As the year gets underway and new year’s resolutions are still intact, join us for a new edition of CHARM ON, the monthly online series that explores CHARM-EU’s innovative practices through concrete experiences from across the Alliance.
How do we communicate, collaborate, and build trust across cultures, languages, and institutions? This CHARM ON session explores intercultural communication through practical experiences from teaching, mobility, and professional practice. Our panel will share insights on navigating linguistic diversity, cultural expectations, norms, and institutional practices. Together, panellists will reflect on how intercultural competence can be developed intentionally and how it contributes to inclusion, trust, and more effective cooperation.
Date: Monday, 26 january
Time: 13:00–14:00 CET
Format: Online panel discussion (live stream + sound recording available afterwards)
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This event is open to all members of CHARM-EU universities — educators, researchers, students, and professional staff — and to anyone curious about intercultural communication in higher education. No registration required.
Each CHARM ON features a moderated panel with voices from across our university community (educators, researchers, students, and support staff) sharing concrete experiences that bring CHARM-EU’s approaches to life. Together, they connect principles to practice, point to good examples in our Service Portfolio, and signpost trainings and follow-up opportunities offered by the Alliance.
CHARM ON will take place on the last Monday of each month at 13:00 CET, offering a regular space to share ideas, practices, and impact stories across the CHARM-EU community.
You can listen to our previous CHARM ON sessions on our Spotify channel, including discussions on:
Prof. Christopher M. Schmidt is a professor of German language and literature at Åbo Akademi University, where he brings language and culture to life in both teaching and research. He is passionate about exploring how people communicate across cultures and how language shapes understanding in international and business contexts, making him a go-to expert on language in intercultural communication. Beyond his academic work, Christopher helps connect students and scholars from different backgrounds through collaborative programmes and intercultural projects.
Dr. Monika Kovács is professor of social psychology at the Institute of Intercultural Education and Psychology at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest. She was vice dean for external relations and academic affairs between 2006 and 2015 at the Faculty of Education and Psychology, managing international relations of the faculty as well as supervising research projects. She has been teaching the course Internationalization in Higher Education, one of the courses of the Social Integration MA, for several years. With her colleague, Professor Lan Anh Nguyen Luu, she has conducted many intercultural preparation trainings for incoming and outgoing students as well as for staff of ELTE’s partners (Erasmus+ staff training) and for staff of ELTE itself. In the framework of CHARM-EU she was a member of the expert team that developed the Intercultural Preparation Modules, which aim to explore and enhance intercultural competences.
