UNIC Fund for Virtual and International Educational Projects

New opportunity for funding!

Starting September 16^th, UNIC offers new funding opportunities for the development of virtual collaborative international educational activities in regular curriculums. Apply until December 16^th for design, coordination and/or implementation support.

The UNIC Fund for Virtual and International educational Projects – UNIC VIP Fund for short – aims to incentivize faculty members of UNIC universities to include virtual collaborative international educational activities (Virtual/Blended Exchanges) into the regular curriculum. The fund provides support to design, coordinate and implement those activities. Both, existing and news courses are eligible for funding.

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Workshops for university teachers

To learn more about innovative mobility formats, we invite you to participate in the UNIC workshops for university teachers on Virtual Exchange and collaboration in an intercultural environment. During the workshops, you will have the opportunity to meet colleagues with whom you can plan and organize virtual collaboration and exchange educational activities. These collaborations can be part of the application for funding through the VIP Fund.

The fund can be used to cover e.g. salaries of students, who assist the activity, like teaching assistants, tutors and student assistants. This is an option we encourage especially to improve students’ participation in UNIC.

• The call is open to all staff members of all ten UNIC universities (part- and full-time professors, educators, lecturers etc.) involved in teaching.
• All faculties of UNIC universities and all topics and disciplines are welcome.
• The call opens on 16^th of September 2024
• Deadline for Submission: 16^th of December 2024 (23:59 local time)

You can find the full call on our UNIC webpage. An application form for Ruhr University’s teachers can be found here. There will be an info session on the application for RUB teachers on Tuesday, 8^th of October 2024, 14:00 – 15:00.

Are you interested in learning more about Virtual Exchange?

On the ZfW UNIC website you can find short instructions for virtual exchange and virtual mobility in German. Even more information is available in the UNIC Handbook on Physical and Virtual Mobility, which is also available on the website.

Our download center for inspired teaching LEHRELADEN also has an article about virtual exchange. Click through to other topics as well.

If you have more questions, contact me!

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