Liepaja University (LiepU) staff, International Coordinator of Foreign Affairs Office Sintija Leigute and the project manager of LiepU Art research laboratory Maija Demitere, has arrived from the staff training visit, which was held in Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), in Philippines. The exchange was supported by the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility (KA107) project (No 2018-1-LV01-KA107-046886), which has being implemented together with International Office Department of Ateneo de Manila University.
The aim of the visit was to introduce the International Office Department of ADMU and the Department of Fine Arts with planned activities of this Erasmus+ project in “New Media Art” field, as well as to find out other cooperation opportunities between both partneruniversities in the future. Within this project one teaching lecturer and one student from arts study programme of ADMU Fine Arts Department will be going on Erasmus+ exchange programme in this academic year to Liepaja University.
Moreover, Maija Demitere, who is also Liepu lecturer and doctoral student at LiepU, introduced ADMU with particularities and topicalities of LiepU study programme “New Media Art”, possible further cooperation projects in art research, as well as carried out her own Phd thesis on the slow art in the context of sustainability. During the visit, guests had various meetings and discussions with other ADMU departments, such as the Director of European Studies program and Department of Modern Languages, Department of Chemistry, Department of Mathematics, Department of Information Systems and Computer Science and Ateneo Institute of Sustainability, in order to mark the ways of other cooperation fields in the internationalization of higher education.
As ADMU is one of the largest research universities in Philippines, it means that the mentioned cooperation will allow to carry out common Erasmus+ partnership projects and research in the future and share different experiences about good practices in “New Media Art”.
This week ADMU has the chance to boost their knowledge, as associate professor Dr. Christopher Hales (Chris Hales) from LiepU Faculty of Humanities and Arts, study programme “New Media Art”, is giving lectures and workshops on interactive filmmaking (cinema) to Bachelor students of ADMU study programme “New Media Art” till 11th April.
This Erasmus+ project to Philippines is foreseen that LiepU staff gives lectures and obtain a new experience in this university, but students obtain a new and international study experience.
Photos from meetings with different Departments of Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU)
