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Virtual Exchange is a collective term for set of collaborative online learning practices that cut across institutional, cultural, and international borders. Moving outside their environments, the participants engage in project work with foreign peers. The teams have to time zones, use languages, manage cultural differences apply digital tools communication collaboration. virtual projects enhance development transversal work/life skills, which are an asset today’s global labour market. aim present study explore emotional trajectory based on students’ e-portfolios. By analysing self-evaluations, we can get better understanding experience participating findings develop pedagogical facilitation such projects. research questions address emotions students described when they were reporting experiences individual trajectories emerge reports. Data was collected form e-portfolios student submitted at end Finnish-Polish 2019. “Combining Expertise from Linguistics Tourism: A Tale Two Cities Told Videos” collaboration had promotional discourse tourism as its main theme. (N=25) university majoring (Poland) language studies (Finland). analysed help dialogical approach combined analytical insights (Sullivan, 2012).