03/09/2026
🧩 Every team works with invisible rules.
Some are clear. Many are not.
In international Higher Education and research teams, people may bring different expectations about communication, hierarchy, feedback, deadlines or decision-making.
And sometimes, conflict does not begin with a major disagreement.
It begins with small misunderstandings:
💬 “Why didn’t they say anything?”
⏰ “Why was this not treated as urgent?”
🤝 “Was that feedback too direct?”
🧠 “Did we actually agree, or did we just avoid disagreement?”
🌍 “Are we interpreting this situation in the same way?”
SOLSTICE focuses on these hidden layers of collaboration.
By promoting cultural awareness, reflective practice and solution-focused approaches, the project helps teams make expectations more visible and create shared ways of working.
Because collaboration becomes stronger when teams stop guessing what others mean — and start building understanding together.
👉 Learn more about SOLSTICE:
🌐 https://solsticeproject.eu