In 2024, AMU successfully organised four summer schools for Ukrainian partners under the theme "Internationalization and Internationalization at Home through Virtual Exchange: Creating a Motivating Environment for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)." The schools hosted 120 participants from our Ukrainian partner universities, who discussed the principles of COIL activities with our educational staff.
Remarkably, within just a few months, the joint efforts bore fruit, leading to the establishment of the first international joint COIL projects.
The National University of Ostroh Academy, along with AMU, organised a six-week project for students entitled "Risk and Survival." This project empowered students to work in international groups using new digital platforms.
In turn, Ms Anna Kwaśniewska of the AMU Foreign Language Teaching Centre, along with her colleague from CETYS Universidad, Dr Francisco Alberto Núñez Tapia, invited two lecturers from the English Department of Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Dr Tetiana Zubenko and Dr Yulia Sydorenk, to collaborate. A total of 39 students from business from Mexico, information technology from AMU Nadnotecki Institute in Piła and English philology from Ukraine participated in the "Crossing Academic Borders" project with the task of creating a video depicting the cultural richness of their country.
We are delighted to see the friendships and partnerships established during the organised summer schools bringing the first results.
The summer schools were organised within the project ‘BNI-UE-2023-23: Cooperation between Adam Mickiewicz University and Ukrainian universities in the context of the European Universities Alliance’, funded by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange.
Source & phot: Kostiantyn Mazur, PhD
