Importance of intercultural preparation for mobility teachers and staff need it as well

Abstract

Mobility has become one of the most important goals in Europe and worldwide in recent time. Different projects and programs (Erasmus, Erasmus Mundus, CEEPUS, etc.) support the mobility of students, teachers and staff. For students and teachers, the main goals of mobility are learning and teaching in different cultural and lingual environments, as well as learning languages and benefiting from cross-cultural experiences. In general, neither students nor teachers are prepared for active participation in new cultural and lingual environments. International relation offices mostly take care on lingual preparation of students and sometimes also cultural education is included but rarely any preparation for teachers and staff is done. Do the teachers and staff do not need it? Or do they not want to do it?