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The Transalpine Italian-German Tandem COIL programme consists of virtual exchange activities between students of Italian as a foreign language at Universität Heidelberg (Germany) and students of German as a foreign language at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Brescia Campus). The programme takes place in synchronous mode, via Teams.

Participants undertake direct interaction with their German mother-tongue tandem partners and will be able to take advantage of all the opportunities arising from peer-to-peer communication in a digital and multimedia context to improve their oral and written language skills and share experiences and knowledge related to the German language, culture and society.

The English for Internationalisation Purposes (EIP) COIL programme (Collaborative Online International Learning) gives you the opportunity to practice and improve your English skills via communication scenarios that would be typical of the international professional and academic world. It also aims at developing important transversal skills, e.g., teamwork, negotiation, decision making and time management, as well as increasing awareness to sensitive issues in multicultural environments. 
 

Students participating in this exchange will be required to collaborate with a partner or small group to accomplish a task related to the healthcare system in their country:

The task is aligned with one or more of the UN SDGs: sustainable cities and communities/decent work/economic growth/ good health and well-being. Together, the students will collaborate on a project to compare/contrast their respective cities and to propose sustainable, or more equitable alternatives.

In order to complete this task, students will examine their respective contexts as well as the context of their partner/group.  When possible, American students will be required to write and speak in Italian, Italian students in English.

The project invites students to consider tourism in their respective countries from the perspective of sustainability, and to design a tourist itinerary respecting specific aspects of sustainability as illustrated in the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The COIL Online Digital Collaboration Project for English is an international project coordinated by the Amsterdam School of International Business and is designed to help you improve your English language proficiency. Participants speak with students of other nationalities in a virtual collaborative learning environment so that they can build intercultural awareness and acquire language skills to be able to communicate successfully about interesting business topics.  

You will collaborate with colleagues in Amsterdam at virtual meetings to undertake a project linked to the Sustainable Development Goals set out in the 2030 UN Agenda. You will be writing a business report of 1,500 words and designing a poster using different media to set out a plan which could be used to address, and possibly achieve, one of the five goals in the agenda. Your hypothetical client is a non-governmental organisation which could put your project into action in an industrialised or developing country. Each member of the group will use the skills acquired during their studies to contribute creatively to the research work, draw up the business report and create the poster.

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Language to Language (L2L) is a COIL international project designed for UC students to improve their knowledge of English and for Irish students to improve their knowledge of Italian language and culture.