Learning Outcome
Name of the unit: Acquisition of intercultural competences
Qualification: Acquisition of intercultural competences
Professional area: General Competences
EQF-level: 4
Level of the participant: Beginner
Description of the unit: Through the internship abroad, the learner will be confronted with foreign habits, ways of interaction, and social structures. By that, he/she will adjust the own perspective and behaviour to the hosting culture.
Knowledge
The beneficiary is able to...
- improve and apply his/her English language skills.
- improve and apply his/her foreign language skills (if different from English).
Competences
The beneficiary is able to...
- accommodate himself/herself in a new and foreign environment.
- strengthen his/her openmindedness towards foreign cultures through steady confrontations with a foreign everyday life.
- develop an understanding for different reactions and habits through the ongoing negotiation of cultural issues in a foreign culture.
- overcome communication barriers by independently using non-verbal forms of communication as well as by consodering different cultural backgrounds.