Ben Abid-Zarrouk, Sandoss <br/><br/>
Intercultural skills and international cooperation: the case of exchanges between Germany and the Maghreb 

 -  2022.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> Since 2019, the Moroccan Entrepreneurial University Initiative project has been carried out to develop the employability of graduate students through the acquisition of professional skills. It brings together two German, two Moroccan, two Tunisian universities and the University of Haute-Alsace (France). This experiment made it clear that speaking English was not enough to allow constructive and effective international exchange. One year after the start of the project, misunderstandings and tensions made it necessary to organize training in intercultural competence in order to enable participants to acquire specific indispensable skills so as to carry on with the project. This article will initially recall the theoretical foundations of intercultural competence, in order to analyze the situations where it has been lacking. It will then present a case study in order to anchor some effects of intercultural skills training in a context of international cooperation.