Intercultural and Transcultural Competence Through Collaborative Cultural Expression (INTRACOMP)
Main funder
Funder's project number: 101177351
Funds granted by main funder (€)
- 284 812,50
Funding program
Project timetable
Project start date: 01/02/2025
Project end date: 31/01/2028
Summary
Maintaining social inclusion, diversity and cohesion amidst the unprecedented speed and
scale of forced migration has emerged as a critical concern for the future of Europe and
advancing intercultural competence as an urgent educational issue. By scaffolding
intercultural activity as a competence, individuals can increasingly recognize and accept
difference in others, and therefore better engage in a pluralist society that respects and
promotes multiple ways of being. But is intercultural competence enough? The
exponential speed and scale of forced migration (from within and beyond Europe) brings
new mandates for culture and cultural learning. The INTRACOMP consortium therefore
argues that while gaining intercultural competence is a key developmental goal, all
children and adults are further enabled to navigate the acculturative stress associated
with forced migration when they possess a transcultural competence. This involves a
purposeful desire and ability to collaboratively engage with culturally diverse people in
innovative, meaningful, complex and temporary expressions, as a means of promoting
positive socio-cultural interdependence. Life-Long Learning activities within Cultural
Awareness and Expression present particularly dynamic opportunities to accelerate this
transcultural competence, through experiences that enable individuals and organizations
to re-imagine the meanings and boundaries of culture. Understanding how such a
sophisticated competence is developed, evidenced and assessed, at both an individual
and organizational level, is critical if we are to establish the societal conditions for
transculturalism to flourish. This significant research and innovation need emerged within
the transdisciplinary INTRACOMP consortium, through dialogue amongst inclusive arts
organizations in the south and east of Europe engaged in the front line of mass forced
migration. In Greece, Serbia, Hungary, Slovakia and Italy, along with partner organizations
in Palestine, Cambodia and Papua New Guinea, these community-focused cultural centres
have spent decades purposefully focusing on the creative interplay of cultural difference.
The collaborative outcomes of each of these organizations effectively illustrate how
transcultural interactions advance the “Beautiful”, “Sustainable” and “Together” ambitions
of the New European Bauhaus, by integrating, regenerating and transforming
communities through cultural activity. The pedagogic practices of these organizations
further underpin a “cultural courage for change”, enabling children and adults to
participate in a more resilient European culture. INTRACOMP therefore provides a location
through which to explore, refine and upscale these practices, by bringing together
academic and practitioner expertise in non-formal and formal education,
inclusive/community arts, refugee studies, indigenous studies, policy studies, cultural
studies and digital design. Through this transcontinental, transdisciplinary approach,
INTRACOMP will co-design an innovative, culturally relevant and meaningful assessment
framework for evidencing, reviewing, refining and scaffolding the intercultural
competence and transcultural competence of individuals and organisations that are
active in Cultural Awareness and Expression.
scale of forced migration has emerged as a critical concern for the future of Europe and
advancing intercultural competence as an urgent educational issue. By scaffolding
intercultural activity as a competence, individuals can increasingly recognize and accept
difference in others, and therefore better engage in a pluralist society that respects and
promotes multiple ways of being. But is intercultural competence enough? The
exponential speed and scale of forced migration (from within and beyond Europe) brings
new mandates for culture and cultural learning. The INTRACOMP consortium therefore
argues that while gaining intercultural competence is a key developmental goal, all
children and adults are further enabled to navigate the acculturative stress associated
with forced migration when they possess a transcultural competence. This involves a
purposeful desire and ability to collaboratively engage with culturally diverse people in
innovative, meaningful, complex and temporary expressions, as a means of promoting
positive socio-cultural interdependence. Life-Long Learning activities within Cultural
Awareness and Expression present particularly dynamic opportunities to accelerate this
transcultural competence, through experiences that enable individuals and organizations
to re-imagine the meanings and boundaries of culture. Understanding how such a
sophisticated competence is developed, evidenced and assessed, at both an individual
and organizational level, is critical if we are to establish the societal conditions for
transculturalism to flourish. This significant research and innovation need emerged within
the transdisciplinary INTRACOMP consortium, through dialogue amongst inclusive arts
organizations in the south and east of Europe engaged in the front line of mass forced
migration. In Greece, Serbia, Hungary, Slovakia and Italy, along with partner organizations
in Palestine, Cambodia and Papua New Guinea, these community-focused cultural centres
have spent decades purposefully focusing on the creative interplay of cultural difference.
The collaborative outcomes of each of these organizations effectively illustrate how
transcultural interactions advance the “Beautiful”, “Sustainable” and “Together” ambitions
of the New European Bauhaus, by integrating, regenerating and transforming
communities through cultural activity. The pedagogic practices of these organizations
further underpin a “cultural courage for change”, enabling children and adults to
participate in a more resilient European culture. INTRACOMP therefore provides a location
through which to explore, refine and upscale these practices, by bringing together
academic and practitioner expertise in non-formal and formal education,
inclusive/community arts, refugee studies, indigenous studies, policy studies, cultural
studies and digital design. Through this transcontinental, transdisciplinary approach,
INTRACOMP will co-design an innovative, culturally relevant and meaningful assessment
framework for evidencing, reviewing, refining and scaffolding the intercultural
competence and transcultural competence of individuals and organisations that are
active in Cultural Awareness and Expression.
Principal Investigator
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Follow-up groups
- Finnish Institute for Educational Research (Finnish Institute for Educational Research KTL) KTL
- School of Resource Wisdom (University of Jyväskylä JYU) JYU.Wisdom
- School of Wellbeing (University of Jyväskylä JYU) JYU.Well
- Teacher education research (teaching, learning, teacher, learning paths, education) (University of Jyväskylä JYU) JYU.Edu; Formerly JYU.Ope
Profiling area: School of Resource Wisdom (University of Jyväskylä JYU) JYU.Wisdom; School of Wellbeing (University of Jyväskylä JYU) JYU.Well
