Frequently Asked Questions

By encouraging you to engage with other students from different countries and cultures, this program will help you understand the role culture plays in communication and interaction, and how activities are often experienced differently by the people involved. You will learn to understand the differences and similarities between your culture and the culture of another student, and develop skills which will enable you to adapt well to culturally unfamiliar settings, whether at University, in your everyday life or at work.

You will also:

• Receive a certificate (on successful completion of the program)
• Develop intercultural communication skills that can be applied to your everyday and professional interactions
• Increase your employability, at home and abroad
• Be able to count the hours spent on the program towards the Adelaide Graduate Award and CaRST

No, you may register for the program at any point throughout your studies here at the University of Adelaide, and your level of study does not matter. We welcome registrations from all University of Adelaide students.

We do our best to match each eligible student who registers, but, unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to place you as it also depends on the total number of students who register and their respective cultural backgrounds. If you cannot be considered for a specific round, you will be guaranteed to be matched in the next possible round. 

No, the EOI form only lets us know that you would be interested to participate in Global IQ Connect. Once registrations are open for any given round, you will need to first complete a an online Induction module. If you answer 8 out of 10 questions correctly, then you will automatically be directed to the online application form. You then will need to submit the registration form in order to be considered for the program. 

The program officially begins once you will be matched and uploaded by the Program Manager in MyUni. You will then receive a prompt through MyUni to contact your group members. This generally happens one week after registrations have closed for the round you registered for.

The program will be run over a period of five consecutive weeks. For more information see: 'How Does It Work?'

In the registration form, you can state if you would prefer to be in a group with at least one other students of the same gender as you. 

We are unable to accept preferences regarding the cultural background of the other student(s). In your working life, you will not get to choose the people you work with; you will experience working with people from all walks of life and cultural backgrounds that you are unfamiliar with, and we want this program to reflect that. However, you do have the option to self-match if you would like to participate with one or several fellow students.

BUT the other students you wish to be matched with (max. 4 members in total) need to be from different cultural backgrounds!

Yes, we encourage self-matching. Each of you will, however, need to fill in the application form separately and add the group members you wish to be matched with. Should you already have registered yet now wish to self-match, you will be able to do so by sending an email to globaliq_connect@adelaide.edu.au and provide the details of the students you would like to be self-matched with. But this change will only be possible in case you have not yet been matched by the Global IQ Connect Coordinator. 

Once the matching is over and you will have received the prompt through MyUni to contact your group members, you will have access to all the details you need (workshop dates, times & teaching rooms), starting with Workshop #1.

Each week you should catch up, on-campus or online, with all your group members, or at least with one of your group members, discuss the task given to you, introduce your respective cultures to each other (*) and reflect on the role culture plays in your life and in the way you react to situations. The catch-ups don’t need to be lengthy and they count towards the total of max. 15 hours you need to commit to when participating in this program. Please note that you and your group members manage the catch-ups. The Global IQ Connect Coordinator is not responsible for organising them. We strongly advise you plan them in advance and put them in your calendar.

Yes, it is crucial that you record the time you spend together as a team discussing cultural topics because it is a prerequisite to obtaining the certificate. You can claim the actual number of hours you spent in the program with a maximum of 15 hours towards the Adelaide Graduate Award, and a maximum of 6 hours (5 workshop hours) towards CaRST. We strongly recommend you log your hours each week. For the Adelaide Graduate Award you will need to provide a copy of your time log together with a screen shot of your electronic certificate.  

More information about how your Global IQ Connect hours can count towards the Adelaide Graduate Award and CaRST can be found on how does it work?, via the Adelaide Graduate Award website and via the CaRST website.

An important part of Global IQ Connect is your ability to reflect on your experience and the intercultural skills you have developed. Therefore, in order to receive a certificate for completing the program, you must submit several tasks, including two reflection pieces.  

 

This program is only five weeks long, so you need to communicate and get in touch with your group members as soon as you receive the confirmation notice through MyUni or latest at the first workshop ('Introduction'). Please contact the Program Manager within the first week if you cannot contact your group members or if they have notified you of their withdrawal. We will try our best to re-match you with another participant and group, although this cannot be guaranteed.

When registering for this program you need to commit to 2.5 - 3.0 hours per week to it. If you are however finding that you are not able to commit to this program, you may withdraw at any time, but please communicate this to the Program Manager as soon as possible, ideally before the matching process starts.