BICAS – Building Intercultural Competencies for Ambulance Services

The BICAS project aims to increase the intercultural competence of paramedics and by this to simplify their all-day work and to decrease their stress level. As part of the project a blended learning concept for vocational and further education will be developed and realized. Furthermore, the partners create a mobile app which provides concrete cultural background information for rescue workers in action.

Intercultural competencies and a better understanding of each other are vital for the peaceful coexistence of humans in general and in Europe in particular. The BICAS project makes a valuable contribution.

Apart from the project partners other stakeholders will be invited to adopt the training course and mobile app. In order to achieve this, training course guidelines and policy recommendations will be published and disseminated on national and European level.

In order to achieve these ambitious goals a partnership of ambulance services, vocational training institutions, organisations working with migrants, providing intercultural competencies training, IT experts and evaluation experts has been formed.