D5 - Improving the abilities of hosting institutions to culturally integrate international researchers
| Day | Day 2 |
|---|---|
| Session | D |
| Start time | 13:45 |
| Strand | Research Staff |
| Code | D5 |
| Presenters |
Svetlana Dimitrova - EURAXESS Bulgaria network coordinator, Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski Dr Linda Hui Yang - Intercultural Researcher/Trainer, Dublin, Ireland, University College Dublin Natalia Blagoeva - Founder and CEO, Eudaimonia Solutions EOOD |
Background
This workshop targets the needs of stakeholders at hosting institutions who support mobile researchers and their integration, as well as researchers themselves. It aims to raise awareness of challenges faced by mobile researchers and to introduce solutions that would improve the abilities of the institutions to integrate mobile researchers and of researchers to get integrated.
Participants will first be informed of the challenges faced by mobile researchers based on exciting data collected through research and workshops in the field of multicultural competences and communication of both researchers and EURAXESS staff.
They will then be involved in interactive exercises empowering them to be more aware of their own stage of growth and understand how the ability to deal with diversity and multicultural challenges depends on the level of growth of people in the educational establishment, the culture they create together and the type of decision making they support. This approach will improve the abilities of participants to work across the boundaries of inter-cultural, but also inter-organisational and business/industry boundaries.
This session will cover:
- Introduction to the challenges encountered by foreign mobile researchers in the acculturation process in the host institutions and countries.
- Introduction to the Cultural Values Assessment according to the world renowned methodology of Barrett Values Centre
- Introduction to Values-based Approach to decision making of Barrett Values Centre as a tool towards being effective across the boundaries of inter-cultural, inter-organizational and business/industry boundaries
- Advancing the skills of the participants to be effective Leaders and Agent of Change within the Host institutions
- Application of the Values-based Approach in professional and social settings.
Participants will:
- have a better understanding of the challenges encountered by foreign mobile researchers in the European context
- have a greater awareness of why people may act or react the way they do in situations
- explore alternative approaches to decision making
- advance their understanding of what is at the foundation of effective diversity management
- advance their understanding of what true leadership is
- get motivated to be agents of positive change towards improving the ability of the hosting institutions to culturally integrate incoming researchers
- have a plan for applying the Values-based approach in supporting mobile researchers, and for researchers have a plan to apply the approach to overcoming the challenges identified.
Themes covered:
- New and interesting ways of supporting mobility - international, intersectoral, interdisciplinary and virtual mobility
- Researchers' development across boundaries: learning from international collaborations, exploring inter-cultural competences and business/industry collaborations in developing researchers
Format:
Information, assessment, interaction, group discussions and summary of key learnings.
