Tag: virtual exchanges

Global Case Study Challenge Virtual Exchange 2025 (Austria)

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2025 Global Case Study Challenge Virtual Exchange, Global Work Competency Laboratory, Klagenfurt, Austria, 13 October – 26 November 2025. Deadline: 1 July 2025. Information session: 9 April 2025.

GCSC Information Session April 9 2025

The Global Case Study Challenge (GCSC) 2025 is a high-impact Virtual Exchange (VE) program focused on Developing Remote Work Competencies through Global Virtual Teamwork. Now in its 8th edition, the GCSC has engaged over 2,200 students and 70 educators from 40 universities across 25 countries in 485 global virtual teams.

Program Overview
* 6-week Virtual Exchange – Runs from October to end of November 2024
* Future of Work Focus – Develop essential remote work competencies in small global virtual teams (GVTs)
* Competency-Oriented – Enhance intercultural communication, digital collaboration, and sustainability skills
* Real-World Business Cases – Work on real business challenges
* Global Virtual Conference – Students present their findings and educators participate in a conference on November 19, 2025

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Global Case Study Challenge Virtual Exchange 2024 (Austria)

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2024 Global Case Study Challenge Virtual Exchange/COIL, Global Work Competency Laboratory, Klagenfurt, Austria, 2 October-28 November 2024. Deadline: 1 July 2024.

 

GCSC 2024The Global Case Study Challenge (GCSC) is an award-winning 8-week teaching and learning program for BA and MA-level students. It’s a high-impact career-oriented virtual exchange focusing on collaborative global virtual teamwork and the development of intercultural, digital communication and sustainability competencies.

2024 is the 7th edition of the multiple award-winning GCSC. To date, 2200 students and 70 educators from 40 universities across 25 different countries have worked together in the GCSC in 485 Global Virtual Teams

Feel free to share with interested colleagues across the globe.

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Global Case Study Challenge Virtual Exchange 2023 (Austria)

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2023 Global Case Study Challenge Virtual Exchange/COIL, Global Work Competency Laboratory, Klagenfurt, Austria, 2 October-29 November 2023. Deadline: 7 July 2023.

2023 GCSC COIL

The Global Case Study Challenge (GCSC) is an award-winning 8-week teaching and learning program for BA and MA-level students. It’s a high-impact career-oriented VE focusing on collaborative global virtual teamwork and the development of intercultural, digital communication and sustainability competencies.

Organizers are excited to be moving into the sixth iteration of the GCSC. To date, 1850 students and 60 educators from 36 universities across 22 different countries have worked together in the GCSC on real-life business cases in 415 Global Virtual Teams.

Feel free to share with interested colleagues across the globe.

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Global Case Study Challenge Virtual Exchange 2023 (Austria)

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Global Case Study Challenge Virtual Learning Nuggets, Global Work Competency Laboratory, Klagenfurt, Austria, April 14, 2023, and April 28, 2023.

APRIL 28, 2023 | 13:00-13:50 CET on Developing Global Leadership Competencies through Virtual Student Exchange
𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞.

The first virtual learning nugget will explore how virtual exchange programs can create sustainable collaboration and promote cultural awareness and understanding. Students gain valuable skills such as communication, collaboration, and problem-solving in global virtual teams, creating meaningful learning experiences and fostering long-lasting relationships. Participating in virtual exchange programs not only provides students with valuable skills and experiences but also offers educators opportunities to develop lasting collaborative connections. Educators can foster long-lasting relationships that can benefit their students and enhance their teaching practices.

APRIL 14, 2023 | 13:00-13:50 CET on Global Conscious and Sustainable Collaboration through Virtual Exchange
𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞.

The second virtual learning nugget will focus on how virtual exchange programs can develop global leadership competencies. By participating in virtual exchange programs, students can gain valuable leadership skills and experiences, preparing them for success in a globalized world.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn from the experienced #GCSC team Dr. Barbara Covarrubias Venegas, Dr. Eithne Knappitsch, and Dr. Anna Zinenko, and gain valuable insights into the world of COIL and #virtualexchange. Save your spot for the free virtual learning nuggets today!

