Nov 01, 2021
Project travel to Albania: VALEU-X Mid-term Meeting & Expert Forum II
1.5 years after the kickoff meeting and several virtual events, the project consortium of the Erasmus+ Capacity Building project VALEU-X meets again for the first time in presence. The partners are working together to establish Virtual Mobility as an affordable practice to create an Internationalisation@Home experience. The Virtual Collaborative Learning (VCL) Framework, developed at the Chair of Information Management at TU Dresden by Prof. Dr. Eric Schoop, is the basis for establishing virtual exchange. Together with Mattis Altmann & Maximilian Hubmann, Prof. Schoop traveled to Albania for 8 days, via the capital Tirana to Durres and further…
On the 22th September, the Consortium of the VALEU-X project met at the premises of the Aleksander Moisiu University (UAMD) and had the first on-site event since the Kick-Off- Meeting almost one and half years ago due to the pandemic. The topic of the first day was to present the actual status of each partner and to discuss the topics of the following days. The day after the second Expert Forum of the project was held, at the premises of the Aleksander Moisiu University in Durres during September 23-24, 2021. It was moderated by TU Dresden and was conceptualized as a best practice sharing and free room for discussion, which provided more advanced expertise about Virtual Collaborative Learning, digitalization, and virtual mobility for all stakeholders. The Expert Forum was organized in a hybrid model, on-site for the students, academics, and administrative staff traveling to Durres, and online for all participants from their home countries. In the afternoon of the 24th of September, the Consortium of VALEU-X signed a multilateral Memorandum of Understanding with 7 universities and 1 association of universities to foster interinstitutional relations, and the collaboration and the most important decisions of the project's future were discussed. The MoU signing ceremony was held at Epoka premises with representatives from all the consortium partners of the VALEU-X project respectively. USHK –“Luigj Gurakuqi” University, Shkodra, Albania https://unishk.edu.al/ On Saturday the 25th of September the whole Consortium met at the premises of UAMD to wrap up the events and the project meeting was officially closed. The whole event ended with the Final Expert Forum II at the premises of the University European Tirana (UET) on Monday the 27th of September which reflected on the lessons learned and gave a perspective to the upcoming future events.
The partners:
TU Dresden - WIIM, Chair of Information Management, Dresden, Germany https://tu-dresden.de/bu/wirtschaft/winf/wiim
UNIMED – Mediterranean Universities Union, Rome, Italy https://www.uni-med.net/en/
ISSBS – International School for Social and Business Studies, Celje, Slovenia https://mfdps.si/
AMU – “Aleksander Moisiu” University, Durres, Albania https://www.uamd.edu.al/index.php/en/
UET – European University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania https://uet.edu.al/en/
EPOKA – EPOKA University, Tirana, Albania https://www.epoka.edu.al/home.html
UNIEL – “Aleksander Xhuvani” University, Elbasan, Albania https://www.uniel.edu.al/
UNIKO – “Fan S. Noli” University, Korça, Albania http://www.unkorce.edu.al/
UNISHK –“Luigj Gurakuqi” University, Shkodra, Albania https://unishk.edu.al/
Next steps:
This winter semester, the Albanian partners will first launch a local pilot of Virtual Collaborative Learning courses. The special feature is that each university will transfer the framework to a course of its choice. In addition to Investment Strategy and Introduction to Business Administration, the courses include Image Processing, Business Communication and Teaching Technology. Furthermore Advanced Financial Analysis and Reporting as well as Translation (English language) and Fundamentals of Botany make up the rest of the interdisciplinary selection of test modules.
Together with the VirTUos project, further strands of virtual collaborative learning are to be developed, standardized and improved in the DikoLint sub-project. For example, the creation of case scenarios, e-tutor qualification, feedback indicators and conversational agents.
Web: www.VALEU-X.eu