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Senior lecturer Lotta Kokkonen from the Centre for Multilingual Academic Communication - Movi at the Ģ��ֱ�� (JYU) and professor Alex Frame from the Languages and Communication Faculty at the University of Burgundy (uB) have been team teaching within FORTHEM for four years. The collaboration started during the COVID-19 as a shared online course when both teachers thought that their students might benefit from multilingual and intercultural groupwork despite the restrictions on mobility.

With the help and expertise of colleagues two preceding online sessions and a week of lectures, activities and social events in sunny and warm Jyväskylä at the end of May 2024  were organized. Lecturer Teija Natri from Movi focused on issues on multilingualism and professor of cross-cultural management Henriett Primecz and her students from Johannes Kepler University Linz from Austria brought a cross-cultural management insight to the course. Associate professor Kanako Nishizumi from Japanese Chiba University and her students brought along more understanding of the different linguistic elements of intercultural collaboration and added to the multilingual and multicultural composition of the course.

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Some feedback from the participants:

"The course surprised me in a very positive way, I couldn't imagine that it would be so much fun and that we would connect so well in such a short amount of time. This week was the best I had in my whole studies."

"Overall, I think the BIP design is perfect, it was my best decision to make to come to Finland.”

"I found it pretty amazing, to be honest."