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The fund aims to support virtual international educational activities across UNIC university partners. Initiatives may bring individuals together for a first-time collaboration and new activity, or they may consolidate, deepen or transfer an existing engagement; both categories are eligible.
All activities should be inclusive for all learners of the respective courses, e.g. provide accessible documents for visually impaired students, if necessary, or use tools that are accessible for all students and do not require special individual resources, respect care obligations by not having the course after childcare times, etc.
• Format: Virtual international educational activities (Examples: Virtual exchanges; Blended exchanges with a predominant share of virtual teaching, Virtual collaboration on challenge-based learning).
• At least two UNIC university teachers from two different universities design the learning activity collaboratively.
• Students of all participating partner teachers are involved in collaborative virtual international learning activities.
• ECTS recognition for the activities through each participating university.
• Intended integration of the activities in the formal curricula of the participating universities.
• Dissemination/visibility activities are included in the general activity plan.
The call is open to all staff members of nine UNIC universities (part- and full-time professors, educators, lecturers etc.) involved in teaching. All faculties, topics and disciplines are welcome. Please note that while the University of Oulu has successfully utilized its budget in the first round and will not officially participate in the upcoming call for funding opportunities, its staff members can still collaborate as partners in the activities without funding opportunities.
For full call guidelines, criteria and details, please download the call as a PDF below:
Download Call Details (PDF, 76KB)
As these are innovative and ambitious methods, we invite you to participate in the UNIC InterTeach workshops for university teachers on, among other topics, 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, which you can then apply for funding through the VIP Fund.
To familiarize yourself with the forms and concepts of innovative teaching activities such as virtual mobility and Virtual Exchange and collaboration, we refer you to the Centre for Teaching and Learning's handbooks, which can be downloaded for free. Of interest, also, is the UNIC Handbook on Physical and Virtual Mobility. An inspiring example of a virtual exchange project, realized partly through UNIC, is embedded below.
