FRIENDS Caravans in Malaysia

To promote FRIENDS project’s key achievements and benefits to students of HEIs in Malaysia that are not FRIENDS consortium members, 10 FRIENDS Caravan events were hosted and co-hosted by the two FRIENDS partner HEIs in Malaysia – BUC and APU. The events were spread throughout the year 2022 and, depending on the current COVID-19 related restrictions, were held both online or face-to-face. The FRIENDS Caravans in Malaysia gathered 397 students in total from 36 HEIs outside the FRIENDS consortium and were conducted on the following dates:

• 14th February 2022 – with studnets from Unitar, APIIT;
• 28th April 2022 – large scale event with students participating from the following HEIs: Chung Hua Independent High School Klang, Kolej Tingkatan Enam Pudu Jaya, Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Seri Mutiara, SMJK Chung Hwa, Smjk katholik, SMK (P) Methodist Klang, SMK Assunta, SMK Assunta Petaling Jaya, SMK Bandar Utama Damansara, SMK Cheras Perdana, SMK Convent Bukit Nanas, SMK Kepong Baru, SMK Kota Kemuning, SMK P Bukit Kuda, SMK Raja Lumu, SMK Seri Mutiara, SMK Seri Saujana, SMK Seri Sentosa, SMK Setia Alam, SMK St. Mary, SMK Suldan Abdul Samad, SMK Taman Ehsan, SMK Tinggi Port Dickson, SMKBBSP;
• 3rd June 2022 – with students from Xiamen University Malaysia;
• 3rd July 2022 – students from Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology;
  
• 4th July 2022 – student attendees from Taylors University, Nottingham University Malaysia, Xiamen University Malaysia;
• 25th July 2022 – student attendees from Saito University College;
• 26th July 2022 – students from Brickfields Asia College;
• 10th August 2022 – participating students from UCSI;
• 11th August 2022 – students from Taylors University;
• 19th August 2022 – students from IACT and Taylors University;

During the so-called Caravans, a short presentation of the Erasmus+ CBHE FRIENDS project were shown to the audience, as well as presentation of the IACD MOOC as part of the Intercultural Passport virtual module. During the FRIENDS Caravan on 3 July 2022 Ayse Deniz Ozkan from IAU, shared her thoughts about what interculturality means and gave examples how this process can happen and how it will affect our society. (Agenda of Events: 14 February 2022, 28 April 2022, 3 June 2022, 3 July 2022, 4 July 2022, 25 July 2022, 26 July 2022, 10 August 2022,11 August 2022, FRIENDS Caravan Presentation 19 August 2022)