Project Activities as a Tool for Intercultural Competence Development of Vocational Teachers

Constant changes of science and technologies pose increasingly higher requirements to vocational teachers both as specialists of corresponding vocational subject area and personalities seeking for diverse improvement, being open to education innovations and international integration, and able to flexibly adapt to constant changes and realise the accumulated potential. Competence development of educators is influenced by international projects implemented by educational organisations under the Erasmus programme. Participation of vocational teachers in projects enables them acquiring intercultural education experience and developing the general competencies and particularly the intercultural competence that helps the educators become more effective in the chosen area of education. Thus, the authors of the paper seek to substantiate the project activities empirically as a tool for intercultural competence development of vocational teachers. (c) 2022 Ausra Repeckiene, Renata Zvireliene, Daiva Vareikaite.