Pluricultural and social skills & competences
These skills are directly related to your integration and inclusion in the community life (workplace, neighbourhood associations, sports, city ...). They are especially important because they enable the integration of acquired skills in other fields. These skills are those that will enhance the value of your mobility experience and differentiate your curriculum from others.
Trustworthiness and ethics, friendly attitude, integrity and sensitive, empathy, confidence in people from other cultures
- Working in group, cooperatively, with people from different cultures
- Identifying cultural issues that present barriers to teamwork with workmates and then defending strategies to manage these issues.
- Sharing goals in a multicultural team
- Collaborating successfully in a different background team
- Recognising and understanding various cultural worldviews, beliefs and explanatory models.
- Studying habits and customs
- Developing an appreciation for ethnic diversity, religious practices, food preferences, family values, health beliefs, and neighbourhood community programs
- Identifying when religious or traditional views may influence the client’s/ student's/ customer's/ workmates participation
- Identifying when religious or traditional views may influence in people decision or opinion
- Understanding various health or educational systems and practices.
- Learning to determine clients’ and students’ needs within the context of their culture.
- Understanding other cultures in order to avoid misunderstandings and to communicate and work together successfully
- learning the meaning of slang and local expressions
- Leading those groups that are underrepresented; negotiating and networking among providers to help family in achieving adequate services. Setting objectives.
- Helping people from different cultures
- Understanding the problematic of political refugees and asylum seekers in ...
- Developing and demonstrating the ability to empathize and care for clients and students from diverse racial/ethnic groups.
- Developing “cultural humility,” the ability to regard clients/ students as cultural informants.
- Solving conflicts in a xenophobic situation
- Identifying and devising solutions for culturally related problems.
- Diminishing or erase cultural conflicts
- Adapting my customs and habits to a new culture
- Recognising & respecting different perspectives.
Situations (during my mobility experience)
- in contexts of cultural diversity
- in a diverse local environment
- in an Erasmus +/Lifelong Learning Programme Project
- Training in a local (basketball) team
- Sharing a flat with people from other cultures
- Living and interacting in a multicultural neighbourhood
- Living and interacting daily with members of a district with a great cultural diversity
- Working with people from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds
- Attending a school with cultural diversity
- Living in a district with a great number of immigrants
- Working in an NGO
- Volunteer work
- Participating in the activities of refugee clinics
- Attending a training course about …..
- In my professional environment
- Being a College Welfare Representative
- Dealing with patients/children.
- Living with local roommates
- Working for a multi-national organization
- Volunteering internationally.