The term "transcultural competence" is understood to mean the ability to meet other people without prejudice, not to pigeonhole them with "cultural labels". The documents below deal with this topic.
 

Addressing target groups without labeling them: (How) is that possible? The integration promotion team of the City of Zurich has investigated this question. WITH STRUB, a practical instrument for structured collegial advice on the effects and side effects of integration projects has been developed. The instrument is suitable for team-internal application in the development of projects for specific integration promotion.

As part of an article for the journal "Migration and Social Work" (issue 3/18), the STRUB instrument is embedded in the work of promoting integration. It is about the importance of symbolic politics, the danger of culturalization traps, the promotion of transcultural competences in administrative work and ultimately about dealing as consciously as possible with the desired and undesirable side effects of integration work.

In the search for suitable training opportunities to promote transcultural competence, urban authorities are confronted with a variety of needs, offers and methods. Finding the right offer here is not easy. To help with this, the Promotion of Integration has developed a discussion paper. It supports municipal authorities in their search for tailor-made training solutions.

Anyone who works in the field of "integration" must necessarily deal with the concept of culture. This appears in various contexts, not least in words such as multicultural society, intercultural translation or transcultural competence.
It is a constant challenge to have to work with an insufficiently good or even "wrong" term. The article "There are no cultures" gives an overview of the development of the concept of culture and how to deal with it.  
The article was published in «Stadtblick 26», September 2012.