Uniser Teacher Week 2023
PROGRAMME
Uniser Teacher Week is a three-days training course about Internationalisation in education, conceived by Uniser.
Its methodology is based on the active involvement of participants that will enable peer learning and capacity building.
Find out more about the learning outcomes.
On 9th May the official spinoff of the event will take place: The school beyond borders will focus on how to achieve a purposeful integration of international and intercultural dimensions into the formal and informal curriculum of all students. Registrations are open until full capacity is reached.
Uniser Teacher Week 2023
PROGRAMME
Uniser Teacher Week is a three-days training course about Internationalisation in education, conceived by Uniser.
Its methodology is based on the active involvement of participants that will enable peer learning and capacity building.
Find out more about the learning outcomes.
On 9th May the official spinoff of the event will take place: The school beyond borders will focus on how to achieve a purposeful integration of international and intercultural dimensions into the formal and informal curriculum of all students. Registrations are open until full capacity is reached.
DAY 1
Wednesday, 10th May
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Workshop 1. – Designing with Purpose: An Introduction to Application Design for KA1
(Red room – Aula bioinformatica)
By Savino di Noia and Sofia Tarbaoui (Uniser)
The workshop is a team-based activity where participants brainstorm questions about project design to create a plan for a Erasmus + KA1 mobility activity at their school. Discussion will consider factors such as human resources, school needs, target group, and relevant factors related to participation in the project. -
Workshop 2. – Empowerment of my international involvement
(Blue room – Aula didattica)
By Dorota Pawelska and Karolina Ganowska (Uniser)
The workshop is based on collaborative activity helping participants to focus on the main objectives of internationalisation, including benefits, and challenges, followed by action planning in small groups to develop a rough outline of an internationalisation strategy, considering target group, goals potential partners and actions to be taken in the next few years. -
Workshop 3. – Sharing Success: a Workshop for Experienced Participants on Showcasing Strong Points in Mobility
(Grey room – Plenary, Auditorium)
By Luca Lombardi (Uniser), Swenja Piepel (Bezirksregierung Köln), Mirsada Mehremic (International University of Sarajevo)
Navigating challenges and leveraging strengths in mobility: a team-based workshop for hosting and sending schools.
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- Session 1. – Moving toward Erasmus without Papers
(Red room – Aula bioinformatica)
By Michelangelo Pasini, Nicola Grazzi and Marta Rybka (Uniser)
Workshop to explore Moving Generation, Uniser’s web platform for KA1 project management developed to facilitate the administrative aspects of EU projects and facilitate the matchmaking between sending and hosting organisations.
- Session 2. – Trends Shaping Education in our times
(Blue room – Aula didattica)
By Marc Fuster Rabella (OECD)
What are the trends about the future of education? This workshop will present the results of the analysis made by OECD and push people’s imagination by making them reflect on the complexities of systemic change.
- Session 3. – Nuffic workshop on internationalisation for beginners
(Purple room – Aula viola)
By Danielle Scholtes and Ella Put (Nuffic)
This workshop by Nuffic (NL) will focus on how to get started with internationalisation and how to design strategies for including in the curricula the development of international competences for all students. In this workshop Nuffic will offer VET professionals learning methods as well as an accessible toolset that are both easy to use and implement in course curricula. The workshop will also provide participants with the opportunity to learn from one another by sharing new ideas and best (or worst) practices.
- Session 4. – Microcredentials in transnational learning mobility
(Grey room – Plenary, Auditorium)
By Stefano Tirati (Learning Digital)
Microcredentials are gaining momentum in Europe due to their focus on defining learning outcomes and certifying key competencies acquired by learners during mobility experiences. This workshop by Learningdigital (IT) analyses what they are and how they work with a practical approach
- Workshop 1. – Design your sustainable city: go digital and be creative
(Blue room – Aula didattica)
A challenge-based workshop during which participants will cooperate together to design a virtual sustainable city.
- Workshop 2. – Food in Lab between science and society
(Orange room – Laboratorio scientifico)
The workshop will include some scientific experiments that allow us to start reflections on major science and society issues such as: food safety, food counterfeiting, food awareness, the value and credibility or otherwise of scientific knowledge.
- Workshop 3. – Doing Science Lab and learning science in Virtual Reality
(Yellow room – Terrazza)
Wearing an Oculus Quest 2, this workshop will let you enter in Golinelli LIVE Experience, the digital twin of Fondazione Golinelli biotech labs, to experiment with research activities like real life - Workshop 4. – Make your choice: smart simulation game
(Purple room – Aula viola)
Role-playing game aiming to make participants reflect on the difficulty of making choices regarding complex scenarios.
