2nd International Week: Exchanging Expereinces at Liepaja University

From 14 - 17 May 2019 Liepaja University Foreign Affairs department for the 2nd time was organizing the 2nd International Week: Exchanging experiences. This year LiepU hosted 40 participants from 17 countries: Germany, France, Belgium, Uzbekistan, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Turkey, Austria, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Lithuania, USA, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Romania. 

International Week guests were international department coordinators, administrative staff, teachers - people who are working at their universities with Erasmus+ program or international students. During 3 days seminar program, guests presented their experiences on how to motivate students to use Erasmus+ opportunities, how the information on Erasmus+ projects are dissiminated, what are the credit recognition procedures at different universities.

In the 2nd seminar LiepU Foreign affairs department presented their Erasmus+ projects with Ateneo de Manila University in Philippines and Sinergia University in Bosnia and Hercegovina. With the help of other participants, tips on how to prepare the good Erasmus+ KA107 poposal were definied. Presentations on Sinergia University and Tashkent Textile and Linght Industry Insitute Followed. The last seminar was dedicated to experiences on how different universities are integrating their foreign students from different countries. Professor Albrecht Achim from Westphalian University of Applied sciences in Germany shared his universities and countries experience on how refugees are integrated in the universities. 

Wide cultural program was prepared for the International week guests - the city tour with a guide, networking event with each countries traditional snacks, excursion to Karsota, former military part of the city and visit to tradition house "Namīns" where guests had a chance to discover the rich culture of Latvia. International week participants were also welcomed at the Liepaja city municipality.

International Week was oganized with the financial support of European Commission program Erasmus+ financial support.

 

 

Represented universities:

Private University of Education, Diocese Linz

University of Craiova

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

University of Lorraine

Sinergija University

University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budajovice

Public University of Navarre-Spain

Thomas More University

University College of Teacher Education Styria

İstanbul Aydın University

Kazimierz Wielki University

Grenoble Alpes University

Mendel University in Brno

University of Warsaw

University of Presov

University Carlos III de Madrid

Tashkent institute of Textile and Light Industry

University of Lorraine

Westphalian University of Applied Sciences

Vilnius University

University of Silesia in Katowice

Polytechnic of Leiria

Silesian University

Arıstotle University

Klaipeda State University of Applied Sciences