The consortium members got involved in the GLOBDIVES project with the objective to get its teaching staff and students familiar with the concepts of diversity management and global citizenship. The 5-ECTS course on DM&GC has been introduced in the curriculum of students enrolled in the various Faculty of Economics and Business Administration as an elective course. Future graduates will have the opportunity to apply the acquired knowledge from this course in various aspects of their life: professional and personal. At the same time, another goal was that, regardless of the courses taught, professors would receive guidance for introducing aspects of diversity management and global citizenship in their teaching activities through the instruments and trainings provided through the project. These professors will thus be able to face the different challenges provoked by the growing number of diverse students in their classrooms and solve potential difficult situations that might occur. The university teachers will have more knowledge in choosing the proper pedagogical framework to teach Diversity Management and Global Citizenship related courses (by means of IO1 – Common European Pedagogical Framework for course design on GC & DM).
In the participating countries and universities, the topic of diversity management and global citizenship has not been tackled officially in higher education at all levels. There are sporadically courses of diversity management in a couple of partner universities only in some programs but not all teaching staff and students come across it in their daily academic life. With the increase in the number of incoming students (both full-time and exchange), the development of IT sector which attracts a diverse pool of employees, the multinational companies which offer a very diverse workplace.