12-01, 15:30–16:30 (Europe/Berlin), Workshop 1 (Turing), BBAW
SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences and University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt will provide an insight into how their collaboration at a national level has influenced the conception and development of their virtual international collaboration projects (IVAC). You will learn about positive outcomes and challenges, and will engage in a speed dating activity with the aim of setting the grounds for your own peer-to-peer network.
The focus of the workshop is to highlight the importance of peer-to-peer exchange of ideas and challenges that arise during the life cycle of a project. We will design the workshop around the experiences of the IVAC project coordinators at SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences (SRH Berlin) and the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (FHWS), who have been part of a small national network group since 2020.
We will show how this national collaboration has influenced the introduction of new digital tools and methods in the respective international collaborative projects and how the project coordinators have benefited from the mutual exchange when facing unexpected developments within the projects. This will be done through the presentation of practical examples from each IVAC project reflecting both positive outcomes and challenges discussed in the network.
After this input phase, the audience will engage in a speed dating activity with the aim of finding compatible peers to potentially kick-off a small national or international network.
The learning outcomes that will be summarized at the end of the session will focus on:
- The importance of creating a community of practice and how this may be structured.
- Digital tools that have great potential for virtual collaboration and exchange on an international level (digital badges).
- Main challenges in the development of virtual exchange.
Collaborative methods and tools during the workshop:
- Speed dating (activity)
Lisa Gibellino is based in the Global Cooperation Institute at SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences since 2019, where she works as an International Programmes Coordinator. The primary focus of this position is managing new and old partnerships for study abroad and exchange programmes with other higher education institutions. Being constantly in contact with partner universities around the globe fostered the development of further collaborative projects, like Virtual Exchange. This built the basis for Digital Exchange: die barrierefreie Auslandserfahrung, the first IVAC Project which Ms. Gibellino developed and led in 2020-21, followed by a second year of funding in 2021-22 for IVAC 2.0: Der Schlüssel zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung von Employability Skills. Both IVAC projects aimed to further develop students´ intercultural competences in an inclusive and accessible-to-all format, as well as to increase the internationalisation of SRH Berlin through digitalisation.
Franziska Königer is a Project Manager in the Department of Computer Science and Business Information Systems at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt. Her work focuses on leading projects that strengthen the faculty's international activities and contribute to the internationalization of the university. Since 2020, she has been in charge of the cooperative mobility project FHWS Praxis International, which serves to develop strategies for the internationalization of business contacts and internships. The project was part of the DAAD funding line HAW.International (Modul A). In 2021, she started planning and coordinating the project Mobility Goes Virtual, a virtual collaboration project focusing on the implementation of a sustainable intercampus blended-learning module to be offered at three universities. The project is funded by the DAAD in the program line IVAC. Moreover, she assists in the elaboration of the application process as well as in the student support of the international Master's program in Artificial Intelligence.