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Paula Fonseca
Regina Brautlacht
University Appointments & Affiliations: Appointed Presidential Commissioner |Advisor for Global Digital Learning since 2018 for the President’s Office, Appointed Member of the Commission for International Affairs since 2018, Appointed Presidential Member of the Quality Improvement Commission since 2018, Appointed Presidential Member of the Commission for Teaching and Learning since 2013; Member of Peer Coaching Team since 2016; Founding Member of the Core Team Digital Teaching since 2017; Associated Member of the Centre of Entrepreneurship and SMEs (CENTIM) since 2017.
Research Faculty: BET – Building Expertise and Training for Growth in the Consumer Goods and Food Processing in Ghana (DAAD/BMZ); Partnership for Applied Sciences – PASS (DAAD) from 2017-2018; GAUP – German-African Entrepreneurship Project (DAAD) 2015-2018; Work&Study an e-learning grant (Federal Government BMBF €4.7 m) 2016 –2019.
International Activities in Higher Education: Initiated & coordinate several virtual exchange projects, such as Building Bridges Across Continents (BBAC), European Dialogue Project (EDP) and German-American Project (GASP) and conduct on a regular basis Capacity Building Workshops for Faculty in Ghana and Kenya for Practice-Oriented Teaching and E-learning Methodology since 2014.
DAAD & EU Expert – Global Digital Learning and Pedagogy; Review EU grant applications (Erasmus+) and IMKD, IVAC and other DAAD grants for virtual exchange and mobility since 2018
Consortium of Virtual Exchange (CoVE), Deputy Director and founding member since May 2020.
Lurdes Martins
Maria de Lurdes Martins is a Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, where she teaches and English in the Bachelor of Tourism and the Technical Course of Wine Tourism. She is currently the coordinator of the Wine Tourism course. Between 2012 and 2018, she coordinated Erasmus + mobility in the Management Department and was co-responsible for the creation of 3 International Semesters aimed at Erasmus students. She has been part of virtual exchange projects since 2014. Since then she has collaborated in the planning and implementation of virtual exchange projects with Germany, the USA, Canada, Ghana, Kenya, Italy and France. The participation in these projects has allowed participation in international conferences and some publications. She has Postgraduate Education in Multimedia in Education and has developed a PhD thesis in the area of Web 2.0 technologies in foreign language learning.
Her research interests focus on virtual exchange, international project planning and management, and languages for specific purposes.
Kristi Julian
Gloria K.Q Agyapong
Gloria K.Q Agyapong is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing. She holds a PhD and MBA in Marketing; Bachelor of Management Studies; and a Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing from Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK). Gloria is innovative and has the ability to coordinate both local and international projects. She has been involved in the implementation of both local and international projects including the German-African Entrepreneurship project, BET Ghana Project, and BAIN project, which is part of the CoVE Network. Gloria is a reviewer for several international journals and published in several internationally recognized journals and conferences. Her particular areas of research interests include service quality management; social marketing, sustainability marketing and SMEs market orientation. She teaches courses in marketing such as strategic and international marketing, marketing research, and marketing communications.
Contact Details: gagyapong@ucc.edu.gh
Joseph Owino
School of Business
University of Nairobi
I am a holder of PhD (Business Administration); MBA (Marketing); and Bachelor of Agribusiness Management (Hons). Currently, I lecture at the School of Business, University of Nairobi. I am an active researcher and have published widely in peer-reviewed journals.
My research interests include marketing strategy with a focus on marketing strategy and organizational development. Other research interests include pro-environmental marketing, Technological applications in Pedagogy; and University-Industry Linkages.
I am a full member of the American Marketing Association (AMA) and actively consult in marketing and agribusiness value chains. I am actively involved in a virtual exchange involving students from Africa, Europe and North America. I am the Kenya Country Coordinator for Building Bridges Across Continents (BBAC); a virtual exchange project involving university students.
As one of the founding members of the Consortium of Virtual Exchange, I advocate for virtual exchange in blended teaching of students at institutions of Higher Learning.
Contacts:
Email: jowino@uonbi.ac.ke; owinojoseph@gmail.com
Tel: +254 723 625988
Address: P.O. Box 24993-00100 GPO, Nairobi (K)
Link to publications:
Wendi Hulme
Daniel Agyapong
He has been involved in the implementation of both local and international projects, including the African Institute of Transformational Entrepreneurship, Building Expertise and Training for Growth in the Consumer Goods and Food Processing Industry in Ghana (BET Ghana) Project, GIZ ComCashew, Switch Africa Green, E-MAGIN, Graduate Enterprise Development Initiative, Participatory Appraisals of Competitive Advantage, Building Bridges Across Continents, the Partnership for Applied Sciences, and the German-African University Partnership Platform for the Development of Entrepreneurs.
Contact Details: dagyapong@ucc.edu.gh
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