Visit to the Art and Science pavilion of Opificio Golinelli hosting the exhibition on the Bolognese naturalist “Ulisse Aldrovandi”. The exhibition curated by Fondazione Golinelli and University of Bologna Museum System showcases original materials materials from the collection of the naturalist, immersive and interactive exhibits and works by contemporary artists, paintings and sculptures and objects from the European Space Agency, expressing a unified vision of culture and an alliance between art and science, which is presented through a journey between the past and futuristic scenarios. The visit is 45 minutes long and it will be organised in two rounds, at 18.15 and 19.00.
DAY 2
Thursday, 11th May
- Cometa Formazione (🇮🇹)
Alessandro Mele – CEO - Ensinus Group (🇵🇹)
Teresa Damásio – CEO
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Workshop 1. – From Idea to App: Workshop for KA2 Application Design
(Red room – Aula bioinformatica)
By Dorota Pawelska and Savino Di Noia (Uniser)
KA2 Project Strategy Workshop: Hands-on Development of Project Ideas, with Budgeting and Presentation. Session underlines: objectives, goals, allowed activities, funding rules, and application process. -
Workshop 2. – Power of Partnership: a Workshop for Advanced Participants on Building Stronger Strategic Projects
(Blue room – Aula didattica)
By Sara Ciet (Uniser) and Francesca Drago (Scuola Centrale Formazione)
KA2 Project Role and Task Assignment Workshop: during the session participants will reflect on the different roles in a KA2 project including Applicant, Quality Management, Dissemination, Regular Partner, and Stakeholder as well as work together to build partnerships based on task coherence. -
Workshop 3. – Challenge Conquered: a Workshop for Advanced Participants on Overcoming Difficulties in Partnership Projects
(Grey room – Plenary, Auditorium)
By Luca Lombardi (Uniser) and Justina Pluktaite (Upper Secondary School of Chemistry Pardubice)
KA2 Management & Budget Strategy Workshop – Sharing Challenges & Strengths in Project Design. Participants will share their challenges and strengths related to project design aimed to work out the strategy which allows to manage the project in the most effective and efficient manner.
- Session 1. – Being a Host – toward the full internationalisation of VET centres and schools
(Red room – Aula bioinformatica)
By Mirsada Mehremic (International University of Sarajevo) and Viktorija Cesuiko (Uniser)
During the session participants will focus on the following questions:
What are the benefits of hosting foreign students?
What does professional hosting mean?
How to design a Hosting Service?
How does it work?
- Session 2. – Nuffic workshop on the International Skillset
(Blue room – Aula didattica)
By Danielle Scholtes and Ella Put (Nuffic)
There are many benefits to an international experience for both VET students as well as VET professionals. But how do you recognise this unique skillset as a teacher and benefit from it as a student in both your studies and future career, for example, when applying for a job? In this workshop by Nuffic (NL) we will teach educational professionals how to make the most out of their student’s international skillset for both their own and the students professional gain, even long after the experience abroad is over.
- Session 3. – TT Internationalisation – coaches and athletes
(Purple room – Aula viola)
By Mari Kontturi (Luovi Vocational College) and Szilvia Hegyiné Závori (BMSZC Újpesti Két Tanítási Nyelvű Műszaki Technikum)
This workshop will be an opportunity to work together on relevant topics related to sustainable internationalisation, such as:- What does sustainability mean in mobility?
- How to promote sustainability in internationalisation activities?
- How to include sustainability in everyday work?
- Session 4. – Implementing Effective Practical Teaching Strategies: A Discussion on Alternatives to Dual-System
(Grey room – Plenary, Auditorium)
By Armin Biber (High School of Business, Commerce and Trade Sarajevo)
The workshop will analyse the case of alternative work based learning strategies from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the workshop participants will have a chance to discuss how to implement practical teaching without having officially the dual-teaching system and offering insights into advantages and disadvantages. This session is aimed to exchange sustainable and relevant ideas on how to improve the process.
- Uniser is one of the leading organisations in Europe supporting schools and training centres with services for internationalisation and for the learning mobility of students and teachers. It is a cooperative with sixty professional workers operating in more than ten countries, coordinating a network of 43 destinations for mobility experiences. The headquarters are located in Bologna city centre in a unique post-industrial space requalified to be the beating heart for the development of innovation in internationalisation and learning mobility.
