
Intercultural Learning and Cultural Diversity in education
Overview
We live in a society where migrations and the consequent encounter and clash among different cultures has become extremely relevant and shall be at the top of public stakeholders’ priorities.
One of the biggest challenges for teachers and the education system is to be equipped to face newly arrived students, who may have experienced great distress and confront obstacles in adjusting to a new cultural environment.
Promoting intercultural education and training intercultural competences becomes therefore crucial tomanage the encounter and possible conflicts arising from cultural differences.
Target Audience
This course is addressed to teachers, trainers, educational counsellors, career counsellors, school psychologists, headmasters, school management and administrative staff working in primary schools, secondary schools, vocational schools, training centres, adult education schools, higher education, kindergarten and NGOs. Please mind that the course may include teachers from different school levels.
Languages
The course is held in English.
For groups with at least 8 participants, we can organize an ad-hoc session in a different language. Please write an email to
info@erasmuslearningacademy.eu
to get more information about it.
| Location | Starting Date | Ending Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Athens | 20/09/2026 | 26/09/2026 | Fully booked |
| Palermo | 11/10/2026 | 17/10/2026 | Open for Enrollment |
| Tenerife | 25/10/2026 | 31/10/2026 | Open for Enrollment |
| Porto | 06/12/2026 | 12/12/2026 | Open for Enrollment |
| Bologna | 10/01/2027 | 16/01/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Palermo | 10/01/2027 | 16/01/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Tenerife | 10/01/2027 | 16/01/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Palermo | 21/03/2027 | 27/03/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Zagreb | 21/03/2027 | 27/03/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Porto | 04/04/2027 | 10/04/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Athens | 04/04/2027 | 10/04/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Tenerife | 02/05/2027 | 08/05/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Bologna | 06/06/2027 | 12/06/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Palermo | 04/07/2027 | 10/07/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Tenerife | 01/08/2027 | 07/08/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Bologna | 29/08/2027 | 04/09/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Porto | 29/08/2027 | 04/09/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Athens | 29/08/2027 | 04/09/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Zagreb | 19/09/2027 | 25/09/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Palermo | 10/10/2027 | 16/10/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Tenerife | 07/11/2027 | 13/11/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Bologna | 14/11/2027 | 20/11/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
| Lisbon | 14/11/2027 | 20/11/2027 | Open for Enrollment |
Skills
What do you will learn?
Modelling empathic, critically-thinking and open minds contributes to shape welcoming school environments, where cultural diversity is promoted and celebrated, and the first step towards bringing social change and inclusive societies.
Participating in this course teachers and education staff will share and discuss challenges, best practices and strategies to facing, acknowledging and celebrating interculturality in the classroom.
Learning Outcomes
This course aims to help teachers to develop their cultural awareness while giving them the tools and new approaches to cater to a multicultural and ethnically diverse group of students.
Thanks to this course, the participants will:
Understanding Stereotypes and Cultural Awareness
Confront personal prejudices and stereotypes while improving cultural awareness and intercultural competences.
Exploring Diverse Perspectives and Educational Approaches
Use simulation exercises and storytelling to value different viewpoints, and learn new strategies for teaching in culturally diverse classrooms.
Teacher’s Role in Integration and Best Practices
Understand the role of teachers in integrating immigrant or foreign students, while exchanging good practices and discussing challenges with colleagues and trainers.
Daily Program
Please find below the standard indicative daily programme that will be personalized on participants needs and professional profiles. Our standard program comprises 7 days of course, of which the first one is dedicated to networking, preparation and cultural immersion and the last one to follow up, specific needs and cultural activities.
Please note that we always do our best to accommodate the specific needs of our participants in a flexible way, including but not limited to budget restrictions and travel arrangement. Participants can choose to arrive 1 day before the start of the course and/or leave one day after the end of it in order to enjoy a deeper cultural immersion. Upon specific request we can organize longer or shorter versions of this course.
