Multiple Projects in Xcode Workspace - ios

I created a workspace and added two projects in Xcode workspace. One new and one existing. I want to access a storyboard of an existing project within a tap of a button in new project. Can I do that?
Existing project is linked with a lot of libraries and one of them is Tapku library. It works fine, but I want to have a new project and some buttons there, that when I tap a button I access an existing projects storyboard and then work with that so called application.
thank you.
This is what I tried to do:
UIStoryboard *sb = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:#"Main_iPad" bundle:nil];
UIViewController *vc = [sb instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"LoginView"];
vc.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal;
[self presentViewController:vc animated:YES completion:NULL];
and I have error:
Could not find a storyboard named 'Main_iPad' in bundle NSBundle "somePath/Application1.app (loaded)
This storyboard is in Application2 Project.

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UIViewController *rootViewController = [[UIViewController alloc] init];//whatever you appdelegate code for student is
[self.window setRootViewController:rootViewController];
}
else {
NSLog(#"teacher!");
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