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Richard Cook
United Kingdom
Key Competencies for Intercultural Training in a Business Training and Development Context

Josef R. Erbler
Austria
Clash of Religions? About the interdependency between Religion and Culture

Carolyn Feuille
USA
A Competency Approach to Developing Culturally Intelligent Leadership

Yordana Hristozova
Bulgaria
Incorporating training activities in the process of a English language learning as a foreign language to University level students

Eun Kim
USA
Managing Asian Cultural Diversity

Nathalie van Meurs
United Kingdom
Culture’s impact: multi-level thinking and perspective taking

Sreemathi Ramnath and
Christine Wirths
India and Germany
New insights into intercultural training for German-Indian business cooperation: (Mis)Perceptions, Challenges and Realties

Alexander Scheitza and
Sabine Finzi
Germany
Stereotypes – the underrated dimension in international cooperationt

Sabine Wagner
Germany
The German Culture – wouldn’t it be interesting to know how the Germans tick? Own perception – foreign perception

Paul Weslake
Finland
Cross-Cultural Colours

Mareike Zettel
Germany
Integration of Migrants in European Societies – What can Intercul-turalists Contribute?

Joanne Zitek
Cynthia Livingston
USA
Conflict Resolution Isn’t Enough…. Insights and Skills for Managing Conflict

T.E. Andreeva and
E.A. Skrebneva
Russia
Subcultural specificity of telecommunication industry in different national cultures (on the example of Spain and Russia)

Nara Arutchyan
Armenia
Cultural Diversity as a component of European identity

Banus, Enrique and
Arbizu Nuria et al.
Spain
Cultural infrastructures’ influence on the economic, social and cultural development: some examples of the Spanish situation with a special focus on the intercultural issues

Roger Bell
Spain and Great Britain
Multiculturalism in today’s environment: will it ever be the same?

Maria Borger
Qatar and USA
Teaching Cross-Cultural Perspectives in the Arabian Gulf: Academic Bridge Program, Doha, Qatar

Florence Bourdon
France
View of Culture in Studies of Human Development

Dine Brinkman and
Marjan Wink
Netherlands
How to assess Intercultural Competence?

Frank Brueck
Austria
The Use of Autophotography in Cultural Comparison Studies

Cheryl Caesar
France and USA
The Dance of Time and Space: Chronotopes

Nancy Caldwell
France and USA
Potential Dangers of Interculturalism. A Creative Look

Elisabeth Cassels-Brown and
Priya Abraham
Austria
Looking in a distorted mirror: Western mis-perceptions of Eastern managers

Tanya Chavdarova
Bulgaria
Between West and East or between North and South? The Case of Bulgarian Business Culture

Anne Mette Christiansen
Denmark
Scandinavian Management in a Polish setting

Marie-Therese Claes and
Astrid Kainzbauer
Belgium and Austria
Managing a multicultural team in Thailand. Two years of management experience in the “Land of Smiles”

Ute Clement and
Gerhard Krejci
Germany and Austria
Intercultural trainings in business settings

Tricia Coverdale-Jones
United Kingdom
The importance of intercultural learning – does it work and what should we be doing about it?

Barbara Czarnecka
United Kingdom and Poland
Cross-cultural differences in value appeals in the UK and Polish printed advertising

Aneta Dimitrova
Bulgaria
Sweet Europe (Exploring cross-cultural diversity through EU labelling of sweets)

Ciaran Dunne
Ireland
Managing cultural diversity in higher education - A qualitative exploration of intercultural communication from the perspective of host culture students in an Irish University

N. Eernstman and
D. Brinkman
Netherlands
Bridging Cultures between Teachers and Parents: Stimulating Interaction Between Teachers and Parents in a Multicultural Setting

Betse C. Esber
USA
Intercultural Communication and Education in Multicultural Societies

Richard Fay
United Kingdom
Developing awareness of the richness and challenges of com-puter-mediated intercultural communication: Curriculum design and participant experiences

Georgiadis, et al.
Greece
School Leadership’s Professional Development regarding Anti-Racism and Social Justice: the Greek Case

Nelly van der Geest
Netherlands
Inspiration in Intercultural leadership

Susana Goncalves
Portugal
Intercultural Learning, Communication and Education: Connecting Research and Practice

Alison et al. Gourves-Hayward
France and Ireland
The Intercultural Dimension of the Language On-Line Project (LOLIPOP). How interculturally competent are you?

