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Sarah Guth teaches English as a foreign language (EFL) at the University of Padova, Italy. She was the Program Coordinator at the SUNY COIL Center from February 2013 to June 2014. Her research focuses on telecollaboration, intercultural communication and the normalization of virtual exchange in higher education. She is the President of the UNICollaboration Organisation. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on language learning and testing, computer-mediated communication, intercultural competence, and culture learning and co-edited the book Telecollaboration 2.0: Language, Literacies and Intercultural Learning in the 21st Century with Francesca Helm.

Francesca Helm is assistant professor of English at the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, University of Padova in Italy. Her research research interests are in the fields of identity, intercultural learning, virtual exchange and internationalisation of education. She is currently leading the Monitoring and Evaluation in the European Commission’s recently launched Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange project. Recent publications include the volume Emerging Identities in Virtual Exchange https://research-publishing.net/book?10.14705/rpnet.2018.25.9782490057191