The Global Case Study Challenge project, which the centre has been working on, wins Austrian National Teaching Award
Dr Anna Zinenko is one of prize-winners, as co-coordinator of the virtual exchange project working on intercultural issues, digital skills and sustainability. For four years students of the Bachelor’s degree in Tourism and Tourism in English have been participating in the Global Case Study Challenge, which each year brings together hundreds of university students.
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Image and author’s rights: BMBWF/Martin Lusser | From left to right: Martin Polaschek, Austrian Federal Minister for Education, Science and Research, with the promotors of the GCSC, Bárbara Covarrubias, Anna Zinenko and Eithne Knappitsch.
Last Thursday 22 September the Global Case Study Challenge (GCSC) received the Austrian National Teaching Award “Ars Docendi”, at a ceremony in the Aula der Wissenschaften in Vienna, presided over by the Austrian Federal Minister for Education, Science and Research, Martin Polaschek.
The presentation was attended by Dr Anna Zinenko, lecturer in Tourism and Hotel Management at the UAB and Study Abroad, along with two of the co-coordinators of the GCSC: Dr Barbara Covarrubias, lecturer at the Ferdinand Porsche FernFH in Vienna, and Dr Eithne Knappitsch, lecturer at the Carinthia University of Applied Science. All three lecturers also accepted the prize on behalf of the fourth co-coordinator Dr Svetlana Buko, lecturer at the School of Advanced Social Studies in Slovenia.
The international jury named GCSC the winner in the “Cooperative Forms of Teaching and Work” category for a project that includes a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) focus, where lecturers and students from around the world come together and work online on a common project.
This virtual exchange project aims to develop intercultural, digital and sustainability competences through joint working on case studies based on the daily challenges facing international companies and organisations.
In October the GCSC will continue for its fifth year, and for the fourth consecutive year students from the Bachelor’s degree in Tourism and Tourism in English at the UAB will form part of the global virtual teams which include participants from more than 15 different countries. Through this initiative the students can experience working remotely with people from other cultures, time zones and disciplines.
Last June, the GSCS team also received the first PROFFORMANCE Prize for international teaching excellence within the “Innovative Teaching and Learning” category at a ceremony in Budapest.
Image and author’s rights: PROFFORMANCE | Dr Eithne Knappitsch (left) and Dr Anna Zinenko (centre) at the Profformance awards ceremony with Alexander Kohler (right), representing the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research.
