Cork City, Ireland is part of the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities which currently has 229 active active member cities throughout 55 countries.

The third in Cork CityLabs ‘Future of Port’ Seminar Series, we connect community, city and university colleagues across the UNIC European University Alliance and Port University League. This series brings thought leaders together for conversations that help inspire us to rethink and redesign the future of our urban centers – in a citizen centered, diverse and ecological manner.

TTT 3 - Teach the Teacher Training session 3: International Co-Teaching - is an online international workshop dedicated to the teaching approach of Virtual Exchange.

UNIC partner, the University of Oulu, will host an online event, Visiting Guest Lectures in Transnational Citizen Science, open to UNIC partners, on 30 May 2023 from 9.00am to 11.10am (Irish time). The event will be held online via Zoom and is open to the 100 fastest participants.

More information and registration details: https://unic.eu/en/events/visiting-guest-lectures-transnational-citizen-science.

UNIC partner Erasmus University Rotterdam will host a Summer School on 'Education for Social Change' on their campus on 3rd to 6th July 2023. See more information, and registration details: https://unic.eu/en/news/summer-school-opportunity-unic-academics-education-social-change.

In celebration of Europe Day, May 9th, we asked UNIC colleagues what being part of Europe means to them, and what being part of the UNIC European university alliance means to them.

Delegates from Cork attended the UNIC General Assembly and CityLabs Festival in Bilbao at the end of April 2023. The festival brought together participants from city, university and community sectors from UNIC partner cities for a three-day schedule of meetings, brainstorming activities, and signature UNIC CityLabs. In UNIC, the European University of Cities in Post-Industrial Transition, UCC is creating innovative forms of mobility and community engagement with nine partner universities across Europe and their cities.

Intercultural Dialogue: collaborative teaching and learning in international settings

This workshop is conducted in a collaboration of trainers from different UNIC universities. In the workshop you will meet teachers of partner-universities of the UNIC-Alliance, which come from: Belgium, Croatia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden and Turkey.

In this international setting you will familiarize with the concept of Virtual Exchange (especially COIL: 'Collaborative Online International Learning'), you will reflect on your own teaching culture and discover the learning and teaching culture of your partners. You will collaborate to create a Virtual Exchange setting for your students. You will create first ideas for fostering the collaboration of your students. You will discuss challenges of intercultural encounters and learn how to deal with them. You will have the chance to network with other teachers from the UNIC alliance.