The consultation served as a forum to discuss the current global context, the opportunities for faith-based civil society, and how they can make strategic choices that maximize the impact towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Center for Intercultural Communication (SIK) at VID Stavanger will collaborate with the University of South Bohemia (Czech Republic) and the University of Iceland in a project funded by EEA Grants.

The Use Your Talents shows how congregations are active in developing their local communities by using available resources.

Center for Intercultural Communication (SIK) in Stavanger has for almost 10 years been a proud partner of a joint European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations (EMMIR) run in collaboration with 7 European and African universities.

For the newly funded MAVI project two new members have joined SIK this August: Norma Wong at the post-doctoral position, and Josh Dickstein in internship.

Mateus Schweyher did an internship at SIK during fall 2016. He is now a PhD fellow at VID. We asked him to tell us about his journey.

Centre for intercultural communication (SIK) at VID has been granted 3 million NOK from the University Foundation of Rogaland county for a new project.

VID/SIK researchers Oleksandr Ryndyk and Gunhild Odden, together with Brigitte Suter from the University of Malmo, will edit the book.

Project update: almost two years after the FAMAC project was officially launched in Stavanger (fall 2016) the researchers involved have completed the data collection and are now focusing on the analysis of the empirical material that was gathered in the past months.

Book project: Researcher at Centre of Intercultural Communication, Øystein Lund Johannessen, together with colleagues from Agder University and Dronning Mauds Minne University College, will in 2018 edit a new bok dealing with the open kindergarten in Norway.

Project update: One year after the FAMAC project was officially launched in Stavanger (fall 2016), the involved researchers have made a considerable progress in the project.