- Partners Meeting - on Wednesday 21st August following a summer break, the COIL@UArctic partners reconvened to plan the year ahead with a focus on increasing engagement with the network and COIL projects. The next meeting will be held on Tuesday 1st October.
- 32nd Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research - on Friday 20th September Alona Roitershtein and Steve Harbert spoke about COIL@UArctic to encourage more COIL projects across the North.
- Yellow Tulip Project - on Wednesday 11th September Izzy Crawford and Suzanne Fox co-hosted a webinar introducing a new COIL project for UArctic and non-UArctic members that is designed to address the stigma associated with mental ill health and suicide. A second webinar will be held on Thursday 25th September from 4pm to 5pm UTC. Please contact Izzy Crawford i.c.crawford@rgu.ac.uk for more information and how to join.
- EAIE Conference – on Thursday 19th September, Mariam Raza (Conestoga College, Canada) and Izzy Crawford (Robert Gordon University, Scotland) delivered a world cafe session on the development of COIL@UArctic and using COIL to promote sustainability, with biodiversity loss education content supplied by Elina Oksanen.
- Kick Start COIL Webinar – on Wednesday 16th October 2024 from 4pm to 5pm (UTC), COIL@UArctic will host the next webinar topic in the series looking at the challenges and support available when starting a COIL project – please contact Izzy Crawford i.c.crawford@rgu.ac.uk for more information and how to join.
- IVEC Conference - on Monday 21st October, Izzy Crawford and Pascal Ezenkwu from Robert Gordon University will present a proposal for a new COIL Matchmaker app that is designed to make the process of finding a suitable COIL partner quicker and easier.
- UArctic COIL profiles and examples – please get in touch with Izzy Crawford i.c.crawford@rgu.ac.uk if you would like to have your profile included on the thematic webpage to help you find a COIL partner, or if you have completed a COIL project and would like it to be featured on the thematic webpages.
- Presentation at the International Virtual Exchange Conference – Izzy Crawford delivered an online flash presentation at the International Virtual Exchange Conference from 21st to 24th October 2024 , where participants were invited to watch a video about the COIL Matchmaker prototype and complete a survey about it. The findings will be used to develop a funding proposal to take the project to completion and make it available to all UArctic members. Find the Book of Abstracts here.
- COIL Master Class at the Norwegian COIL forum – Izzy delivered an online COIL Master Class to the Norwegian COIL forum from 1st to 30th November 2024, to explore through discussion how COIL pedagogy can strengthen sustainability education and greater collaboration between colleges and universities within and beyond the Arctic region.
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