Intercultural awareness is essential for avoiding misunderstandings and misperceptions and allowing for open dialogue between people of mixed cultural backgrounds, particularly if they are supposed to jointly solve problems in a work or educational context.

This training aims at promoting intercultural awareness through a mix of input, games and exercises. With a fun and easy approach to the issue we allow for a reflection of one’s own perceptions and behavioural patterns, and at the same time encourage open and lively discussion between people from different backgrounds.

There are games and other activities in which the entire group participates, but also discussions in smaller groups in which those not willing to speak in front of large groups can articulate their thoughts, and in which more sensitive and delicate questions can be addressed.

After the workshop, students should have gained some insights into:
­ what cultural differences are,
­ how they are a matter of perception,
­ what problems they could encounter in other cultural environments and possible ways of dealing with them