Our INGENIUM “Stereotype” workshop will discuss in an interactive way how stereotypes can have an impact on our lives. For example, stereotyping involves categorising people into groups (based on their nationality or ethnicity for example) and making judgements about their societal norms, status and culture. In many cases, the impressions formed of people within these stereotypes are not based on facts but rather on oversimplified beliefs.

We will include group discussion, video clips, practical exercises, share handouts and provide information on stereotypes. We will have three facilitators from France, Romania and Ireland. Duration: 1 hour.

Bios

Kristin
Dr Kristin Brogan is a lecturer in German and Intercultural Communication since 1994 at ITT/MTU (Department of Social Sciences). Since 2003 she has been involved with EU Commission funded international projects in on-line language and intercultural communication (ICC) modules and other disciplines and is currently coordinating various Erasmus+ projects (https://web.archive.org/web/20260408115214/https://www.ittralee.ie/en/InformationAbout/Research/EUCommissionProjects/). She also participated in ECML (Council of Europe – www.ecml.at) projects and facilitates workshops as an ECML consultant. Her PhD research study was in Applied Linguistics and ICC on the Year Abroad. She was the chair of the Irish language association “One voice for languages”. She is currently the PI of the INGENIUM ICC group of WP9.3 and is a co-author and a co-facilitator in an ICC badges course: https://opencourses.ie/opencourse/developing-intercultural-awareness-2/

Eva
Evagrina Dîrțu holds a PhD in French literature, with a research study combining elements of comparative literature and cultural studies. She worked as a book editor and translator for several years, before starting to teach French and English (for Specific Purposes) at TUIASI, in 2014, as well as Romanian as a foreign language since 2017. Since 2017, she has also been responsible for an AUF Centre de Réussite Universitaire and since 2024 she has served as editor-in-chief of the LINGUATEK Notebooks/Les Cahiers LINGUATEK, the journal of the LINGUATEK centre, published by the university press. She currently coordinates the Foreign Languages team at TUIASI and is the designated expert representing the university in INGENIUM WP 9.3. She also represents TUIASI in the INGENIUM Language Network (ILANET). Following her participation in the ICC group, she began teaching the ICC course as an optional course at TUIASI in the previous academic year.

Helen
Helen Braund is a lecturer in English and Intercultural Communication and has been working at the University of Rouen Normandie principally at ESITech School of Engineering and at the Faculty of Medicine since 2016.  She has contributed to the work of the national French team responsible for developing language programmes and resources for students in medicine and science (FlexiSanté), and in her role as certification coordinator, has led successful projects developing resources for URN.   Over recent years, she has served as director of the University of Rouen language school and currently holds the positions of regional coordinator and member of the accreditation body for the Nulte-recognised language certification CLES.  Since 2008 she has been involved with European Commission-funded projects on innovative teaching spaces and was a founding member of the Future Classroom lab in France.  Since the launch of the INGENIUM alliance she has actively contributed to establishing language and certification policy as well as to the creation of the ILANET language policy and centre network. She was member of the research team for Internationalisation and Interculturalism in Three European Contexts (2025). She is co-author of Ingenium on-line courses for Academic English and intercultural communication (ICC), and directed the ‘A taste of  French’ language course creation.  She is currently member of the INGENIUM ICC WP9.3 group and a co-facilitator in an ICC badges course: https://opencourses.ie/opencourse/developing-intercultural-awareness-2/