Cross-Cultural Communication Do Icelanders have the ... - Skemman

LOK 2106 University of Akureyri
4.2 The CEReS action
The CEReS project is innovative in the way it approaches the preparation
and design of the curriculum whereas the users of the intended material, the
students and companies, contribute systematically to the project.
The curriculum will be published in Icelandic, Polish, Bulgarian, Swedish as
well as English and will partly reflect on the cultural differences between
these countries.
The university students that take part in the project will visit companies in
all of the five partner countries and take video interviews with managers
who are willing to reveal their perception of the main cross-cultural issues
and barriers in their company. Emphasis will be placed on critical incidents
in cross-cultural communication verbal and written, socialising, levels of
formality, hospitality, body language, general etiquette, managing, attitude
to time and more. The students will also keep ´video diaries´ about their
experience in the visits to the companies as well as other interactions in their
visits to the countries, which will be used along with sketches from the
video interviews in making the curriculum
The actual experiences of the companies and students will thus be
intertwined with the theoretical studies. The results will hopefully contribute
to building a bridge between the academic and the business world whereas
they will be distributed through networks of associations of vocational and
training bodies as well as in the educational system. A Website and a set of
CD-ROMs will further ensure that the results of the project will continue to
influence teaching and training in cross-cultural communication (Rafn
Kjartansson, 2005 a and Hagen, 2004).
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Steinunn Aðalbjarnardóttir
Comment [H1]: What ‘actions
are considered for this’?