Intercultural Communication (ICC)
Encounters between people with different cultural backgrounds are part of everyday life at an internationally oriented university. In our interactive workshops, you will strengthen your intercultural competence and expand your communicative scope of action.
Workshops in winter semester 2024/2025:
- 15.11.2024, 16:00-19:15, presence (in German)
- 22.11.2024, 16:00-19:15, presence (in German)
- 02.12.2024, 16:00-19:15, presence (in English)
Target Group: for all nominated Erasmus and TUMexchange exchange students
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Content: What happens, when you leave your normal surroundings behind and ventures out into a new and different world? How do you learn to adjust? Good intercultural communication skills are a prerequisite for professional success in our global world today. In order for you to make the most out of your international exchange, TUM offers you this intercultural training course, with the goal of enhancing this important skill set. Throughout interactive self-awareness exercises, role plays and phases for reflection, you will experience yourself as a culture bound individual. You will anticipate what „Culture Blues“ might feel like and learn techniques to analyse interculturally challenging situations competently and effectively, while developing functional communicative strategies.
Workshop in winter semester 2024/2025:
- 18.10.2024, 25.10.2024, 16:00-19:15, presence (in English)
Target group: international students
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Content: How do the traditions of teaching and learning in an academic environment differ from one culture to another? Which conventions exist regarding the communication between professors, lecturers and students during, before and after lectures? These and many other questions surrounding studying at a German university will be covered from an intercultural perspective in this half day seminar (5hrs). The seminar serves to deepen your knowledge about Germany and the Germans and also reflect on ways in which you may encounter intercultural differences in university life. You will also enhance your understanding for interculturally challenging communicative situations with professors, fellow students and advisors and become acquainted with tools to deal with “culture blues” or “culture shock”.
Workshops in winder semester 2024/2025:
- 25.11.2024, 28.11.2024, 02.12.2024, 04.12.2024, 16:00-18:30 (in English)
- 14.01.2025, 21.01.2025, 28.01.2025, 16:00-19:15 (in English)
Target group: students in all areas of engineering, especially students who are currently on exchange, or will be in the next semester at a EuroTeQ partner university
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Content: Future engineers are required to coordinate interdisciplinary projects and collaborate with specialists from other domains. Aside from professional know how, successful engineering in a European context requires excellent intercultural communication skills and competences. But what exactly are the ingredients for successful cooperation in multicultural settings? The workshops of the EuroTeQ Engineering University focus on the intercultural agility that is crucial for studying and working in a multicultural environment.
Workshop in winter semester 2024/2025:
- 10.12.2024, 16:00-19:15, presence (in German)
Target group: all students and employees
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Content: In this seminar, we contemplate, among other things, the phenomenon of “reverse culture shock”. We apply intercultural theory and techniques to analyze and understand any experiences that may still be on your mind from your exchange experience. To prepare for your future as a “Global Citizen”, we develop strategies for successful intercultural cooperation in international projects and teams. Together, we will contemplate our cultural identity at the interface with the “other”. What are the next required steps on our way to intercultural competence? Where are we in our adaptation process and is there a risk of overadaptation?
Workshops in winter semester 2024/2025:
- 11.10.2024, 18.10.2024, 16:00-19:15, presence (in English)
Target group: all TUM students
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Content: How do traditions of teaching and learning in an academic environment differ from your culture to the German culture? Which conventions exist regarding communication between professors, lecturers and students during, before and after lectures? These and many other questions surrounding studying at a German university will be covered in this one day seminar (8hrs) from an intercultural perspective. This seminar is taught in English.
You deepen your knowledge about Germany and the Germans and also reflect on ways in which you may encounter intercultural differences in university life. You enhance your understanding for interculturally challenging communicative situations with professors, fellow students and advisors.You will also become acquainted with tools to deal with “culture blues” or “culture shock”.
Workshop in winter semester 2024/2025:
- 18.01.2025, 10:00-13:15; 24.01.2024, 16:00-19:15; 25.01.2024, 10:00-13:15; online
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Content: The workshop concerns the strategic and practical handling of cultural diversity, as well as questions of intercultural organizational development. Students are sensitized to intercultural situations and acquire actionable competencies for international work enviroments.
Will not take place in winter semester 2024/2025
Target group: for TUM staff with a confirmed application for an Erasmus Mobility exchange or for TUM staff who have already participated in an exchange and would like to reflect on their experiences in retrospect.
Content: Intercultural competence is an essential skill for successfully working in an international environment. Actively reflecting one’s own cultural identity plays an important part in developing cultural awareness. In order to gain most from your exchange program and to be able to integrate your intercultural experiences profitably into your daily work, TUM Language Center offers this half-day intercultural training course in cooperation with the International Center.
Workshops in winter semester 2024/2025:
- GAR, Thursdays, 09.01.-30.01.2025, 8:00-9:00
Target group: staff members working in intercultural teams interested in improving both their English and their intercultural communication
Registration: Form
Content: In this course, we discuss in English intercultural content and opportunities for miscommunication.
Workshops in winter semester 2024/2025:
- is identical to the workshop for students (see above)
Target group: all students and staff
Registration by mail to lechle(at)zv.tum.de
Content: In this seminar, we contemplate, among other things, the phenomenon of “reverse culture shock”. We apply intercultural theory and techniques to analyze and understand any experiences that may still be on your mind from your exchange experience. To prepare for your future as a “Global Citizen”, we develop strategies for successful intercultural cooperation in international projects and teams. Together, we will contemplate our cultural identity at the interface with the “other”. What are the next required steps on our way to intercultural competence? Where are we in our adaptation process and is there a risk of overadaptation?
Global Minds
In this series of events, we provide tips and advice on the application process for jobs and internships abroad. At each event, a specific target country is presented with its specific framework conditions and the associated application process.
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Tandem Learning
In our program TUMtandem, we will find you a language tandem partner within the TUM.
In some languages we also offer Tandem programs that give you the opportunity to get in touch with students from the TUM's partner universities.
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Film Series DIVERSITY
In cooperation with the HFF München we organize international film evenings. Here we show international films in the original language which can be discussed afterwards. You will get a chance to talk to people from a range of countries and cultures.
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