{"id":2497,"date":"2021-08-19T11:36:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T09:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asem-education.org\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2024-02-12T17:43:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T15:43:38","slug":"successful-kick-off-of-the-asem-coil-pilot-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asem-education.org\/news\/successful-kick-off-of-the-asem-coil-pilot-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful Kick-off of the ASEM COIL Pilot Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is COIL? <\/strong><\/h3>\n

COIL or Collaborative Online International Learning<\/strong> is an approach that promotes the development of students\u2019 intercultural competences in multicultural learning environments while staying at home.  COIL connects  students and professors in different countries for collaborative projects and discussions<\/strong>  and seeks to provide meaningful, significant opportunities for international experiences and cultural awareness<\/strong> integrated into programmes of study. COIL also seeks to enhance intercultural student interaction<\/strong> (cf. https:\/\/coil.suny.edu<\/a>\/) and is often synonymously used with the term virtual exchange (cf. http:\/\/www.unicollaboration.org\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n

New opportunities for collaboration and exchange in the ASEM Education Process<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The ASEM Education Process would like to promote the COIL-approach<\/strong> amongst its partner countries as it allows for more equitable access to meaningful exchanges<\/strong> and intercultural collaboration between Asian and European students and lecturers, than physical exchanges.<\/p>\n

ASEM COIL Pilot Project <\/strong><\/h3>\n

Under the initiative of Prof. Dr. Alexandra Angress,<\/strong> from the University of Applied Sciences Aschaffenburg (TH AB), an ASEM COIL Pilot has been launched in May 2020 as a seminar task in the module \u201cInternational Competencies: Intercultural Cooperation and Communication (ICC)\u201d co-lectured by Prof. Dr. Renate Link, in the framework of the TH AB master\u2019s programme \u201eInternational Management\u201c.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the tightly-knit and varied Asian network of the two lecturers Prof. Dr. Angress and Prof. Dr. Link, all in all, the amazing number of twelve (including TH AB) partner or cooperating universities in both regions<\/strong> \u2013 Asia and Europe \u2013 were successfully and actively involved in the ASEM COIL Pilot Project:<\/p>\n