Lisa Cooper, Managing Director of the Leadership Foundation has been appointed as faciliator of the Intercultural Navigators program. Lisa will be trained by the Britsh Council in 2008 and has agreed to develop the program and train 30 "Navigators" in 2009.

Intercultural Navigators, run and developed by the British Council, aims to develop groups of young leaders in Europe who can easily ‘navigate’ within and between different cultures – who are aware of their own cultural backgrounds and who are able and open enough to accept, respect and understand other cultures.

The project will be launched in 2008 in nine countries in central and northern Europe. It is a large-scale project that will be organised in partnership with a diverse group of institutions and experts working in the area of leadership development and intercultural literacy from the UK, Europe and Africa.

The young participants will be able to contribute to issues such as the:

• -relationships of communities of people who have been dispersed from their original homeland with their home and receiving countries
• -movement of people between new and old EU member states
• - relationship between ‘fortress’ Europe and Africa in the face of future waves of migration.

To help young leaders successfully engage in these international issues the British Council will organise training in leadership skills and intercultural communication. The young participants will also have the opportunity to take part in international attachment programmes in public and non-governmental institutions and the business sector.

The British Council and its international partners will also encourage the young people to develop their own initiatives by providing training in project management and fund-raising – and will supply investment for the best projects to be initiated.

Click here for more information on Intercultural Navigators - APPLY TO BE A NAVIGATOR!