Leonardo Workshop in Valencia

As part of the “Foreign Students at our Universities from A to Z” project, teams from four European universities came together to attend an international Leonardo Workshop in Valencia in Spain from 13 to 14 March 2013.
The two-year-long project, consisting of a total of four workshops held at all four of the participating universities, is an initiative of the International Offices at four European partner universities in Norway, Poland, Spain and Liechtenstein, which possess complementary expertise in the areas of exchange and mobility. The aim of the project is to define a common strategy to improve the organization, quality and transparency of exchange programmes.



The University of Liechtenstein hosted the first workshop in April last year; the second workshop took place in Oslo in October 2012. Last week, it was the turn of the Colegio Juan Comenius in Valencia, which is specialized in the areas of image editing, multimedia and sound engineering. 

Social media – communicating with students
The workshop provided by the International Office of the Colegio Juan Comenius focused on the communication with students via the new media. Across two days, social media platforms such as Google+, WhatsApp, Dropbox, Twitter and Facebook were analysed and tested to establish the extent to which such media can be used for easier and more optimal communication with current and future students.



The International Office teams from Colegio Juan Comenius, Diakonhjemmet University College in Oslo, the College of Enterprise and Administration in Lublin and the University of Liechtenstein used this opportunity to exchange their expertise and experience. The participants from the University of Liechtenstein were Trudi Ackermann, Head of the International Office, Mirjana Matic-Schädler and Gabriela Cortés, International Exchange Advisors at the International Office, and Simone Brandenberg from the Administrative Department for Communication.


The programme included a campus tour and a tour of the city of Valencia, which was then celebrating the biggest event of the year: Las Fallas.

European exchange programme
The “Foreign students at our Universities from A to Z” project is supported by AIBA Liechtenstein and implemented within the scope of the Leonardo da Vinci Programme – the EU programme for partnership in vocational education and training, projects to transfer innovative practices, and partnerships and projects for the development of processes and networks.

The final workshop, at which all the results are to be collated, will take place in Lublin in May this year.