<< Background >>The INTERCOMP project involves the development of intercultural competencies to school educators primarily, but also to university educators and informal education. This is expected to be achieved through the development of a relevant educational course. This educational course will be developed in order to address the needs of educators that they have to interact with refugees. More specifically, educators currently working in schools have not been adequately trained to teach students from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds This is an important need to be addressed as the characteristics of the refugees attending schools nowadays are different from those of the past (e.g., war trauma etc) and our educators are not properly trained to deal with these challenges. In this respect, the INTERCOMP project aims to provide an educational resource that can be used by educators and stakeholders working with refugees.<< Objectives >>The INTERCOMP project has the following objectives: a) develop a network of universities and educational entities that together will develop a course for intercultural communication in the formal and non-formal education. b) develop an educational course about intercultural competencies c) develop a network of educators who will be aware of designing, developing and delivering effective Intercultural Communication plans through social and emotional learning methodologies and coaching techniques d) help pre-service and in-service educators strengthen their professional/teaching profile and job satisfaction by offering training on a stressful event of the everyday teaching life.<< Implementation >>To achieve this objective, a change in the mindset and skills of current and future teachers is required; and our project aims to kick start this process with collaboration by partners from different educational sectors, i.e., universities and educational entities passionate about working together to develop and disseminate a new approach which better suits our times and challenges. INTERCOMP project will implement a thourough process aiming at the development of an educaitonal course that will assist educators increase their intercultural competencies. This process involves co-creation of the educational course with educators, ie., the end users of the course, and a thorough evaluation of its efficacy in increasing awareness about the pedagogy and teaching practices for establishing intercultural skills. Furthermore, INTERCOMP project will conduct multiplier events and a LTTE in order to create ambassadors of intercultural education that will promote the concept of intercultural education to schools and educational authorities across Europe. In addition, dissemination activities targeting multiple and diverse (i.e, educators, policy makers, academics etc) have been planned to share and promote the project results and the concept of intercultural education.<< Results >>The project will produce the following project results: 1. Co-creation reflections of educators beliefs about their intercultural competencies and the needs for developing such competencies. 2. Development of an educational course suitable for several stakeholders, mainly educators, universities, volunteers, advocacy organizations, but also relevant to education policy makers. 3. Academic outputs such as conceptual and research articles, conference presentations and workshops related to the aims, objectives, and produced deliverables of the project. 4. Dissemination outputs, through modern communication approaches including social media [twitter, Facebook, Instagram], media clips on YouTube, downloads, press releases, etc) of the projects aims and objectives, and produced deliverables. 5. A 5 day learning and teaching event that can be used by educational entities to assist their members become competent to teach in an intercultural environment.Overall, the project envisages to contribute to the promotion of life skills education and increase the quality of education provided to children and adolescents.