Project partners
- EuroPartnership Agency Ltd – United Kingdom
- European Center For Quality Ltd. – Bulgaria
- FH JOANNEUM – University of Applied Sciences – Austria
- LUISS Business School – Italy
- International Consulting and Mobility Agency INCOMA – Spain
- Associação Intercultural Amigos da Mobilidade – Portugal
The project will
- develop an efficient intercultural training in view of the challenges youth mobility faces from the practice, training, research and employer’s perspectives;
- remove the obstacles to successful youth mobility due to intercultural differences and misunderstanding;
- strengthen the position of intercultural competences in EU youth mobilities programmes as tool to maximize the benefits of the mobility.
The project addresses different actors involved in EU mobilities
- SMEs and similar organizations hosting mobilities, intermediaries facilitating EU mobilities and EU mobilities sending organizations;
- Learners that are involved in EU mobilities;
- EU mobilities networks, VET institutions and VET system in EU countries. In a broader sense SMEs working with international partners and SMEs employing diverse workforce can also be regarded as beneficiaries of project results.
Expected outcomes
- Learning content – a training textbook with 9 different modules on intercultural interaction incl. topics like host country culture, culture shock, intercultural communication – language & paralanguage, conflict management and de-escalation, specifics of intercultural counselling and organisations, etc.
- Handbook for SMEs – a short focused methodological document that will guide SMEs how to use the Learning content materials. It will comprise the most important tips and will also function as a teaser to read the full content.
- InterMobil website – it will comprise all developed learning materials, the Handbook for SMEs, useful links to other projects or sites with similar content and other interesting materials on intercultural communication
- Prototype workshops – organised in the second project year to test the developedLearning content with target groups’ representatives and to gather their feedback on further improving the training materials.
- Conferences – organised in the last quarter of the project to present and promote InterMobil final outputs to the general audience and all stakeholders
All materials will be available in six languages: EN, DE, IT, BG, ES, PT