THE SWEDEN-INDIA project aims for participants to be educated in critical global citizenship, capable of becoming agencies of larger social change. The general objective:- CAPACITY BUILDING FOR CROSS CULTURAL SENSITIVITY AND COMPETENCE. The personal and professional objectives are interwoven in specific goals.

	Increase awareness and understanding of how culture influences individual and organizational behavior.
	Apply skills and instruments to improve intercultural communication.
	Explore one's own culturally related values, attitudes and behavior.
	Get new perspectives on culture work (specifically social work) and how it is done in another country, culture, situation.
	Provide safe space for students to engage as border crossers.
	Challenge and remap cultural knowledge to minimize biases and stereotypes.
	Experience personal growth through a process of intense interaction with people.
	Compare Sweden and India on levels of similarities and differences for better cultural integration and understanding.
	Find some opportunities to develop and sharpen skills in communication, cooperative living and learning, training in conflict resolution and positive group dynamics.
	Develop a global perspective on social issues.
	Reduce ethnocentrism.
	Create a distance from one's own society, thus developing a sense of "objectivity" in social analysis.
	Influence social policy makers to strengthen ties between India, Sweden (and - eventually - rest of Europe).