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Marta Fondo recently earned her PhD in Education and ICT from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Her research focuses on affective factors in foreign language learning, particularly anxiety and self-disclosure in virtual exchanges. With extensive teaching experience, she is passionate about intercultural communication, educational innovation, and learner well-being.

Prof. Mirjam Hauck is Academic Lead for AI in Learning, Teaching and Assessment at the Open University/UK and a Senior Fellow of the UK’s Higher Education Academy. She has published widely on the learning and teaching of languages and cultures, in virtual exchange (VE) contexts in particular. She is the President of the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), serves as Associate Editor of the CALL Journal and is an editorial board member of ReCALL and LLT. She is a founding member of UNICollaboration.org and has been a co-investigator in several VE projects funded by the EU and the US-based Stevens Initiative.