Reflect on and analyse key intercultural encounters abroad
The intercultural debriefing module provides students with a structured space to process and make sense of their mobility experience. By encouraging reflection and critical analysis of key intercultural encounters, it helps students consolidate their learning, recognise personal growth, and apply their insights to future multicultural settings.
It builds on the theoretical concepts introduced in the preparation module, helping students revisit and apply them when reflecting on their intercultural experiences.
Since many universities do not offer formal debriefing, valuable learning is often left unexplored. Designed to be brief, adaptable, and resource-efficient, this module ensures that intercultural learning does not end with mobility, but becomes a lasting skillset.
For students:
- Reflect on and process intercultural experiences after returning home: an essential step that is often overlooked without structured support, leading to missed learning opportunities
- Identify personal growth and skill development from time abroad
- Get tools and strategies to use the experience gained in further studies and personal life
- Strengthen adaptability, resilience, and self-awareness
- Enhance employability with clear insights into acquired intercultural skills
- Avoid reverse culture shock by understanding re-adjustment challenges
- Apply intercultural learning in future international or multicultural settings
For Higher Education Institutions staff:
- Maximise the impact of student mobility beyond the time abroad
- Support students in integrating their learning into academic and professional life
- Foster long-term intercultural competences rather than just short-term exposure
- Offer a structured, scalable, quick-to-adopt debriefing process
- Strengthen alumni engagement by providing continued support upon return