Intercultural competence is understood as the ability to mobilise and deploy relevant attitudes, skills and knowledge in order to interact effectively and appropriately in different intercultural situations. (D.K. Deardoff, The SAGE book of intercultural competence; CoE, Competences for democratic culture). See more here.

The Toolbox activities should be combined together in an overall pedagogical project aimed at intercultural learning, based on the identified needs of the school, and not conducted as one-off activities, eg. students should develop their intercultural competence through a mix of learning mobility experiences, cross-curricular activities and subject specific activities.

The Toolbox activities refer to competences which are subdivided into 4 different groups: values, attitudes, skills and knowledge. The competences were taken from the model outlined in the competence framework called « Competences for democratic culture. Living together as equal in culturally diverse democratic societies » designed by the Council of Europe.

The Toolbox activities should be run in cooperation with out-of-school educational organisations promoting active citizenship and volunteering. Here you can access a list of organisations that you might want to involve.

Including intercultural learning in all aspects of the school life. This means that the activities of the toolbox are meant to be conducted with the cooperation and involvement of all the stakeholders within the school and in the local community, eg. teachers and students, parents, non-formal education organisations expert on intercultural learning and mobility.

the Toolbox activities are based on the culture of feedback between learners and teachers, therefore evaluation at the end of each activity is always included. Suggestions on how to carry on visual evaluation with students is present at this link;