UDP Internacional

22 August 2023

On Friday, July 28, the team from the General Directorate of International Relations met with the academics who were awarded the 2023 Internationalization of Learning Processes (FIPA) funds, a call that seeks to promote the “Collaborative Online International Learning” approach. ” (COIL) in the teaching practices of the UDP.

The COIL methodology arose in the 2000s with the intention of democratizing and mainstreaming the internationalization of the students of the State University of New York. In this sense, this meeting was developed with the objective of academics exchanging experiences and inquiring into possible collaborations. On this occasion, emphasis was also placed on the quality standards of COIL projects and the stages that must be completed to comply with all the characteristics required by this tool.

The meeting was chaired by Anoek van den Berg, General Director of International Relations, who stated that “with these projects the UDP seeks to formalize, institutionalize and support teaching initiatives that make it possible to incorporate, in a concrete way, an international dimension to the formation of our student body”.

“It is vital to be able to bring internationalization to projects and formal curricular instances to ensure that the largest number of students can access these training spaces with a global focus, where they can develop skills, knowledge and attitudes that will allow them to improve their academic and professional performance, as well projecting itself in other cultural spaces and networking”, he highlighted.

In this call, five projects were selected: some will be implemented during the second semester of 2023 and others during the first semester of 2024. Likewise, the academics involved belong to various careers of the faculties of Education, Communication and Letters and Health and Dentistry . Kinesiology was the only discipline that was awarded two projects, through different subjects. Meanwhile, the international partners with whom the academics will work come from the Netherlands, the United States, Poland, Spain, Mexico and Colombia.

This is the second time that the General Directorate of International Relations calls for participation in the FIPA funds. On this occasion, the applications increased, which was highly highlighted by the DGRII.