Profile:
Expert in intercultural mediation - Linguistic and cultural operator in German-speaking and transnational fields
Functions:
Cultural operator with managerial and operational functions related to the planning, coordination and realization of broad-spectrum events, and related to intercultural mediation in public bodies, organizations as well as in national and international public and private cultural institutions.
Graduates of the Joint Degree in “Transnational German Studies” are experts in German language and German-speaking culture who are able to develop, manage and promote projects for the development of European coexistence, to interact with European administrative, cultural and political institutions, to collaborate in the journalistic and communication fields.
Skills:
Graduates of the Joint Degree in “Transnational German Studies” possess the following skills:
- German language, level C2;
- English language, level C2;
- a third language, level A2/B1;
- literature and civilization of the countries of which they studied the languages and in particular of the German-speaking area;
- analysis and elaboration of the cultural processes of the studied national civilizations and of the interaction among different cultures;
- analysis of oral communication data or texts written in a wide historical-cultural and intercultural horizon;
- definition and management of European initiatives, projects and programs;
- management of information in multicultural contexts;
- planning and implementation of intercultural events at national and international level;
- formulation and implementation of intercultural European projects.
The employment opportunities for this professional profile are:
- Head of linguistic centres and language and cultural institutes in Italy and abroad;
- Head of associations and public bodies dealing with intercultural issues;
- planning and promotion of activities in intercultural and transnational contexts with positions of high responsibility, in public utility services related to intercultural communication;
- responsible for events and services in the field of communication at national and international level;
- Head of international relations offices both in Italy and abroad;
- collaboration, also with high responsibility functions, to volunteering and non-profit associations for social inclusion and local development;
- in public bodies, municipal or regional councils, social institutions, as linguistic facilitators and intercultural mediators;
- collaboration with high responsibility functions with public and private bodies in cultural services linked to the multilingual and multicultural character of society;
- diplomatic-consular missions, agencies and associations dealing with inter-lingual and intercultural relationships, planning and coordinating actions for the improvement of diplomatic, cultural and associative relations;
- Head of companies in the field of publishing and journalism with reference to interethnic and intercultural dynamics;
- collaboration as linguistic and cultural consultants, also with high responsibility functions, in the entertainment, publishing, journalism and multimedia communication, at national and international level;
- expert in drafting texts, dossiers and information material;
- auditor and translator in national and international publishing houses;
- Head of the press service at national and international newspapers in the field of culture;
- after passing admission tests, participation in PhD and postgraduate courses in Italy and abroad.