At the InterCultural Center (ICC), research, education and social responsibility projects complement each other in order to contribute to a more responsible society: competent within diversity, for a diverse society.
To achieve this vision of interculturality, the researchers at the InterCultural Center combine various theoretical approaches with state-of-the-art methods to work on future solutions for pending social and cultural challenges. The research units of our InterCultural Center are:
- The Institute for Intercultural and Communication Research (ICR)ICR Research Unit Director: Prof. Dr. Birgit Breninger
- The Salzburg Institute for Reading Research (SIRR)SIRR Research Unit Director: Prof. Dr. Thomas Kaltenbacher
- The Culture and Science Laboratory (CSL)CSLab Director: Prof. Dr. Thomas Kaltenbacher
- The Intercultural Academy (IA)IA Research Unit Director: Prof. Dr. Chibueze Udeani
- The Institute for Global Development (IGD)IGD Unit Director: Prof. Dr. Kurt Luger, UNESCO Chair
- The Research Fellowship Program (RFP)RFP Unit Director: Phoebe Mayer, MBA
Birgit Breninger
Selected Academic Interests:
- Interculturality – culture, communication and trainings
- Perception, cognition and attention
- Intercultural competence assessments and new methodologies
- Identities and social groups from intercultural perspectives
Chibueze C. Udeani
Selected Academic Interests:
- Interculturality – culture, communication, conflict and conflict management; and competence
- Intercultural Hermeneutics
- Philosophy – especially from an intercultural perspective
- Theology – especially from an intercultural perspective
- Religious Studies and Science
Thomas Kaltenbacher
Selected Academic Interests:
- Interculturality – language and culture
- Multimodal language perception, language production and language acquisition (L1&L2)
- Cognition and perception: reading and information processing
- Clinical linguistics, Neurolinguistics