| Sunday | – Participants arrival – Orientation and information about the venue and the city – Networking activities – Walking tour in the venue’s city | ||
| Monday | – Course introduction – Teambuilding exercises – Needs and expectations evaluation – An everyday more multicultural and diverse class: new challenges in a changing and globalized society – Exploring concepts of Identity and Culture and discovering how they affect the learning process – Sharing experiences and challenges in working in multicultural schools | ||
| Tuesday | - Morning wrap-up – Becoming aware of cultural patterns and taking them into consideration when planning the lessons - Stereotypes and prejudices and their role in the perception process – Practical activities and hands-on experiences to improve cultural awareness and confront personal prejudices – Cultural activities in the venue’s city | ||
| Wednesday | – Morning wrap-up – Storytelling and simulation exercises: a concrete way to fight stereotypes and to develop intercultural abilities – Practicing, designing and delivering storytelling and simulation exercises – Optional cultural visit outside the venue’s city | ||
| Thursday | – Morning wrap-up – Exploring concepts of membership and relationships – The importance of discovering Empathy and its role shaping human relationships – Visit to a local institution active in the field of multiculturalism, integration of refugee and migrants, offering intercultural educational path | ||
| Friday | – Morning wrap-up – The extra benefit of using non-formal education methods in a multicultural environment – How to foster students’ inclusion, tolerance and intercultural awareness through non-formal, informal and experiential learning activities – Practicing, designing and delivering non-formal activities and tools – Farewell dinner | ||
| Saturday | – Space for discussion of future cooperation and planning follow up activities – Course roundup and final evaluation – Validation of learning outcomes and certification ceremony – Additional training session tailored to specific needs (optional) – Participants departure |
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Other relevant facts
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We tailor the working methods based upon participants’ needs, attitudes and professional profiles in order to ensure high productivity, effectiveness and transferability into practice.
The standard methodology is highly practical and participative with hands-on approach that comprises real-job examples, case studies examination and simulations.
We embrace collaboratively working methods that foster mutual learning and cooperation among participants. Our focus is on learning in an interactive and international environment knowledge applicable to the real contexts and/or in the classroom. The pedagogical methods that we use are based upon experiential training, group and peer activities, learning-by-doing and best practices’ exchange. They include visits with local schools and institutions allowing the participants to better understand the local education system as well as exchange ideas and contacts.
Morning Wrap-up and brief daily evaluations are foreseen to ensure quality of education and to adapt the learning programme to participants’ needs better tailoring the education.
We organize optional social, networking and cultural activities in order to give participants the opportunity to know Italy as well as to exchange best-practice and establish professional cooperation and links.
The training and staff team is multinational thus giving a full European dimension to the course.
Costs and Erasmus+ Funding
Teachers, trainers, headmasters and any other staff of education organizations are eligible to receive an Erasmus+ grant covering all the costs to attend our training courses including travel, board and lodging, cultural activities and all fees. Our training courses are tailored to be fully funded by Erasmus+ and we offer different options to ensure the best comfort and quality at a price that is within the Erasmus+ grant.
We are proud to tailor our training courses to both participants’ learning and practical needs and to ease your participation at our training courses, we will gladly take care of all the practical arrangements. If you prefer, you can take care of some of the practical arrangements by yourself (e.g. meals, local transport…), though we will manage the organization of your accommodation in order to ensure optimal logistic organization, safety and time-efficiency. We always provide board and lodging in the same hotel in which we organize the course thus ensuring optimal comfort and potential of networking with the fellow participants. Read more about how we take care of your subsistence and practical arrangements.
The most common option that we offer to schools and organisations in 2025 costs 1405 EUR in Bologna, 1330 EUR in Tenerife and Thessaloniki and 1225 EUR in Palermo, Porto and Rimini and includes course fee, certification and support fee, accommodation in single room, 2 coffee breaks per day, walking tour in the venue’s city, a sum-up dissemination video. The standard option in Bologna, Tenerife and Thessaloniki includes all meals from Sunday lunch to Saturday lunch, while in Palermo, Porto and Rimini includes all breakfasts and three networking meals in local restaurants. Few of our courses include extra services and activities hence having a different pricing option, which will be communicated upon receiving the pre-registration.
Prices shown may vary for specific courses that include extra services or visits to schools and associations. More detailed pricing information for each course is available upon request or at the time of enrolment.
For schools sending 2 or more participants we can offer accommodation in double rooms and we can provide as well accommodation for people or relatives accompanying the participants.
When attending our courses, we recommend you to request 9 days of individual support for your subsistence costs, 7 days for the course plus 2 additional days for the travel. In this way you can have more flexibility in planning your stay and you can enjoy all the cultural activities planned from the first to the last day of course. You can read here more about the Erasmus+ funding. Shall you have need any help with filling the budget during the application stage or have any problem with your grant please let us know and we will see how to support you.
Certification and Validation of learning outcomes
At the end of the course, each participant will be awarded a certificate of attendance, together – if requested – with the Europass Mobility Certificate.
The certificate are in line with the Erasmus Quality Standards and include a short description of the course and its learning outcomes, dates, venues, the name of the course provider and the course instructor(s).
We support the participants in every step of certification and validation of learning outcomes with specific focus on European instruments and Erasmus plus requirements such as staff mobility/learning agreement, quality commitment and Europass mobility certificate.
We experienced that schools and education organizations may require additional documents to certify the competences learned or the presence in the training course. Upon request we can provide additional certification and reporting documents as well as we provide photos of the training course and a sum-up video that can be used for visibility and dissemination purposes.
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