International Virtual Exchanges

Intercultural Pedagogy

D’Agostino, Susan. (2022, August 31). Virtual exchanges promote equity in global learning. Inside Higher Education.

This article describes a virtual exchange project between students in the USA coordinated with students from Iraq on the topic of the United Nations’ sustainability goals. They examined sustainability challenges in their respective communities, working together both synchronously and asynchronously. Then they worked together on solving a single applied problem.

The most common virtual exchange programs focus on intercultural dialogue and peace building; science, technology, engineering and mathematics; and global or international affairs…

Study abroad programs often target students who have adequate financial support to cover the costs, and so are not as often accessible to students who do not. Virtual exchanges bypass that difficulty, while still providing much of the cultural exchange and learning. As study abroad programs were substantially curtailed due to the pandemic, this is also a good way to maintain international connections when travel is limited.

The program supporting this particular example is the Stevens Initiative, “a U.S. government–funded initiative administered by the Aspen Institute that works to expand virtual exchange options to regions of the world where U.S. students have not studied abroad in large numbers, including in the Middle East and North Africa.”

Global Case Study Challenge Virtual Exchange (Austria)

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2022 Global Case Study Challenge Virtual Exchange/COIL, Global Work Competency Laboratory, Klagenfurt, Austria. Deadline: 15 August 2022.

COIL Connect 2

The Global Case Study Challenge (GCSC) is an award-winning 8-week teaching and learning program for BA and MA-level students. It’s a high-impact career-oriented VE focusing on collaborative global virtual teamwork and the development of intercultural, digital communication and sustainability competencies.

Organizers are excited to be moving into the fifth iteration of the GCSC. To date, 1450 students and 50 educators from 30 universities across 20 different countries have worked together in the GCSC on real-life business cases in 380 Global Virtual Teams.

Feel free to share with interested colleagues across the globe.

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Erasmus+ Virtual Exchanges

Applied ICDErasmus+ Virtual Exchange is part of the Erasmus+ programme, providing an accessible, ground-breaking way for young people to engage in intercultural learning.

Working with Youth Organisations and Universities, Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange is open to any young person aged 18-30 residing in Europe and the Southern Mediterranean. Through a range of activities, Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange aims to expand the reach and scope of the Erasmus+ programme through Virtual Exchanges, which are technology-enabled people-to-people dialogues sustained over a period of time.

Specific programs include:

  • Professional development for youth workers and university educators to learn how to develop a Transnational Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange Project (TEP) in order to enrich and expand existing programmes.

  • Advocacy training bringing young people from different backgrounds together to develop parliamentary debate skills with the support of a network of trained debate team leaders, fostering listening and understanding through advocacy training.

  • Interactive Open Online Courses across cultural contexts and national boundaries to learn with peers from diverse backgrounds using bite-sized video lectures, supported by skill building activities and facilitated intercultural discussions.

 

Dorm Room Diplomacy

I just ran across an interesting example of applied intercultural dialogue that may be of particular interest either to students taking, or faculty teaching, courses on intercultural topics:

“Founded by students at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009, Dorm Room Diplomacy fosters intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding among an international group of university students. Dorm Room Diplomacy employs videoconference technology to facilitate virtual exchanges that help students to see the individuals behind reductionist cultural stereotypes.

The videoconference program occurs each academic semester, and the same set of 8 students join in a virtual dialogue with a trained facilitator each week. Dorm Room Diplomacy is entirely student-run, encouraging students to take ownership over the dialogue process, establish campus chapters, and empower themselves and their peers. As a non-partisan organization, Dorm Room Diplomacy does not engage in political activities or advocacy, other than the promotion of intercultural dialogue. “

For more information, and for the source of this quote, go to the website for Dorm Room Diplomacy.