The Hochschule Konstanz/Germany – University of Applied Sciences offers the online knowledge community, Dialogin, which focuses on intercultural communication in business and management. Members have access to a wide range of materials such as book reviews, articles, and other relevant media by community members (among others, Fons Trompenaars is one of the publishers). Other opportunities include access to research articles in the field, calls for papers, courses, and forum discussions.

The best part? Thanks to generous funding by its corporate and individual sponsors, membership at Dialogin is free of charge! It is open to everyone who works in international business and management, as well as to university researchers, teachers, students, intercultural trainers, and consultants.

The online platform was first presented at the SIETAR Europa Congress in Brussels in 2000, and now, with more than 4000 members from around the world, it works to meet its ultimate goal of contributing to the improvement in competence in the field of communication and cooperation in international business and management. In 2010, it was relaunched in its current form.

The upcoming Global Leadership Competence Conference taking place this June in Konstanz, Germany  is one of the many ways AFSers and others involved in the field can meet experts and engage in discussions around the competencies required to lead people and organizations in successful communication across cultures.

Click here to join dialogin and take advantage of this online source as you create connections between new ideas, theories and our day-to-day intercultural experiences.