Virtual Exchange

"I think the role-playing sessions were very helpful to structurally analyze conflicts. Both role-playing myself and watching other people role-play helped me try out all the methods we learned in this course. With the role-playing I had a little bit of an emotional distance to the conflict and was therefore able to actually think about the methods we learned. I want to implement this in my real life as well. I the role-playing we had different characters with very different perspectives and conflict styles, which is more likely to happen in an heterogeneous team."
Nele, student in the ROCKET Virtual Exchange class of spring 2024

The course, "Promoting Inclusive Intercultural Teams - ROCKET Virtual Exchange," offers a blended learning experience focused on enhancing intercultural competence. Through Virtual-Exchange and face-to-face sessions at Goettingen University, you'll explore the dynamics of cultural diversity, communication, and inclusion within teams. Collaborating with peers from Goettingen, Groningen, and Uppsala universities, you'll engage in experiential learning, role-play scenarios, and individual assignments to foster a deeper understanding of intercultural teamwork.
The course is part of the innovative project ROCKET, which, co-funded by Erasmus+, develops Critical Virtual Exchange with Role-Playing Games and Conflict Transformation for understanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Conceived by Goettingen, Groningen, and Uppsala universities, it enhances European Higher Education and community connections.

lecturers:
Alexandra Schreiber (Goettingen), Carole Fuller (Groningen), Sarah Lynne Bowman (Uppsala)
4 ECTS (2 SWS)
Official ROCKET Website

"Before this course I thought it would be hard to connect on a personal level with our peers from New York because we were only seeing each other via Zoom but now I think that you can easily connect with people from all over the world by communicating."
Annika, student of the Virtual Exchange 2024

This course introduces you to topics of museum information and intercultural communication. Together with students from St. John's University in New York/USA, you will explore the connections of culture and communication through gamification and the use of museum artifacts. Taken out of their original context, you will explore intercultural connections among a variety of museum artifacts within your intercultural teams, solve challenges and create your own online museum brochure that comprises your findings and insights throughout this intercultural virtual exchange.

Alexandra Schreiber (Göttingen), Christine Angel (New York)
4 ECTS
Click here for more information and the museum brochure of the 2024 student cohort.

This workshop is conducted in cooperation with the International Office at Goettingen University and brings together students from Goettingen and partner institutions worldwide, to share and learn from each other about culture, intercultural communication and their respective higher education systems. This workshop aims to bring together students who prepare to come to Goettingen for their studies and those who plan for a semester abroad for a first encounter and exchange in an interactive and fun intercultural learning environment.

lecturers: Johanna El Ouardy, Jan Hartling-Knaak
3 ECTS

This workshop is being conducted as joint classroom format with ISET in Béja/Tunisia and covers current topics around perception, pluralism and ambiguity within Arab*ic and West*ern cultural groups. You will work in international intercultural teams around SDG´s and innovation to get to creative problem solving.

lecturers: Alexandra Schreiber, Nadia Cheikhrouhou, Jens Scheiner
6 ECTS

Supported by the initiative "Internationalization of the Curricula" (IdC), Univ. Göttingen.

For the Global Engagement Module we partner up with the University of Groningen and Ghent University to give you the opportunity to participate in one real-world challenge around Public Health, Migration and Society, and Climate Change Adaptation. You will work together with students from 10 ENLIGHT partner universities and develop knowledge, skills and attitudes about your own and other cultures, about how to communicate ideas and take action in your local communities. Learn more about the ENLIGHT Global Engagement Modul in our Newsletter here.
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In this course you will learn about conflict and its underlying aspects for intercultural learning experiences. You will engage in role-playing scenarios, examine different conflict styles and co-create role-play scenarios to be transferred to your respective contexts.

lecturers:
Alexandra Schreiber (Goettingen), Sarah Lynne Bowman (Uppsala)
3 ECTS (2 SWS)
Official ROCKET Website