NICE - Intercultural Competence to facilitate Entrepreneurship

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NICE is an Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme open to students of the University of Padua regardless their degree course. The programme envisages two pedagogic activities:

  • NICE Virtual Exchange: 7 educational modules aimed at developing soft skills, namely entrepreneurial, intercultural, and interpersonal skills, ability to cooperate, teamworking skills, and problem-solving approach, in order to promote the students’ professional growth and entry into the labour market. Students will work both on individual basis and in interdisciplinary and multicultural teams to solve a “Global Challenge”, together with colleagues from the other universities involved in the programme.
  • NICE Summer School: optional and complementary activity to be held on 28 June - 5 July at the University of Edinburgh. The aim is to capitalise on the learning outcomes and the ideas developed during the virtual exchange.

  Credit Recognition

Students will gain 3 ECTS credits from the University of Padua for other activities, provided that the activity unit ‘Intercultural Competence to Facilitate Entrepreneurship’ is added to the study plan.

The possibility to have those credits added as a curricular activity is not granted, whereas the possibility to have those credits added as an extra-curricular activity is always possible.

Students are invited to enquire in advance about any restrictions and rules relating for their specific Degree Programme and, in case of doubt, to contact the President of their Programme or their delegate for confirmation.

  Admission Requirements

  • to be regularly enrolled in any degree course at the University of Padua, with the exclusion for students enrolled at the first year of first-level degree course, for incoming/outgoing mobility students, and for students enrolled in double/multiple/joint degree programmes;
  • to prove proficiency in English through a certificate attesting a minimum B2 level (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) or to be enrolled in a degree course delivered in English or to have successfully completed it.

  Useful Information

Timing NICE Online Course: 2 March – 14 June 2026
Timing NICE Summer School: 28 June – 3 July 2026 at the University College Dublin 
Number of available places for UNIPD students: 30 places for the NICE Online Course of which 10 places also for the NICE Summer School

Applications are open until 27 January 2026, 1pm (Italian time)

The programme is part of the Call Global Intensives. Details about the application and selection process are available in the Call.

Projects and Mobility Office

Lungargine del Piovego 1 - 35131 Padova
email: virtual.exchange@unipd.it