Garantindo Longevidade: Sustentabilidade de uma Troca Intercultural Online no Ensino Superior

In the realm of educational initiatives, sustainability is often conceptualized as the capacity of a project to perpetuate its activities (Wiley, 2007, p.5). Contrasting one-off virtual exchanges, sustained projects offer a host of benefits, including iterative refinement of procedures, methodological enhancements, resource repurposing, and leveraging the accumulated expertise of exchange facilitators. This qualitative study, which utilizes document analysis as the research method (Bowen, 2009), examines a segment of Project Clavier, a French-Polish language and intercultural exchange spanning online and offline modalities, and assesses its sustainability over twelve years. Drawing from Christenbury’s (2011) delineation of effective teaching traits, which posits that effective teaching should be variable, contextual, premised on students’ intellectual curiosity, autonomous, and fearless, we conclude that the enduring success of this ongoing initiative is underpinned by an interplay between, personal, academic, professional and institutional dynamics.