Intercultural Communities Project
Intercultural Communities Project (ICP) aims to bridge, build, and sustain strong intercultural communities with youth and adults by providing intercultural education and training, cross-cultural exchange opportunities, community engagement, empowerment, and leadership skills.
About Us
What is an Intercultural Commmunity?
An Intercultural Community is a community with people from two or more cultures effectively communicating and engaging across multiple cultures. This community embraces the diversity of people and perspectives and intentionally encourages the inclusion of everyone in the community.
ICP curates and promotes projects related to, involving, or representing different cultures in communities around the world.
ICP connects individuals and communities to culture through international travel and intercultural competence training.
ICP helps individuals understand the value of building and sustaining strong intercultural communities and centering culture in their daily lives.
ICP helps organizations empower and support their internal and external intercultural community members and apply an intercultural competence lens on their services and work.
ICP trains individuals to be culturally competent in intercultural contact by helping them gain awareness of their own world view(s) and developing skills for communication and interaction across cultures.
Our Projects
ICP's Statement on Diversity & Inclusivity
ICP believes in the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusivity for all sectors in the economy and for all communities at large. We stand against any attempt to exclude or discourage individuals from participating in our community on the basis of religion, ethnicity, gender, or other discriminatory attributes. We believe in standing up for the vulnerable and the oppressed. We strive to create and strenghten a safe, inclusive, respectful, and inspiring space using culturally appropriate methods for ongoing conversation and growth. We are committed to proactively cultivating and sustaining an intercultural community that values open dialogue, cooperation, shared responsibility, mutual respect, and cultural competence — the driving forces that enrich and enhance communities worldwide.