The Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication (SIIC) has a 36-year history of providing professional development for people who believe that this work matters. During its first ten years at Stanford University, and for the last 24 under the auspices of the Intercultural Communication Institute in Portland, Oregon, SIIC has become a creative—and sometimes downright playful—community of intercultural scholars and practitioners from many cultures that meet each year to renew their energies and commitments. Additional information can be found here, or in the 2011 SIIC Brochure (pdf).

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The schedule for SIIC 2012 will be available early in the year.

Applications for the SIIC Fellows Program and the SIIC New Interculturalists Program will be available in early 2012.

If you have a fascination with working across cultures, whether domestically or globally, we are pleased to offer you a distinctive Master of Arts degree in Intercultural Relations. Designed to prepare you for a stimulating career or to increase your skills in an existing job, our program offers a unique curriculum in a creative format for busy interculturalists.

The Intercultural Communication Institute (ICI) offers an Intercultural Certificate Program with three certificate levels based on attendance at ICI’s Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication (SIIC). Each level of certification acknowledges exposure to state-of-the-art theory and practice, knowledge of intercultural practices, and growth as an intercultural professional. These certificates represent participation in the Summer Institute and possibly in other learning activities connected to the ICI network. Finally, the certificates reflect a commitment to the professional standards maintained by ICI trainers and faculty.

The Intercultural Communication Institute is pleased to announce partnerships with multiple organizations, providing access to a variety of tools designed for teaching and training, team building, professional development, and to assess and develop intercultural competencies.

• The Global Competencies Inventory (GCI) and the Intercultural Effectiveness Scale (IES) are inventories designed by The Kozai Group to assess competencies critical to interacting and working effectively with people who are from different cultures.
  
  
• Cultural Detective® provides a dynamic series of tools that develop invaluable intercultural and global business competence in individuals and organizations.
  
  
• Diversafari: A Learning Adventure from Executive Diversity Services is a learning program of tools that combine global cultural awareness with proven adult learning methods to deliver immediate results in the workplace.
  
  
• GlobeSmart is a comprehensive online resource developed by Aperian Global for busy professionals who need high-quality, practical information about multiple cultures, on a moment's notice.