- Bi-Rex is one of the 8 Italian Competence Centers funded by the Italian Ministry of the Economic Development within the Industry 4.0 National Plan and our main focus is on Big Data. Bi-Rex is a public-private Consortium, born in 2018, it has its headquarter in Bologna (Italy) and gathers in partnership 60 players among Universities, Research Centers and Companies of excellence in order to assist businesses, in particular SMEs, through a varied series of services: from consultancy to technology assessment, from design to validation of innovative solutions, from orientation to training, up to the Pilot Plant.
- Granarolo since 1957 it has meant milk and dairy products: thanks to its two most important souls, the innovative drive of corporate companies and the protection of people typical of cooperatives, it has established itself as a world reference point for the production and distribution of milk, fresh cheeses and seasoned, dry pasta, balsamic vinegar of Modena IGP and much more. It has plants in Italy, France, Brazil, New Zealand, Germany and Great Britain.
- DUCATI is one of the leading companies in the Emilia-Romagna Motor Valley: the motorcycles it produces are a real cult object all over the world for two-wheel and high-speed lovers, above all for out-of-the-ordinary, guaranteed performance from an R&D department with few rivals. The victory obtained in the 2022 MotoGP world championship is the definitive consecration of the brand on a global level.
DAY 3
Friday, 12th May
– Ludovica Tramontin, Changemaker School Italy programme manager
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Workshop 1. – Advanced Teaching
(Red room – Aula bioinformatica)
By Giorgia Bellentani (Fondazione Golinelli) and Myrto Sipardani (AKMI)
A workshop to understand what a Teacher Academy is and how to set up such projects in the future, as well as the expected outputs. The participants will be presented two case studies: the project CLIMADEMY – CLIMAte change teachers’ acaDEMY, by Fondazione Golinelli and the project TUTOR – Teachers’ Upskilling Aiming at a Holistic Inclusivity in Learning, by AKMI. -
Workshop 2. – Developing capacity for the future in collaboration with third countries
(Blue room – Aula didattica)
By Paola Saini and Annalisa Palano (Uniser)
Capacity building in the field of VET is a recent new area of projects that allow collaboration with countries outside the European Union to develop competences required by VET practitioners. During this working session, participants will hear the story of two projects implemented by Uniser that are focused on capacity building in the Western Balkans area: DC-VET and INTERVET. -
Workshop 3. – Excelling in VET
(Grey room – Plenary, Auditorium)
By Pelin Ünlü (SEPR), Paolo Nardi (Cometa Formazione) and Luca Lombardi (Uniser)
The workshop will provide an overview of the Center of Vocational Excellence, a funding tool made available by the European Commission to develop innovation on a large scale, based on the upward convergence among practitioners in the VET field. Two CoVE projects will be examined during this session, the project MOSAIC – Mastering job-Oriented Skills in Arts & crafts thanks to Inclusive Centres of vocational excellence (coordinated by SEPR) and the project GIVE – Governance for Inclusive Vocational Excellence (coordinated by Cometa Formazione).
The closing session will be dedicated to an evaluation of the week: drawing conclusions from the previous working days about the results achieved and how they can be a starting point for future actions and new collaborations for a more sustainable internationalisation, collecting inputs and feedback to set the basis for the next edition of the Teacher Week.
Learning Outcomes
The aim of the event is to increase participants’ expertise on internationalisation of education and inspire new concrete strategies for making this process more sustainable under the environmental, operational and economical point of view.
Familiarise with methodological tools necessary for drafting a sustainable internationalisation strategy for their organisation or update the existing one.
Cooperate and learn in an international context how to set-up a EU project idea in line with their organisational needs and select the most appropriate type of international activity in relation to the competences to be acquired by their target groups.
Open up their organisations to host teachers and students from other countries.
Integrate elements of environmental sustainability in their transnational projects.
Address internationalisation in their organisations with digital tools and approaches to make their job easier.
Incorporate in their teaching methodologies more transnational components through virtual, blended and physical mobility.
Learning Outcomes
The aim of the event is to increase participants’ expertise on internationalisation of education and inspire new concrete strategies for making this process more sustainable under the environmental, operational and economical point of view.
Familiarise with methodological tools necessary for drafting a sustainable internationalisation strategy for their organisation or update the existing one.
Cooperate and learn in an international context how to set-up a EU project idea in line with their organisational needs and select the most appropriate type of international activity in relation to the competences to be acquired by their target groups.
Open up their organisations to host teachers and students from other countries.
Integrate elements of environmental sustainability in their transnational projects.
Address internationalisation in their organisations with digital tools and approaches to make their job easier.
Incorporate in their teaching methodologies more transnational components through virtual, blended and physical mobility.
