Acculturation is the phenomenon that groups of people from different cultures who meet in a country take over cultural features from each other but remain distinct (Kottak, 2007).

Acculturation project at a glance

Foreign students are being prepared online for their studies at a Dutch higher education institution.
Three ways of acculturation in this project:

• content-wise (deficiencies, adaptation, prior knowledge, etc.)
• getting to know the local academic culture (lectures, working style, etc.)
• starting a social network (of Dutch and other foreign students)

Project length

Start: September 2008
End: September 2010
This site will be online until September 2013

This website's target groups

• Students worldwide
• Teaching staff worldwide
• Higher education policymakers worldwide
• Institutions with related goals

Participants

• Leiden University
  
• Hogeschool of Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences
  
• Zuyd University
  
• Maastricht University
  
• University of Twente
  
• The Hague, University of Applied Sciences
  
• Hogeschool Leiden, University of Applied Sciences
  
• Delft University of Technology
• E-Merge
  
• Nuffic
  

The team of Projectmanagers

From left to right:

• Bas Giesbers (WP5: Effect Measurement - instead of Bart Rienties)
• Marleen van der Laan (WP2: Repository)
• Peter Bijleveld (WP2: Repository)
• Alessandra Corda (WP3: Pilot Programmes)
• Ria Jacobi(WP1: Project Management)
• Peter Dekker (WP4: Dissemination)

More information:
Mail to: Ria Jacobi , Project Manager