Developing Across Differences

Enhance your skills, expand your network and be inspired at the European Developing Across Differences (DAD) Learning Lab & Community Week. The fourth annual edition of this advanced professional development and interdisciplinary learning programme will run from 6-11 July 2025.

The event is designed for experienced practitioners and scholars — from all sectors, from Europe and beyond — who wish to continue to hone their expertise in one or more 4 key areas of study and practice in the Differences field: Intercultural communication, Global learning, Anti-discrimination/Diversity & inclusion, and Global competence. Past participants include corporate professionals, faculty and academic advisors, international education staff, government officers, NGO/non-profit managers and other multipliers who help audiences embrace and work with differences for sustainable solutions.

(Visiting) faculty include: Milton Bennett, Nadine Binder, Michaela Carrière, Darla Deardorff (virtual), Didem Ekici, Annette Gisevius, Jana Hollá, Sarah-Louise Jones, Maja Nenadinović, Mai Nguyen, Stephan Ruppert, Anjana Singh, Annelie Wambeek, and Charlotte Wekker. The event is offered by the Institute for Developing Across Differences and the University of Groningen/RUG. Enroll today.

The IDD Terms and Conditions apply to all of these programmes.

Educating Global Ready Graduates
Discover the demanding yet rewarding paths to developing and assessing students’— and other stakeholders’—global and intercultural competence on campus within the higher education settings.

Dates: 7 - 8 July 2025

The Relational Roots of Intercultural Communication
(Re)discover relational communication — versus culture — as the basis of effective Intercultural Communication. It teaches updated observational categories to help guide your intercultural training and competence development efforts.

Dates: 10 - 11 July 2025

Generative Artificial Intelligence & You
Explore how to move past the Artificial Intelligence hype to leverage AI effectively and ethically to help foster individual and organizational-level development across differences.

Dates: 10 July 2025

Addressing Everyday Racism
Learn what everyday racism is, the roles we all play in it at any given time, and how to overcome resistance to acknowledging racism and its very real effects.

Dates: 9 July 2025

(De)Polarising Dialogue
Reclaim constructive dialogue and respectful interactions. In a time when civil discussions are missing, gain research-based tools and communication activities to defuse tensions, maximize the chances of being heard, and achieve desired outcomes.

Dates: 7 - 8 July 2025

A-ha! Activities
Help learners get unstuck…by creating experiences that stick. Discover how to use jolts — short yet highly effective experiential learning activities — to help your audiences challenge assumptions and work better with differences.

Dates: 9 July 2025

Expanding the Repertoire
Understand how ‘tried-and-true’ methods and pedagogical activities/elements for intercultural- and/or diversity-focused trainings can be enhanced and adapted to be effective for different strands of work within the Differences field.

Dates: 10 - 11 July 2025

Adult Bullying & Difference
Explore how cultural differences, power dynamics, and adult bullying intersect in complex, often subtle ways and learn practical strategies for preventing and mitigating adult bullying behaviors that happen within multicultural contexts.

Dates: 7 - 8 July 2025

Applying Neuroscience
Explore how cutting-edge insights from neuroscience can help create and improve workplace policies and strategies on bias management, diversity & inclusion practices, change management, intercultural communication, work-life balance, and personal development.

Dates: 9 - 11 July 2025

Using the Power of Belonging
People who feel a strong sense of Belonging thrive. Learn how strategically focusing on this shared human need can improve well-being and performance, making diverse teams and organizations more effective.

Dates: 8 July 2025

Power Dynamics and (In)Equity
Understand and address the historical roots of power, privilege, and systemic discrimination and how this influences us (often unconsciously) today in the forms of racism, sexism, xenophobia, and other biases.

Dates: 7 July 2025

Global Competence Frameworks
Discover how design-based thinking methodologies can help you operationalize a global competence framework within your educational institution.

Dates: 11 July 2025

Authoritarianism & the Suppression of Intercultural Consciousness
What are the greater intercultural implications of the worldwide resurgence of populist authoritarianism? Explore how interculturalists can counter authoritarianism in both the theory and the practice of intercultural communication.

Dates: 9 July 2025