BIP for Staff: Micro-credentials Master lab

Anniek Orye is a teacher educator and researcher at PXL-Education. She works as a promoter on several VLIR-UOS research projects carried out in collaboration with UTN in Ecuador, RUPP in Cambodia, JU in Ethiopia, and NWU in South Africa, focusing on advancing educational inclusion while respecting cultural identity.

Lieve Cuypers works to create powerful, safe learning environments through compassionate, inclusive, and decolonising educational approaches, drawing on, among others, Peace Education, Nonviolent Communication and Deep Democracy. She contributed to a VLIR‑UOS project (2023–2025) promoting educational inclusion and cultural identity while decolonising curricula with educators and researchers from Cambodia (RUPP), Ecuador (UTN), South Africa (NWU), Ethiopia (JU) and Belgium (PXL).

With the International Media course, I would like to foster international collaboration by connecting Journalism and Communication students with peers from other universities of applied sciences. Through comparative assignments and joint presentations, they explore different media systems and journalistic cultures, gaining first-hand intercultural experience.

During this lab, participants from partner institutions collaborate to design an innovative micro-credential that strengthens students’ intercultural awareness, global mindset, and professional adaptability. By combining international expertise and practice-oriented approaches, the lab aims to create learning experiences that prepare students for meaningful engagement in a global tourism environment.