Jessica Febvre
France
I enrolled for the ICM study program in 2015. I was part of the first generation of ICM students. In Dijon, we formed an awesome multinational group. We then all moved to Helsinki to complete our second year.
Previously, I had a master’s in anglophone culture and literature. The focus of my first master’s was “The sense of alienation in contemporary American literature”. Back then, I was already studying North American culture through its literature and got even more interested in the impact of the 9/11 attacks on the forms and content of American literature.
In parallel with my thesis writing, I was a French Teaching Associate in Brown University, Rhode Island. In Brown, I met incredible and bright people, which motivated my career change towards a more global, team-oriented career plan.
In the course of 2017, I expect to do an internship in Human Resources, more specifically as a global mobility manager. As the ICM program offers a wide range of career opportunities, I also consider working as a project manager or in internal communication in a multinational organization.
multicultural teams to achieve a productive working environment, even when employees/team members may hold vastly different conceptions of hierarchies, power distances, and their own position within the team.
Alice Nitsch
Germany
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revious studies: Bachelor’s in Slavic Studies and Communication Science
Previous experience: Internships in the field of journalism and marketing (PR and social media) in international and local companies. Voluntary work as member and board member of AEGEE-Bamberg (NGO).
Career plan: Communication specialist in an intercultural/international environment
Working, discussing, living, and having fun with young people from different cultures, inside and outside classes, is exactly what prepares you as an ICM student to become a very good Intercultural Manager. The ICM master’s program is a perfect package of intercultural and international experience in both theory and practice. It gives me the perfect opportunity to study for an international master’s which A) is truly international since the students are from different countries/cultures, B) offers experience abroad with doing an exchange semester, and C) provides working experience with the internship which takes place in the fourth semester (which we again can do abroad). What a chance!
Lucie Koch
Switzerland
I’m 23. Although I am of Swiss nationality, I was born, raised and educated in France. Prior to ICM, I completed an LEA (Applied Foreign Languages) bachelor’s at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, as well as in the University of Durham in the UK thanks to a one-year Erasmus+ mobility. The ICM master’s programme has been very enriching, especially thanks to its semester abroad and the diversity of the students.
Marine Dudoit
France
« I wanted to study intercultural management and it was the first master in France that existed truly about interculturality ans that was from a public uni and not a business school. »
Update from November 2019:
Current position: Associate Sales Consultant in International Recruitment
« The master helped me in giving me a more theoretical framework to interculturality. It shaped me also in terms of research methodology and deepened my cultural awareness. Although it is something I apply personally in my daily job with candidates and colleagues, at the company level it is still something I am trying to apply and to combine while advancing in my career. There is not one way to work with interculturality. »
Sona Yeghiazaryan
Armenia
I am from Yerevan the capital city of Armenia. I was lucky to be one of the first ICM students. In 2012 I got my BA in Linguistics, Russian Language. Since 2011 I have been a member of youth NGO AEGEE-Yerevan. I was elected twice as board member: financial manager and President. My membership gave me an opportunity to travel and meet people from different countries and I fell in love with different cultures. When I read the ICM description I had no doubts that I should apply. This course is a great mixture of cultural studies and management, exchange semester gives an opportunity to travel and experience the culture (Finnish in my case) we studied in Dijon. The multi-ethnic group is already a great experience of cultural varieties. Being from different countries and having different cultural backgrounds gives students an opportunity to learn from each other and share the knowledge they already have.
ICM gives a wide choice of career opportunities and this flexibility is what I like. After my studies I plan to be back home and work as an intercultural youth trainer. That will give me the opportunity to raise awareness about other cultures, share my knowledge and experience nationalism, stereotypes and prejudices that might exist. Youth is the future of every country and working with them is what I plan to do.
