Transnational competences as a catalyst for an intercultural adult curricula

The profile of participants for this mobility includes:

• All adult educators from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, and Croatia, who are directly involved in teaching learners, from different departments of the organization.
• Adult educators from partner organizations who are low skilled in intercultural competences when addressing learners and report a lack of knowledge in the mentioned content of the training.
• Adult educators from partner organization who are highly motivated to participate in the training.

1. A broader understanding of the concept of “culture”
2. Learning to understand human work in the space of creation of inter-human relations as well as works of their arts.
3. Study the different meanings of culture and it’s all different forms.
4. Understanding the meaning of diversity and its appliance in our modern society.
5. Major and minor cultures, social inclusion and exclusion. Showing a basis that European cultures have a tendency to exclude other cultures by their dominant effect on the world’s history and creating the division between the so-called modern world and 3rd world countries.
6. Analyzing problems in the societies: creating and perpetuation of stereotypes as forms of exclusion, judging by a set of predefined characteristics as a dominant step in exclusion of some types of cultures, focus on the differences rather than common features, which should be understood as openness to the “other and unknown”.
7. Cultural relativism/ distinction of cultures, which tells one that you cannot use the values and norms of one culture to evaluate other cultures.

Such goals will be achieved through participation in:

• conferences/seminars held by experts in the field of equal opportunities, culture knowledge, community, and social inclusion;
• workshops/round tables/ working groups where the activities will be carried out by the same participants, only being supervised by the aforementioned experts.
• in-the-field visits to local institutions and local government.