Améliorer l'apprentissage et l'évaluation pour l'excellence dans la formation professionnelle et interculturelle
In a world marked by growing cultural diversity, global mobility, and social polarization, intercultural competence is no longer a soft skill, it’s a vital capacity for building inclusive, resilient, and effective workplaces and societies. Yet despite its urgency, intercultural training often remains fragmented, superficial, or detached from real-world complexity. ELEVATE is here to change that.
Funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, ELEVATE brings together an international consortium of academic institutions, training providers, and social innovation organizations across Spain, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and Poland.
Together, we aim to redefine how intercultural competence is developed, evaluated, and sustained in vocational education and training (VET) and in broader organizational learning ecosystems.
Our Vision
What Drives Us
Intercultural competence is central to addressing today’s grand challenges—social fragmentation, discrimination, exclusion in the labor market, and unequal access to opportunity. However, the current state of intercultural training is often insufficient to meet the complexity of these issues. The field lacks shared quality benchmarks, long-term learning strategies, and alignment between academic insight and training design. ELEVATE responds to these critical needs.
We envision a Europe where intercultural competence is cultivated through deep learning processes – not isolated workshops or tick-box activities. ELEVATE promotes transformative, lifelong learning grounded in research, guided by practice, and powered by inclusive collaboration. Our approach goes beyond traditional training models to nurture empathy, cultural agility, and actionable inclusion across sectors.
Key Innovations
We are designing and delivering four interlinked results that will significantly raise the bar for intercultural training across Europe:
Research-Based Intercultural Competence Audit
An evidence-driven, user-friendly self-assessment tool that helps organizations and professionals identify strengths, gaps, and development priorities related to intercultural competence.
Self-Assessment Tool for Intercultural Competence
This tool will enable organizations to audit their intercultural competence, providing insights into areas for improvement.
AI-Assisted WebApp for Personalized Learning
A cutting-edge digital platform that offers individualized learning paths using AI technology. It adapts to each learner’s pace, preferences, and progress, providing real-time feedback, habit tracking, and metacognitive prompts—turning learning into a transformative journey.
Comprehensive Training Handbook
A practice-oriented manual for trainers, facilitators, HR professionals, and educators that includes frameworks, exercises, best practices, and methodologies for delivering meaningful intercultural competence development in diverse contexts.
Target Audiences
ELEVATE is designed for a wide range of professionals involved in developing people and managing diversity, including:
HR and DEIB professionals
Vocational education trainers and curriculum developers
Talent managers and organizational leaders
Trainers and consultants in the field of interculturality
SME owners and entrepreneurs navigating diverse teams
Our tools and resources will be tailored to serve both experienced practitioners and newcomers, large corporations and small enterprises, public institutions and private organizations.
Our Broader Impact
By the end of the project in September 2026, we aim to:
1. Raise the quality standards of intercultural training in VET and beyond.
2. Promote intercultural competence as a strategic priority for inclusive leadership and workplace wellbeing.
3. Foster a European community of practice that integrates research, education, business, and civil society.
4. Enable long-term transformation in how people learn to live and work together across cultures.
With ELEVATE, we’re not just designing tools — we’re designing systems of change.
Join Us
Whether you’re a trainer, manager, policymaker, or educator, ELEVATE offers tools, insights, and inspiration to support your intercultural journey. Stay connected, explore our resources, and help us build a more inclusive, empathetic, and interculturally competent Europe.
Our project is made possible by the collaboration of expert partners:
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them. [Project ID: KA220-VET-7F84C457]