VIS School for Higher Education

VIS School for Higher Education is the sector dealing with the specialist training in cooperation and human development utilizing the new digital technologies for training. It aims at disseminating a culture of cooperation, solidarity and human rights and provide professional skills to those who deal with international issues.

VIS School for Higher Education exists since 2000 and combines an extensive experience in online training with VIS long practice in implementing interventions in the partner countries where it is present with educational innovation projects. Over 5,000 students have been trained thanks to our courses and the educational offer is constantly updated to respond to the most current professional needs.

To complete the enrollment process, it is necessary to enter the area related to each individual course.

The enrollment will be accepted till the deadline for submitting your application for admission specified in the call for participation and in any case until all available places are covered (for each course there is a maximum of 30 participants).

The user who has the status of consumer, as defined by the Consumer Code – Legislative Decree no. 206/2005, enjoys the right of withdrawal without any penalty within 14 days of signing the contract, or from the moment of payment and resultant automatic receipt of credentials. If the training course begins during the validity of the withdrawal period, the consumer hereby expressly consents, as provided for by article 59, letter a of the Consumer Code, at the beginning of the execution of the service in these terms with resultant acceptance of the loss of the right of withdrawal after the start of the course.

If the course should not be activated due to failure to reach the minimum number of students, the user will be entitled to a refund of 100% of the registration fee.

For further information, contact the Segreteria Didattica / Coordinamento Didattico – corsionline@volint.it

The methodology adopted is the collaborative learning and shared construction of knowledge: the teacher is not the only player who guides the process of acquiring knowledge, there is no flow of notions and information flowing from the individual (the teacher) towards the many, but there are more crosscutting-flows; the teacher does not transfer knowledge from him/herself to others, rather provides adequate inputs, facilitating the circulation of information and the creation of new knowledge, starting from the students of the course and their specific training and aptitude.

VIS School for Higher Education therefore proposes a shift in roles, entrusting responsibilities that are equally distributed within the group of participants: everyone has an active part in the training process. The tools used are asynchronous (newsgroups, forums, multimedia materials) and synchronous (talks, webinars), capable of producing a level of interactivity comparable to a course delivered in presence but with a much more elastic and flexible mode of use. Given the connection difficulties and possible time zone problems, all the synchronous moments are also re-proposed in deferred form through recording.

Our courses are aimed at a very diversified target that changes according to the topic of the course (aspiring international volunteers and expatriate co-operators, university students, graduates wishing to specialize, school teachers of all levels, professionals and entrepreneurs) with the aim of  disseminating expertise in the field of international development cooperation and global citizenship education and to provide suitable tools for better understanding the economic, cultural, anthropological, political, social and planning implications linked to interventions in the countries.

VIS School for Higher Education engages highly qualified teachers, university lecturers together with professionals with significant experience in international development cooperation and the promotion and protection of human rights