Intercultural Training for Teachers and International Officers in Higher Education

Hosting Higher Education Institution:
Eötvös Loránd University
Institution website:
http://www.elte.hu/en/intercultural_staffweek
Country:
Hungary
Language:
English
Dates:
Monday, 26 May, 2014 to Friday, 30 May, 2014
Registration fee:
EUR 550
Maximum number of participants:
25
Deadline for applying:
Sunday, 20 April, 2014
Accommodation:
Accommodation not provided
Contact person details:
Ms Ágnes SZÉKELY
Institutional Erasmus Coordinator
E: erasmus@elte.hu

Mr Márton BÉLIK
Head of Department
Department of International Education and Mobility
Rector's Office, Eötvös Loránd University (HU BUDAPES01)

Introduction

This program is based on our four-year experience that we have gained during the annual organization of an Erasmus Staff Mobility Week program for international officers when a special intercultural training has been developed for colleagues from all over Europe.

The one-week training program focusing on interculturality has been designed for international officers and teachers who work with international students and staff.

The instructors of the training are experienced professors of intercultural psychology at the Faculty of Education and Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University who regularly give trainings and talks in this field.

The program also contains intercultural social activities.

 

Aim of the program and target group

The training program aims to promote intercultural communicational skills and competence especially for those who engage in intercultural encounters in their everyday work, who have a lot of experience but feel that they need further to develop their skills to be more successful. 

 

Program details

The experience-based program gives an insight into intercultural communication and intercultural competence while embedding it into a broader context of intercultural sensitivity, intercultural and intergroup relations. Besides analysing the cultural characteristics of communication, the main factors of intercultural competence, the underlying psychological mechanism of the encounter with the different other, it places a special focus on identity, introduces the close relations between culture and human interaction, provides an introduction to intercultural learning as well as to the functioning of ethnocentrism, prejudices, and stereotypes. The program also introduces possible strategies and means of developing an intercultural perspective and increasing the efficiency of intercultural communication. Part of the training will be based on the intercultural experiences of those who work with international students and staff in higher education.