Including more intercultural aspects in supervision and coaching Erasmus Project

Project Title

Including more intercultural aspects in supervision and coaching

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Culture determines our options for action in many areas of our lives. In the first six years we learn how to deal with difficulties and problems, how to solve conflicts, make decisions and initiate solutions. In all these and many other areas, the culture in which we grow up plays an important role. It shapes the way we think and act. Supervision and coaching are two consulting approaches that can help to question and reflect on existing structures of thoughts and action. Therefore, intercultural skills are important requirements for coaches and supervisors, which have hardly been explicitly formulated so far.

This project is an encounter and exchange project that aims to shed light on the “best practice” of intercultural competence in coaching and supervision. The six project partners from five countries want to exchange their approaches, questions, successes and failures and bring them together in a reader. The results will then be discussed with a wider audience in articles and workshops at congresses and conferences, as well as in the social media. The main focus will be on projects that deal with intercultural aspects, especially with socially disadvantaged groups, migrants and persecuted persons.

Furthermore, a catalogue of criteria on the topic of intercultural competence will be developed for the training curricula of the training institutes. Which methods and forms are useful and should be integrated? How can digital and blended learning be integrated?

The aim is to sharpen the interest and attention, or rather the awareness, for intercultural aspects and to have them brought into the discussion. With this project, we hope to increase the development of network structures that will make it possible for coaches and supervisors to understand the importance of intercultural competence more clearly, and to provide coaches and supervisors with tools that will enable them to offer more services to socially disadvantaged groups, migrants and persecuted persons.

Furthermore, clear instructions for the training of coaches and supervisors and the inclusion of intercultural competence should be developed.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 93500 Eur

Project Coordinator

INITA Institut für angewandte Psychologie, Transaktionsanalyse und Erwachsenenbildung GmbH & Country: DE

Project Partners

• BilingualSolutions Institute GmbH
• Cesky institut pro supervizi
• Antares Csoport Humánerőforrás-fejlesztő Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság
• Asociación Navarra Mitxelena para la supervisión y el desarrollo personal