FOUR students of the University of Cebu will join the Intercultural Leadership Boot Camp to be hosted by Varna University of Management in Bulgaria.

Shimilee Micah Agacita and Nhoaven Rameso of UC’s College of Teacher Education and Earl Marie Regulacion and Aljens Agbay of the College of Tourism Management were the recipients of the internalization project.

They will have the chance to develop and strengthen their global competence by participating in the leadership training.

The university said that FRIENDS, an international partnership project of Higher Education Institutions in Bhutan, Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Philippines, continued despite the difficulties brought by the Covid19 pandemic.

“With its power still growing, technology has kept the world running. Schools and universities have had an exodus to online class platforms. In the University of Cebu, there was no dead end. The administration, faculty and students showed no signs of quitting. One of the examples of UC’s pushing forward is the 3rd UC FRIENDS international partnership project,” it said.

Dubbed as the Intercultural Awareness and Cultural Massive Open Online Course, the project opened in April 2020, an eight-week online course that all of UC’s four campuses committed to complete.

“There were 242 official participants coming from all UC campuses. At the end of the course, all participants received an Intercultural Passport or an international certificate. What’s more interesting was the Digital Storytelling Contest,” the university said.

“This was the output after the Intercultural Awareness and Cultural Massive Open Online Course. Each participant had to submit a three-minute video showcasing the learnings from the course and incorporate those learnings to the student’s own Filipino culture. After the stringent standards of judging guidelines, four winners were announced by FRIENDS and the UC administration,” it added.