Outgoing Seminar as Project based Teaching of Intercultural Competence – A Description of the Results of the Project ‘Study Trip to Concentration Camp Memorial Site and Youth Encounter S’

Abstract

The article is presenting the result of the project “Study trip to Memorial Site Dachau of the youth” conducted at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland and Krakow's high schools. The project's goal was to provide the knowledge as well as soft skills to the group of pupils and students. The aim of the project was to teach youth intercultural competence by showing them the similarities in common European history. The awareness of history and culture is an important key of intercultural competence. In order to teach intercultural competence there was used the project based teaching and outgoing seminar. It is worth to underline that in Polish youth opinion they have more difficulties in gaining the intercultural competence than Western Europe's students who are longer the part of EU. Outgoing seminar is the best way to show them their possibilities of having intercultural competence is the same as Western Europe's students because of common history.