Non-Formal Learning in Higher Education: Developing Intercultural Competence (Uni&NFL)

The seminar will be an opportunity to review the project’s progress (the project’s origins go back to 2011) and to review its framework considering newest developments in the field of Intercultural Competence (ICC) and current European Union policy priorities, including diversity, inclusion, migration and asylum issues. Project objectives: - To introduce non-formal education and international cooperation into higher education; - To develop intercultural competence of future youth workers and teachers to improve the quality of youth work - To encourage the use of Erasmus+ Youth Programme in working with young people. Seminar objectives: 1. To share the context, ideas, resources and outcomes of national project activities 2. To identify ways of improving the recognition of Intercultural Competence (ICC) and NFL (Non-formal learning) within Higher Education 3. To develop the project’s sustainability notably through the establishment of a network /community of practice 4. To review the concept of ICC within the European Training Strategy (ETS) 5. To evaluate the 2015-2016 phase of the project Target groups of the seminar: - Trainers involved in the national project activities - Staff of Higher Education Institutions and other providers of youth worker education and training, interested in the development of Intercultural Competence and use of non-formal methods - Trainers and facilitators involved in developing Intercultural Competence in non-formal education - NA representatives/Coordinators Participants should be available to actively attend the full duration of the seminar, motivated to prepare themselves before the seminar, aged 18+ and able to communicate and work in English. This seminar is open to residents of the Erasmus+ Programme Countries participating in the project: Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, Poland, Turkey and the UK. Date & venue (tbc): The seminar will take place in Birmingham, United Kingdom, between the 19th and 23rd of April 2016 (participants are expected to arrive on 19 April by 2 PM; departures are planned on the 23 April after lunch).