Virtual Exchange Seminar
The Virtual Exchange Seminar cooperation format offers a contemporary response to current challenges in university teaching. Such teaching formats enable students who are unable to study abroad for personal reasons to gain international experience “at home”. Lecturers can use this format to test the use of innovative technologies in collaboration with international partners and possibly establish new collaborations.
The event should be characterized as follows:
- At least two lecturers jointly run the course, one from UniBE and one from a partner university or a university, which might be an interesting partner for potential future collaborations.
- While students can also meet physically on site, the encounter and dialog between Bernese students and students from the partner university takes place online.
- It is a newly designed seminar (not a lecture) including interactive modules that lead to exchange and cooperation between students from both universities.
- Each university awards ECTS points to its students.
- The target group can be bachelor or master students (or both, but not PhDs).
- Students at UniBE can have the course credited to their studies as a regular course.
The next project call will take place in fall 2025.
The following Virtual Exchange seminars take place in 2025:
| Semester | Title | Lecturers | Cooperation partner | KSL-No. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HS2025 | Managing Reforms and Innovation in Public Organizations for Addressing Sustainable Development Goals - Comparing the Botswana and Swiss Context | Dr. Emamdeen Fohim, Prof. Dr. Claus D. Jacobs, Prof. Dorothy Mpabanga, Dr. Bashi Mothusi | University of Botswana | |
| HS2025 | Critical Perspectives on Business and Management | Prof. Dr. Michèle Amacker, Dr. Muneeb Ul Lateef Banday, Dr. Sujatha Subramnian | University of Innsbruck | |
| HS2025 | Seminar in Optical Engineering and Science | Prof. Dr. Jürgen Burger, Prof. Dr. Yanlu Li | University of Ghent | |
| HS2025 | Mental Disorders in the Workplace: Bridging Psychology and Business for Resilience and Leadership | Prof. Dr. Thomas Berger, Dr. Inna Majoor-Kozlinska | University of Groningen |