This past academic year, Notre Dame Mexico supported two Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) programs, both designed to connect Notre Dame students with peers at partner institutions in Mexico City to ensure an international experience, even if students do not have the opportunity to travel across the globe.
In February, 33 students from Notre Dame and Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México completed the first official ND COIL project with Ibero, focused on migration. Students from International Relations, Economics, Computer Science, and Business applied macro- and microeconomic models to global migration trends and shared their own migration stories throughout the program. The project also received support from Notre Dame Learning and Notre Dame Global. Weeks later, several Notre Dame students met their Ibero classmates in person in Mexico City, joining Migration Week activities as an extension of the work they had done together online.
This spring, a second COIL project paired 19 Notre Dame students with 15 students from Universidad Panamericana, built around language exchange: Notre Dame students studying Spanish worked alongside Universidad Panamericana students studying English, across disciplines ranging from biological sciences and neuroscience to finance and law.
Professor Eva Dziadula (Notre Dame Department of Economics) led the Ibero COIL project with Carla Pederzini, Víctor Pérez-Hernández, and Karla Valenzuela at Universidad Iberoamericana. Instructors María Alejandrina Tinta Segovia and Marcelo Morales led the Universidad Panamericana COIL at Notre Dame, along with Miguel Ángel Pino Ruesga at Universidad Panamericana.
These COIL programs mark only the beginning of multiple collaborations between Mexican universities and Notre Dame to ensure global education is part of students' educational experience.
Originally published by at mexico.nd.edu on September 11, 2026.