échange ici décrit implique des futurs enseignants de français en seconde année de Master de Français Langue Etrangère (FLE) à Grenoble et des étudiants lettons (ou chypriotes) qui étudient l |
Teacher Training | Monolingual | Any | 27/06/2012 01:44 PM |
Languages that can be used | Language configuration | Partner institution name | Date |