The Cultural Survival Kit is in effect a wiki on European culture and countries.

Function: Providing student with a head-start in avoiding cultural & linguistic pitfalls, how to survive and enjoy the different European cultures.

Content: Country profile of different EU member states (history, culture, business etiquette). Language help: useful phrases for collaboration.

Interactivity: Share your impressions of Europe’s countries and national cultures with other users, by participating, for country X of your choice, in the discussion on The alternative X.

Target group: (Aspiring) Mobile students and VM/Erasmus-coordinators

Contact person: Ms Eva Abramuszkinová, e-mail: eva.abramuszkinova@newtoncollege.cz

Recommendation for future users

Survival Kit can be used:

1. by teachers in different subjects – language teaching (English, Finnish, Slovene, Czech, Dutch), sociology, politology, intercultural communication, history, tourism, management,...
2. by students (and others as well) as:

• virtual mobility guide for students informing them about different cultures in EU, basic characteristics of each country and special focus on intercultural communication
• a source of information for different disciplines which they study (history, politology, ...)
• a source for travel information, esp. when they do not participate in physical exchange. They can benefit for example from virtual sightsing tours.
• a place where they can share their own experience with EU countries