Immigration has become a phenomenon that affects most EU-countries. Theautochthon or indigenous populations, accustomed to live and work in homogenoussocial environments, often perceive immigrants as a risk and a threat to their owngrowth and social stability.It is necessary to assist immigrants and new community groups to understand andadapt to their new environments and support the immigration processes inmunicipalities that are interacting with new immigrants. To respond to this challenge, the(often overworked) municipal players, such as personnel of public institutions, socialand health services and local business actors, have to be trained and educated inintercultural competences.The "4InterCult-Project" aims at developing a paradigm for intercultural training andeducation, applicable throughout the European municipalities and which will deliver tolocal authorities specific intercultural techniques necessary to manage the impact ofimmigration. The development of the training paradigm unites four partners:- the Italian municipality of Viadana- the European Council for Intercultural Education and Training (with headquarters inLuxembourg)- the Milan Bicocca University- the Irish expert body on Racism and Interculturalism (NCRRI).The project adopts a "blended learning" method which combines a teacher-led,synchronous approach and an online, asynchronous, post-seminar component as afollow-up between partners and participants. Furthermore, the innovative approach"learning by teaching" defines the specific necessities and helps to develop a scientific,quantifiable cultural self-assessment methodology.A Webpage will serve as dissemination (ex ante) and exploitation (ex post) medium.The results and the material shall be published in IT, DE, FR and EN in order to enableall municipalities concerned to conduct their own successful training on interculturalskills in order to reduce and avoid the social conflicts that arise in untutored multiculturalsocieties and instead to benefit from the contributions of immigrants.