Welcome to the
Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters

What is the Autobiography?
The Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters is a tool designed to encourage people to think about and learn from intercultural encounters that have made a strong impression or had a long-lasting effect on them. In discovering what underlies these encounters users become more aware of their experience and their reactions, thereby developing their intercultural competences.

What is an intercultural encounter?
An intercultural encounter can be an experience between people from different countries or it can be an experience between individuals from other cultural backgrounds in the same country, for example, from other regional, linguistic, ethnic or religious backgrounds.

How are intercultural encounters explored in the Autobiography?
Users of the Autobiography develop understanding and competences for the future by reflecting critically on their experiences. They select and describe specific intercultural encounters in which they have taken part, analyse their experience individually, and identify different aspects of their current intercultural competences as a stimulus to developing their competences further.

Who is the Autobiography for?
The Autobiography is for everyone: it can be used across the curriculum in schools or any other educational context contributing to lifelong learning. It can also be used outside formal educational contexts as a self-evaluation and development tool.

How many versions of the Autobiography are there?
There are two versions:
 a version for younger learners, up to around age 11, including those who are not yet able to read and write
 a standard version suitable for older users in schools and beyond.

The Autobiography is accompanied by a range of supporting materials, all of which may be downloaded, saved to your computer and used freely. To access the Autobiography and these supporting materials, please click on the logo to the right.


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