Intercultool – developing a framework model and assessment tool of intercultural competence

General Information
Leading Organisation/Person: 
Artemisszio Foundation
Location(s): 
Budapest, Hungary
Type of best practice: 
Publication
Brief description: 

The key to understand multicultural situations and resolve potential conflicts is self assessment and development.

Specific Information
Strategic field: 
Education and Youth
Geographical coverage: 
National
Target Groups: 
Migrants
Main Objectives: 

1. Learning skills and openness to the new and to changes.
2. Ability to manage situations of increased stress.
3. Ability to interact with and adapt to others.
4. Awareness of the relativity of cultural values – realising the coexistence of many different perspectives and value systems without privileging any one over the others
5. Application of relativity – ability to realize our own cultural motives and
adapt them.

Beneficiaries: 

The assessment tool was developed for teachers and trainers of the for-profit and not for profit sectors as well as in vocational training and professional development.
Within these sectors, those working in multicultural environment or preparing for a placement abroad can especially benefit from the tool, by assessing their training needs and the methods best suited to address their needs. It seems particularly important to include the development of intercultural skills within the training of these professionals, for which Intercultool can be a point of reference

Main Outcomes: 

• Consciousize our unconscious worldview
• Understand our acts and thoughts and their cultural motives
• Become more open and receptive towards others and ourselves
• Be more effective in culturally diverse situations
• Minimize the stress when facing differences.

Samples
Links to external websites: 
http://test.intercultool.eu
Contact Information
First name: 
Balázs
Surname: 
Kiss
Phone Number: 
00 36 1 413 6517
Fax Number: 
00 36 1 413 6516
Street Address: 
11 Rökk Szilard utca
Additional Line 1: 
City: 
Budapest
Postal Code: 
H-1085
Country: 
Hungary
E-mail: 
intercultool@artemisszio.hu