For whom: anyone involved in or considering a VIS project  
Where: University of Groningen, Academy Building, Broerstraat 5 Groningen  
When: Thursday 9 November, 10:30-17:30  
Register: free event, sign up via registration form.

Are you involved or interested in Virtual International Collaboration Projects (VIS)? Would you like be inspired by exchanging ideas and best practices with experienced and starting VIS colleagues? Then come to the VIS Live! Event on November 9 2023, at the University of Groningen!

The program runs from 10.30am – 5.30pm and includes contributions from VIS practitioners, support staff and coordinators. The provisional programme is below.

The final programme will be published by 13 October next.
You will receive the latest information a week before the event.

10:30-13:00 Registration

10:30-11:00 Walk-in and coffee/tea

11:00-12:00 Opening information and advice market, with stands from:

• VIS consortium: the training and support team for VIS (CINOP, Sharing Perspectives Foundation, UNICollaboration, University of Groningen, University of Applied Sciences Utrecht)  
• Dialogic: the agency implementing the VIS evaluation programme on behalf of OCW
• DUS-I: the agency coordinating VIS applications for OCW
• NUFFIC: the Dutch organisation for internationalisation in education

Poster presentations by colleagues involved in VIS

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-13:05 Welcome and opening

13:10-13:30 “Virtual International Collaboration: an opportunity to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goals in higher education”
Keynote presentation by Mónica López López, associate professor/ Rosalind Franklin Fellow and expert in child and family welfare, inequality in child protection, also internationalisation coordinator (Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen)

13:30-13:40 Room change

13:40-14:20 Parallel programme round 1:
Presentations and/or campfire sessions by teachers, students, supporters, coordinators, researchers and others involved in VIS (approx. 8 presentations).

14:25-14:55 Coffee/tea
Poster presentations by colleagues involved in VIS

15:00-15:40 Parallel programme round 2:
Presentations and/or campfire sessions by teachers, students, supporters, coordinators, researchers and others involved in VIS (approx. 8 presentations).

15:40-15:50 Room change

15:50-16:45 Closing session: Impact and future of VIS, with contributions from Dialogic, OCW, VIS consortium and others.

16:45-17:30 Wrap-up with drinks