The UNITE! Staff Week Aalto Staff Training, February 22 and 25-26 and March 1 and 2

First week
Mon February 22, 9-15:30 (CET)
9:00 Welcome / Vice President Petri Suomala
9:15 UNITE Goals and Challenges of Virtual Mobility, Virtual Exchange and Blended Mobility, Prof.
Katrina Nordström
9:45 Trends of internationalization, Prof. Hannu Seristö, Associate Vice President, External Relations
10:15-10:45 Introduction of participants
Lunch break
13:00 Virtual Course example at Aalto, Laura Sivula, Head of Summer School
13:30 Group work: VE in different UNITE universities
14:30 Reporting Group works
Trainer: UNICollaboration
Thu February 25, 9-13:00 (CET)
MODULE 1
How to institutionalize Virtual Exchange in higher education contexts: examples of VE within HEIs and
HEI networks
Fri February 26, 9-13:00 (CET)
MODULE 2
Evaluating UNITE’s capacity to implement and sustain Virtual Exchange
• Pros & Cons of implementing different models;
• Stakeholder analysis

Second week
Mon March 1, 9-13:00 (CET)
MODULE 3
Keys to a successful collaboration:
• who (internal team and partners)
• how (technology)
Tue March 2, 9-13:00 (CET)
MODULE 4
Considerations for Successful Virtual Exchange Implementation

Registration in Webropol by February 12, 2021: ​ link.webropolsurveys.com/S/5A98934A334B9568​