Virtual Exchange

Virtual Exchange is an accessible, groundbreaking international experience, which leverages on new technologies and a common lingua franca, and does not entail physical mobility.

Organised jointly between at least two international universities, Virtual Exchange is a training activity consisting of little traditional/lecture-based teaching so to encourage a student-centred and leaner-led collaborative experience aimed at developing a common project and/or discussing interdisciplinary topics with a challenged-based approach.

The groups of students coming from different institutions meet remotely on collaborative platforms either autonomously or with a facilitator, who encourages active participation of group members and helps create a positive and collaborative debate.

Virtual Exchange therefore differs from virtual mobility, which consists of synchronous or asynchronous lectures delivered remotely by the teachers of the host university, which also gives students ECTS credits upon completion of the course.

  Integration into the educational offer

  • Integration of VE into an existing course unit, as a teaching module. For this purpose, lecturers can replace part of the content in their syllabus with the Virtual Exchange activity.
  • VE offered as a separate credit-bearing course unit
  • VE offered as an internship
  • VE offered as an extracurricular activity

  Open Badge Virtual Exchange

Active projects

  NICE - Intercultural competence to facilitate entrepreneurship

  CliVEx - Climate Justice: From Inequality to Inclusion

  English for Chemistry

  • Contact person: Prof. Laura Orian (Department of Chemical Sciences)
  • Partners: University of Padua, University of Bordeaux (France), Justus-Liebig University Giessen (Germany)

  Exhibit the Family Business

  • Contact person: Prof. Alessandra Tognazzo (DSEA)
  • Partners: University of Padua, Trier University of Applied Sciences (Germany)

  Wealthy = Healthy. The equation of food quality?

  • Contact person: Prof. Valeria Paganizza (TeSAF)
  • Partners: University of Padua, Monash University (Australia)

  Culturally Responsive Collaborative Care: An Innovative, Multi-disciplinary and Multicultural Learning Experience

  • Contact person: Prof. Alberto Camuccio (DiMed)
  • Partners: University of Padua, Monash University (Australia)

  Submit your Multimedia

  • Contact person: Prof. Lucia Regolin (DPG)
  • Partners: University of Padua, Queen Mary University of London (UK)

  Shaping sustainable urban landscapes through picturebooks. The Child in the City

  • Contact person: Prof. Marnie Campagnaro (FISPPA)
  • Partners: University of Padua, Gdansk University (Poland), University of Orléans (France)

  Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programmes

  Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange

Useful resources

Projects and Mobility Office

International Relations Division

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