Virtual Exchange Professional Development - Open Societal Challenge Participant

Issued on 23 Feb 2026 by

UNICollaboration

Course developped by The Open University UK in collaboration with UNICollaboration. UNICollaboration is a cross-disciplinary not-for-profit professional organisation for the promotion of virtual exchange and its team has extensive experience in delivering customised training on design and implementation of virtual exchange, internationalisation at home, intercultural competence development (and more) in higher education settings. See more at unicollaboration.org Awarded for participation in Professional Development in the field of Virtual Exchange organised by UNICollaboration trained practitioner/s.

Issuer

UNICollaboration

info@unicollaboration.org

We are UNICollaboration.org, a cross-disciplinary professional organisation for telecollaboration and virtual exchange in Higher Education. The organisation was launched at the Second Conference on Telecollaboration in Higher Education at Trinity College, Dublin in April 2016.

UNICollaboration has two main objectives:

to promote the development and integration of research and practice in telecollaboration and virtual exchange across all disciplines and subject areas in higher education
to actively engage in awareness raising of telecollaboration and virtual exchange at institutional and policy making level

Read more about our background and objectives here.

Criteria

This badge is awarded to participants who have completed Professional Development in the field of the virtual exchange to the satisfaction of the designing practitioners.

The virtual exchange course comprised both asynchronous and synchronous online communication and collaboration with their peers.

Issuer endorsements

Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange

badges@erasmusvirtual.eu

We recognise and trust this organisation for delivering high quality training and experiences in virtual exchange for Higher Education.