Afro Asiatisches Institut Salzburg – Austria

We attempt to offer opportunities and moments of intercultural and interreligious meetings through student advising, educational offers, the scholarship programme, and social events with students and partners from different countries. We stand behind meaningful, personal contact and exchange with others in an open social environment. We are also open to cooperating and partnerships with groups and communities from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, which seek to make their voices and culture heard within Salzburg.

The interreligious dialogue has a long tradition at Afro Asiatisches Institut Salzburg. Since 1990 interreligious and intercultural groups have been coming together in an open environment, which has promoted new ideas and cultural acceptance within Salzburg. Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and followers of Bahá´iI as well as followers of the Hindu and Sikh religious communities use Afro Asiatisches Institut Salzburg as a platform to regularly come together for exchange, discussion, and social events.

International culture events, language courses, public debates, presentations and readings are examples of successful intercultural encounters. The AAI´s educational and cultural programme focuses on the concerns and manifold resources in experience and knowledge of people from the Global South. To the fore come international and global themes which affect people all around the world, for instance global equity, human rights, gender topics or conflicts.