EMIC – Erasmus Mundus Intercultural Competence

EMIC Toolkit

The EMIC Toolkit is an Open Education Resource that is scalable, customisable and useful for all European higher education programmes to support students developing Intercultural Competence. The EMIC Learning Programme is composed of face-to-face and online activities that are detailed in the EMIC Toolkit. By following the proposed activities you can implement the EMIC...

EM intercultural life

Nearly all respondents (93,37%) indicated that there were situations where they had experienced intercultural issues during their EM courses. Various intercultural issues in different situations and contexts during the EM period were noted.

Forecasted impact

The project will improve student experience in international EM programmes, through improved services. This will be achieved through supporting the development EM students’ intercultural competence, focusing beyond intellectual

EMIC team

The EMIC learning programme will create an unique environment for sharing experiences and strengthening bonds with other colleagues, and fostering a support network for future intercultural experiences and professional contacts.

What is the project about?

The Erasmus Mundus Intercultural Competence (EMIC) project is a research project funded by the European Commission Action 3 funds to support Erasmus Mundus initiatives. The project hat aims to explore intercultural issues Erasmus Mundus students are facing and to develop an integrated learning programme that will help students deal with issues of cultural diversity and enable them to use intercultural contexts to their advantage. The EMIC Learning programme will create a unique environment for developing intercultural competence, sharing experiences and strengthening bonds with other colleagues, and fostering a network for future intercultural experiences and professional contacts. The project will result in an EMIC Toolkit that will contain a set of open-source tools for supporting activities aimed at developing intercultural competence, based on the EMIC Learning programme.

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