In the recent 2nd Annual APU FRIENDS Day: International and Intercultural Festival, we witnessed the official virtual opening of the APU ERASMUS+ FRIENDS Teahouse ceremony and the announcement of the five APU FRIENDS Day Digital Story Winners 2021 from over 190 digital stories on cross-cultural experiences which are built around the concept of Internationalisation at Home (IaH).
The ERASMUS+ FRIENDS Teahouse will now serve as a meeting place on the campus, a hub for the Student Representative Council (SRC), and an area to promote intercultural awareness and cultural diversity module. Students will also be able to use the ERASMUS+ equipment to record and edit their digital stories.
Led by Prof. Dr. Andy Seddon, Senior Director of Partnership and Standards at APU, the prime goal of the FRIENDS project is to develop students’ global competence through the integration of intercultural dimensions into the university’s formal and informal curriculum.
