Projects

2015: Brandenburg Quality of Teaching Award of 2015 (2nd place) for Stefanie Vogler -Lipp in the category “Dealing with cultural differences“

Since 2013: “Quality initiative intercultural competence for the German-French Univer-sity“ (with several cooperation partners)

Since 2012: PeerTutoring Educational Pro-gram Viadrina PeerTutoring (funded by the Fe-deral ministry of Education and Research)

2010 – 2012: Schreiben(d) lernen im Team – Intercultural writing teams at the university

2011: Euroregion Project: Integration through competences – Intercultural competences for the border region

2009 – 2010: PeerNet – Training for students as integration coaches

Dr. Gundula Gwenn Hiller scientific director

Stefanie Vogler-Lipp (M. A.) research assistant

Contact August-Bebel-Str. 12 (AB 102) D-15234 Frankfurt (Oder) Germanyphone: +49 335 5534 2442e-Mail: zil@europa-uni.de www.europa-uni.de/interkulturelleslernen

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The European-University Viadrina is well -suited for intercultural learning and research due to its location on the German-Polish bor-der, the high percentage of international stu-dents and its study programs.

The Center for Intercultural Learning (CIL) was launched as part of an initiative, which included the development of an intercultu-ral skills program for the entire university. The goal was to encourage those who are related to the university to be more interculturally awa-re as well as to integrate international students better. This responds to our principle that in-tercultural communication, cooperation and integration can only thrive in an intercultural competent institution.

“Intercultural competence means learning from and together with each other, approaching new concepts and seeing the world with open eyes.“

(Nicola Meyer, intercultural peer tutor 2015/16)

Our recent publications

Our offers

• Intercultural trainings und workshops

• Intercultural counselling

• Cultural sciences seminars covering intercultural issues

Meanwhile the CIL has assumed a pioneering role as an institution that is located at the boundary between research and practice of intercultural le-arning in an internationalized university context.

Cooperation partners – Networks

• DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)

• DFH (German-French University)

• University didactic networks

• Intercultural campus

• National universities and universities abroad

• Program “Lehren “

The CIL is a decentralized institution and co-operates internally both with faculties and the Writing Center as well as the Center for key com-petences and research-oriented learning and the International Office. We see ourselves as a skill center and part of a network, which trans-fers knowledge and communicates actively with other universities and institutions by attending conferences, training and common projects.

Exchange on “Viadrina Culture“

Practice Teaching Research Resources

Intercultural training,workshops und study trips

Seminars at the Faculty ofSocial and Cultural Science(BA/MA)

Acquisition of interculturalcompetences at institutionsof higher education

Handbook, articles andother research-basedpublications

Educational programs inthe field of interculturallearning for students

Practice-oriented seminarsfor all faculties at Viadrina

Communication within theinstitutions of higher educationconsidering the influence of interna-tionalization and diversity

Intercultural training films with Critical Incidents, e.g. short films about the German- French university context

PeerTutoring Educational Program, guidance and peer counseling conducted by intercultural peer tutors

Innovative Learning formats, e.g. international online-lecture series,virtual classroom-seminars & cross-teaching

Teaching and studying inthe international context

Intercultural exercises andwork material

The program received the BMW Life Award for InterculturalLearning in 2007.