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Hi Everyone, My name is Eileen, I work in the Department of Physical Sciences in MTU Cork. I teach chemistry (primarily organic and pharmaceutical chemistry) and love working with the students to develop interpersonal skills. Up until this year I worked part time with our teaching and learning unit, working with new staff and assisting their transition into teaching at University and really loved that, getting to know new staff and learning from their journey! Prior to this I worked in UCC and was involved in a collaboration with a University in Egypt, where I travelled annually to teach and also engaged with international student in an online Masters programme.

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Tom O'Mahony. I'm with the Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering. At the moment I mostly teach fourth years on the Electrical and Electronic Engineering programmes. Half of my time is also spent with the Teaching and Learning Unit at MTU. I coordinate and teach on the MA in Teaching and Learning in HE and have designed and delivered a number of professional development initiatives for MTU staff. I am also interested in educational research and am involved in a number of research projects in that space. A recent review of our Electrical & Electronic Engineering programmes highlighted the limited opportunities available to our students to engage with other disciplines. Virtual Exchange grabbed my interest as a possible way to address this deficiency.

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Hi all,

I'm Catherine, from the Department of Physical Sciences in MTU based on the Bishopstown Campus. I've worked in lots of different departments in MTU, teaching physics and project management. I've also worked in different roles in MTU, in the Registrars Office, MTU Office and Strategic Development Office over the years. I've no experience of Erasmus and I'm looking forward to learning about Virtual Exchanges.

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Hi everyone

I'm Breda Hickey. I am a lecturer in the Department of Tourism & Hospitality at MTU Cork. I teach on a wide range of programs from theory to more practical based and across a range of departments also from time to time. I have been a member of the AEHT - the European Association for Hotel & Tourism schools- for many years and that has given me an interest in learning more about learning exchange opportunities which is why I have joined this program. Looking forward to working with you and learning from you in the coming weeks!

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Hello! My name is Magda. I am based in the beautiful county of Kerry in the west of Ireland. I am an assistant lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences. I have been relatively 'new' to my role (since September 2022). My interest is in human rights, education for sustainable futures and global citizenship. I signed

up for this course as I am a massive fan of internationalisation, and 'doing' it virtually is very sustainable. I do not have any experience in the delivery of international collaborative teaching. However, I have availed of international education in the past. Firstly, I completed an Erasmus semester in Norway for my undergraduate degree and then an international master's programme in Sweden. I am looking forward to meeting and engaging with everyone!

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My name is Kyra Dunne and I work at the MTU Bishopstown main campus in Cork, Ireland. I am nearly 20 years at CIT/MTU as part of the administration team. I worked at University College Cork for 11 years previous to joining CIT. I have 30 years experience working in higher education in a wide range of areas including corporate affairs, insurance, finance, student services, marketing, publications and development. I am also currently undertaking a Masters in E-learning on an ACCS basis. My current role as a project manager for EU projects at the Innovation and Enterprise Office involves managing "BI4E" - Boosting INGENIUM for Excellence for MTU and also working on entrepreneurship for the INGENIUM European University alliance that MTU is now a proud partner of. I am interested in partaking in this course to learn more about VE and the potential for it to be utilised for our activities. Looking forward to meeting and connecting with you all.

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Hi, I'm Ursula. As you can tell from my photo I love sports and lucky for me I work in University specialising in Adapted Physical Activity so I get to teach students how to ensure everyone has access to sport and physical activity. I have been involved in physical exchanges through staff mobilities as well as hosting a student intensive programme. In partnership with three other Universities we are applying for ERASMUS funding to develop a virtual programme with a short intensive physical exchange so I am looking forward to learning new skills I can use in the coming years.

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Hi everyone!

I'm Lisa, from the University of Padua -a pretty and tiny town near Venice, Italy. I'm deeply passionate about sustainability, human rights, virtual exchanges, peer learning, intercultural dialogue, and fostering multilingual and multicultural online communities.

Over the past few years, I have coordinated and facilitated the eTandem E+VE project and the Arqus moVEs virtual exchange as part of the Arqus European Alliance. Currently, I implement BIP initiatives and develop interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary virtual exchange projects at the University of Padua.

Looking forward to connecting!

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I am Mirjam Hauck. My academic home is The Open University in the UK where I am currently Lead for AI in Learning, Teaching and Assessment. I have been engaged in Virtual Exchange (VE) for almost two decades and have recently focused on developing and framing the field of Critical Virtual Exchange, i.e. VE that is based on equity, diversity, inclusion and access principles and that challenges hegemonies in current VE and VE-base Internationalisation at Home. I look forward to working with you all!

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Hello, and welcome to this course. My name is Ana Beaven, and I will be one of your trainers. I'm based in Italy (I work at the university of Bologna) and have been involved in Virtual Exchange, as an educator, trainer and dialogue facilitator, for over a decade. Looking forward to meeting you all and working with you in the coming weeks.