UNIC VIP Fund - 16 funded joint teaching activities

The UNIC Fund for Virtual and International educational projects was created to support virtual international educational activities across UNIC university partners and incentivize faculty members at UNIC universities to include virtual collaborative international educational activities such as Virtual Exchanges into the regular curriculum. 

Following collaborative activities – both Virtual and Blended exchanges - were approved under the first call round published in 2024 – congratulations to all winners!   

"Sustainability and Business Law" - Femi Amao, School of Law, University College Cork and Cem Veziroğlu, Faculty of Law, Koç University 

"Introductory Course to Bioinformatics and Data Analysis: Tools and Applications” - Juan Galarza, Faculty of Science, University of Oulu and İsmail Kudret Sağlam, Faculty of Sciences, Koç University

"Intercultural perspective on sustainability in management accounting" - Martina Dragija Kostić, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb and Oliver Browne and Michelle Carr, Cork University Business School, University College Cork 

"Virtual Challenge-Based Learning for Rural Communities" - Nives Mikelić Preradović, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb and Mary O’Shaughnessy, Food Business & Development, University College Cork 

"Intercultural Teaching and Learning" - Anna Santucci and James Cronin, Centre for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, University College Cork and Marie Leijon and Frederik Portin, Centre for Teaching and Learning, Malmö University 

"Post-literary landscapes and cross-cultural dialogues" - Asier Altuna, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, University of Deusto and Elisa Serra Porteiro, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University College Cork 

"Women and Sport Tourism: Emerging trends, challenges, and opportunities" - Armida de la Garza, College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Science, University College Cork and Giuseppe Aliperti, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, University of Deusto 

"Planet Rap: Global Hip Hop and Postcolonial Perspectives" - J. Griffith Rollefson, Department of Music, University College Cork and Jelena Beocanin, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam 

"Industrial Wastewater Treatment" - Tiina Leiviskä, Faculty of Technology, University of Oulu and Maria Polyakova, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Ruhr University Bochum  

"Enhancing education with virtual laboratory exercises" - Juraj Petrović, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb and Christian Schuss, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu 

"Virtual Agile: Using Interactive Multimedia Environments to Teach Agile methods and Scrum Effectively" - Zlatko Stapić, Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb; Nirnaya Tripathi, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu and Zahra Ghaffari Holmgren, Faculty of Technology and Society, Malmö University 

“Moomins as cultural phenomenon: philosophy and multimedia storytelling” - Pirjo Suvilehto, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Oulu, and Jarosław Płuciennik, Faculty of Philology, University of Lodz  

"Web Application Development" - Matija Novak, Dragutin Kermek, Matija Kaniški, Marija Maček, Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb and Wojciech Horzelski, Mariusz Jarocki, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Lodz 

"Imprisoned in the gel" - Jana Pisk and Ivica Đilović, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry, University of Zagreb and Béla Fiser and Piotr Seliger, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Lodz 

"Human Rights in the Digital Era" - Siniša Zrinščak, Iris Goldner Lang, Snježana Vasiljević, Dario Čepo, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb and Joanna Kulesza, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Lodz 

“Cinema and Human Rights: Migrations and Marginalisations” - Clíona Maher & Céire Broderick, International Office/Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies, University College Cork, and Gustavo de la Orden Bosch, Institute of Human Rights, University of Deusto 

The second VIP Fund call is open! More Information - > UNIC VIP Fund