📅 Apply by: 23 April 2025 (12 PM CET)
📅 Course runs: 28 April – 16 June 2025
About the course
This short course is fully online and is designed for bachelor's and master's students.
Communicating across cultural differences is becoming increasingly important for young people when studying and entering the labour market. With this training, we aim to build knowledge among students to understand how their own cultures influence their behaviour and values and how friction can arise when interacting with people from other cultures. The focus of the training is on understanding your own and other cultures, as well as on thinking about and developing skills to overcome and mitigate cultural differences and use them to improve teamwork. Participants will work in groups and create case studies to explore these topics in depth.
At the end of the course, participants will:
- Have awareness of the modes of dissemination and value of research dissemination.
- Understand how to translate research outcomes into policy briefs, based on existing master thesis research outcomes.
- Understand the key criteria for a good policy brief
- Increase their skill in policy brief writing
- Increase their skill in peer reviewing, by providing feedback to other policy briefs
- Understand what dissemination actually can look like after completing the brief.
Timeline
April 28 - Course starts: Students have access to the learning platform, where they will find the lecture and readings they need to watch and read before the first synchronous session.
May 6 - Introductory session and role play in groups.
May 12 – Intervision session: Students share personal experiences related to intercultural relations, which serve as a starting point to work on the case study.
May 12 – June 15: During this time, students will work with their groups on the case study, with the guidance of the Mentors. Students need to report progress by uploading partial submissions to the learning platform.
June 16 – Final session: Students share their finished case studies and role-play the cases of other groups.
For questions, please contact vis@merit.unu.edu
