AFS Germany has just launched a new consulting branch offering trainings, workshops and consultancy for educational institutions, organizations and enterprises in need of better handling with and enhanced understanding of other cultures.

InterCultur is a subsidiary of AFS Interkulturelle Begegnungen e.V. and therewith part of the oldest and worldwide biggest organization for intercultural exchanges. Over 60 years of experience in pedagogical supervision of intercultural encounters and situations stand for InterCultur’s know-how. Like AFS Germany, InterCultur is a not-for-profit institution as well and also serves the AFS Mission.

InterCultur focuses on intercultural learning for understanding and acting, and combining a sound scientific basis with practice. Given the ongoing globalization, intercultural competence is becoming more and more a key skill (see previous post about this), and InterCultur offers services oriented towards intercultural competence, focusing on intercultural mediation.

Among the services offered by InterCultur are seminars and workshops for schools and universities, corporations, associations and enterprises, advice and know-how customized for specific intercultural projects and the two Summer Academies, one in Germany and another one in Malaysia. InterCultur’s work is based on experiential learning, using activities such as simulations, case studies, small group tasks, group discussions and role plays, always with an intercultural content. The exchange and personal interaction between participants and trainers also play an important role in trainings and workshops.

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