Eva Gordon-Smith
United Kingdom
The Motivating Forces and Challenges of Global Business Teams – Eastern and Central Europe EU-Accession - taking Czech Republic as an example

Ellen Greenberg,
Serguey Ivanov and
Krassimir Goranov
Bulgaria and USA
Racism in Post-Communist Bulgaria: The Case of the Roma

Tzvetana Guerdjikova
Canada and Bulgaria
Managing cultural diversity: the Canadian experience

Claire Halverson and
Ken Williams
USA
Changing Perceptions of Social Identity: From African/Caribbean to the United States

Judit Hidasi
Hungary
Intracultural Diversity - Japan at the beginning of the 21st century

Matthew Hill
United Kingdom
Intercultural Case Study – Muslims in a Christian World

Mijnd Huijser and
Ahmad Mohseni
Netherlands
The Cultural Advantage. Reconciling the Work of Hofstede and Trompenaars in a New Model

Emilia Ilieva and
Dragomira Shuleva
Bulgaria
Innovative Methods of Intercultural Learning within the SMILE Project 2004 – 2007

Zarine Jacob
United Kingdom and India
Global Coaching – a practitioner’s view from the field

Robert Johnson and
Wei Ju Liao
United Kingdom and Taiwan
Can cross-cultural training make matters worse? Lessons to be learnt from an empirical study of sojourners in Taiwan

Sonia Karabeliova and
Liudmilla Andreeva
Bulgaria
Cultural diversity in multicultural societies. Sex Role and Ethnic Stereotypes of the Young Adults in Bulgaria

Oxana S. Karnauhova
Russia
Multiculturalism as the paradigm of the postcolonial development: the Russian glance at the British multicultural model

Natalie Kleinschmidt and
Anne Claire Geffroy
France and Germany
From managing differences to Reaching Full Potential: a new approach to respond to our clients’ and participants’ evolving needs

Patrick LeMont Schmidt
Austria, USA and France
The Invisible Mindsets of Americans, Germans and Austrians - How do they differ?

Jasmin Mahadevan
Germany
Beyond Culture: Why the Interpretative Anthropological Approach to Global Interactions is So Important

Plamen Makariev and
Tsvetan Davidkov
Bulgaria
Power Distance – Legitimacy or Coercion

Ruth Mastron
USA
Human Rights, Cultural Wrongs

Mihail Minkov
Bulgaria
Pride and Self-Consistency Predict Cross-Cultural Differences in School Performance, Thrift, Suicide Rates and Religiousness

Marjeta Novak
Slovenia
Why do 'proven' interactive training methods sometimes fail in Central & Eastern Europe: an insider's perspective

Jose Pascal da Rocha
Germany
Negotiating the "Other" - Towards an Analysis and Theories of Interculturalism

Irina Perianova
Bulgaria
Political Correctness - the Case of the Vanishing Trust?

Melville Petrie
United Kingdom
The Influence of China and UK's Culture on Doing Business

Ngyen Phuong-Mai et al.
Netherlands
A Culturally Appropriate Model for Cooperation

Adrian Pillbeam
United Kingdom
Developing intercultural training and consulting skills – what works best and why?

Angelika Plett and
Liane Dannen-berg-Schütte
Germany
The Intercultural Conflict style Inventory (ICS) – Theory And Practice

Petr Podlesak and
Eliska Kubickova
Czech Republic
Cultural aspects of Czech beer commercials

Juliana Roth
Germany and Bulgaria
Ethical Considerations for Intercultural Trainers

Adrienne Rubatos and
Rudolf Bildhauer
Germany
Intercultural work at the very heart of the business (Mixed top manage-ment team within German automotive industry in Romania)

Haiganush Silgidjan,
Sonja Karabeliova and
Encho Gerganov
Bulgaria
The Growing Value of Uncertainty Avoidance: The Actual "Anchor" of National Culture in Bulgaria

Joseph Shaules
France and USA
The Deep Culture Model – Understanding Hidden Barriers to Intercultural Adaptation

Shawn Simpson
France
The IDEA project - a case study on intercultural teamwork in the creation of EU proposals

Margret Steixner
Austria
Learning between the worlds: Relevance and potentials of Intercultural Coaching in the field of development work

Katharina Storch
Ireland and Poland
The experiences of Polish migrant women in Ireland and their adjustment to Irish society

Bettina Strewe
Germany
Adult Education in Macedonia as an important factor for cultural rethinking: how to encourage people to practice democracy and tolerance

Jaroslav Svetlik
Czech Republic
The Single European Market - Opportunities and Threats for Newcomers? Newcomers - Opportunities or Threats for the Single European Market?

Wim Swaan
Netherlands
Intercultural relations including Central Eastern Europe: An identity negotiation perspective

Pascale Sztum
Belgium
Is it always possible to overcome most of the research’s bias through the help of researchers indigenous to the context explored?

Magdalena Telus
Germany
Intercultural Communication Eastern Europe – an innovative module for a master program

Marine Tunyan
Armenia
3C and K’ model in multicultural companies

Nilly Venezia
Israel
Multicultural Education in Early Childhood

Hannah Wilder and
Sabine Amend
USA and Germany
Coaching Executives for the Four Directions: Leading Change in a Complex Multicultural World