Virtual Exchange Seminar

The Virtual Exchange Seminar cooperation format offers a contemporary response to current challenges in university teaching. Such teaching formats enable students who are unable to study abroad for personal reasons to gain international experience “at home”. Lecturers can use this format to test the use of innovative technologies in collaboration with international partners and possibly establish new collaborations.

The event should be characterized as follows:

• At least two lecturers jointly run the course, one from UniBE and one from a ENLIGHT university. Additional partner universities may be involved.
• The course can either take place purely virtually or with attendance components. While students can also meet physically on site at their home universities, the encounter and dialog between Bernese students and students from the partner university takes place online.
• It is a newly designed seminar (not a lecture) including interactive modules that lead to exchange and cooperation between students from both universities.
• Each university awards ECTS points to its students.
• The language of instruction is English (with the exception of linguistic studies).
• The target group can be bachelor or master students (or both, but not PhDs).
• Students at UniBE can have the course credited to their studies as a regular course.

For 2026, you have the possibility of acquiring 6 personnel points as support for the additional work in preparing such a format.

If you are interested, please use the Virtual Exchange Seminar Application Form 2027: