Intercultural learning and communication in Time Bank environment

This study aims to conduct preliminary research in the field of Time Banking and its use in solving of intercultural issues. Time Banking is a system of complementary time currency where sharing is the main element. The Time Banking is used often to solve various social problems and using it to tackle intercultural learning issues is at hand. The information about precise scope and activities of Time Banks over the world are hard to access, nevertheless main focus of this study is going to be to research the possible connections between intercultural learning and communication and Time Bank environment. Main methodology used is literature review combined with previous Time Bank researches in order to determine the connection between aforementioned fields, including search of other resources to determine whether the issue was; or is, already tackled. The latter proven to be very challenging, anyhow the results show that the Time Bank offers great opportunity for solving various intercultural issues, especially by enabling the, skill and offer-demand based exchange without taking the cultural background much in consideration, therefore opening a way for the communication among different parts of population. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.