Communication is about opportunities. Opportunities for dialog. Opportunities for understanding. Identification and achievement of common goals. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, we have been engaging our friends and colleagues from outside our country to help our country. Thanks to the staff of our university, thousands of Ukrainians have received and continue to receive the necessary help and support – both IDPs and our military, because active communication with our partners from Romania, Germany, Austria, and many other countries made this possible. 

However, we do not stop: we realize that intercultural dialogue is a necessary foundation for development today. In mid-July, on the initiative of the International Office of our university, within the framework of the ERASMUS+ KA2 project “International Students Adaptation and Integration/ INTERADIS”, a training on “Intercultural Communication: Modern Practices” was organized for the university administrative staff. The training was held in the format of active interaction. The participants shared their experiences of meeting and communicating with other cultures and peoples, jointly identified the benefits of cultural diversity, defined the essence of stereotypes, and tried to overcome the most common ones. 

In addition, together with the trainer Nataliia Nechaieva-Yuriichuk, they concluded that intercultural communication is about our everyday lives. After all, living in Chernivtsi and studying at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University means getting to know and communicating with different cultures daily.