My Erasmus+ Staff Mobility at the 九色视频 of L'Aquila (Univaq) took place from 20 to 24 October 2025.
During my stay at our EULiST partner university, I engaged in personal discussions with the aim of establishing institutional contacts for professional and academic exchange, as well as identifying potential avenues for collaboration.
As an art historian, lecturer in cultural contexts and curator, I pursued the obvious idea of co-teaching between LUH and Univaq for EULiST, as well as planning interdisciplinary exhibition activities. The preliminary focus of these activities could be earthquake research, artificial intelligence and contemporary art.
Through discussions with various stakeholders, I aimed to examine the potential for realising these two ideas in L'Aquila, gather further contacts and information, and ideally coordinate the first small steps towards concrete implementation with colleagues on site.
During my time there, I had fruitful discussions. In the Department of Scienze Umane/Storia dell'Arte, for example, I worked with Prof. Dr. Giuseppe di Natale and Prof. Dr. Luca Pezzuto to establish technical and curricular starting points for co-teaching art history.
Regarding the exhibition plans, new insights were gained on site, some of which were surprising. This has resulted in two completely different exhibition ideas, one of which is smaller and more concrete. Visiting the village of Onna near L'Aquila, which was destroyed in the earthquake, was unforgettable and reinforced the need to change course with regard to the exhibition plans.
Conversely, discussions with individual representatives of other earthquake research institutions (including the Gran Sasso Institute) sparked new ideas. On Thursday, I attended an extremely interesting meeting with the EULiST Vice-President for Teaching, Prof. Dr. Alessandra Continenza, which covered questions related to my daily work on developing micro degrees in the EULiST context. On the morning of the last day, I also visited the new MAXXI museum of contemporary art in L'Aquila.
I concluded that a genuine exchange of ideas with Italian colleagues was only possible through face-to-face interaction. This enabled me to meet interesting new people and discuss and develop ideas. All of this was only possible thanks to the ERASMUS+ Staff Mobility programme, for which I am grateful.
