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The State of Ageing – 2019 and 2020 The ‘State of Ageing reports, published ny the Centre for Ageing Better, give a snapshot of what life is like for older people today and looks at the prospects for future generations. Watch the 2019 video, below, or read the full 2020 report. Visit the SASSI-Working On…

Intercultural dialogue during the pandemic: impact and response “Whilst underscoring humanity’s interconnectedness and interdependency, COVID-19 has also led to a rise in discrimination, inequality, and vulnerability, putting pressure on the capacities of societies for intercultural understanding at a time where solidarity and cooperation are needed more than ever. Exploring these themes, a new UNESCO brief…

Time4Sustainable Development wins the My-Vita Award The Time4Sustainable Development project partners are proud to announce that the project won the My-Vita Award for “innovative European learning and development” at the 10th REVEAL Annual Conference. The conference was held virtually on the 10th and 11th December 2020 with the theme of “Creativity, Innovation and Digitalisation at…

Time4Sustainable Development Stocktaking and EU Company Engagement Strategy From the beginning of the Time4Sustainable Development project we set out to identify the extent to which enterprises are embedding the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within their working practices – how they are going about this and how they are developing their employees in the agenda. An…

Time4Sustainable Development – A CPD Programme for Trainers The Time4Sustainable Development (T4SD) project is developing a CPD Programme for those who are involved in facilitating the embedding of the Sustainable Development Goals within organisations. The partnership presented a Project Overview poster (PDF, 280KB) at the December 2020 REVEAL Conference. For more information, and if you’re interested…

In-depth Interviews provide a better understanding of Intercultural Competence in the Social and Healthcare Sector The I-CARE project wants to address these important questions: Which intercultural competences are needed in the social and healthcare sector today? What kind of difficulties do social and healthcare workers face daily when dealing with cultural diversity amongst patients? What…

Approaching Multi-ethnicity and Dementia in Education and Work The number of people suffering from dementia and needing care is constantly increasing. In many countries in Europe, this challenge is combined with the challenge of handling multi-culturality and multi-ethnicity amongst care staff, the residents at care homes and the elderly receiving home care – and amongst…

Tackling Online Disinformation: An Educational Approach Virtual Conference: Wednesday 2nd December 15.00 – 18.00 CET Young adults today live in a globalised world where they are processing information from a wide variety of sources; where ‘Fake News’ is big news and where it’s difficult to tell what is real or deliberately made up to misinform!…

Transnational Situational Analysis in Graphics Visit the I-CARE Project site for more information

Poor Intercultural Communication in healthcare can be devastating The World Health Organisation has long noted that “language can be a barrier to accessing relevant and high quality health information and delivering appropriate health care”. Numerous studies have shown poor intercultural communication in healthcare settings can have devastating consequences, and – especially in stressful situations such…