Konstantinos Petridis is Associate professor and Vice Rector of Internationalisation at the Hellenic Mediterranean University. He is a physicist specialising in laser physics with a PhD from St Andrews University in Scotland. Dr Petridis researches continuous wave laser systems. In particular, how to engineer the physical and mechanical properties of
Twenty-two-year-old Sophie Brazil is studying History and English at the University of Regensburg in Germany and wants to be a teacher of English when she finishes. Currently she is undertaking a virtual exchange with students from Israel and Turkey. They are all trainee teachers and the main goal of this
More from behind the scenes at UC “Our training team has been beavering away behind the scenes working on some new offerings,’ explains UNICollaboration’s Managing Director, Sara Pittarello. “We met over the summer, here in Padua, where we reflected, analysed and discussed what we thought was missing in the field
Preeti Suri is originally from India. She’s currently living and studying in the UK at Coventry University, having recently completed a Masters’ in Applied Linguistics and English language teaching. It was in the UK that Preeti had her first experience of virtual exchange. Preeti is undertaking a PhD now, and
Fabian Krengel, PhD candidate, began his virtual exchange journey at the University of Göttingen in the centre of Germany. He’s undertaking his design-based VE at Regensburg university in Bavaria focusing on using VE to train pre-service English Language teachers on how to perceive English as a global language to encourage
Netherlands-based Louisa Pruschen was a student during the pandemic, when she found participating in a virtual exchange helped her make the best of a tricky situation. “My Erasmus exchange was cancelled’, explains Louisa. “I was supposed to go to the United States but that didn’t happen. I decided to make
Kleiberth Romero Is an 18-year-old software programming student currently living in Colombia. He’s originally from Venezuela. Fiana Annisa Is an English major student from Indonesia. Although geographically divided, they have both been delighted with their recent experience of taking part in the International Virtual Exchange project initiated by Australia-based Eric
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