1. Enhance student learning
   Our research shows X-Culture improves cultural intelligence, international and virtual collaboration competencies, problem-solving skills, and interest in cross-cultural interactions.
2. Improve your teaching evaluations
   Students recognize the value of X-Culture. We see a significant improvement in teaching evaluations on every dimension in treatment (X-Culture) vs. control (no X-Culture) condition.
3. Research and publish
   X-Culture is a great research platform that provides high-quality multi-source multi-level longitudinal data.
4. Expand your professional network
   Hundreds of established and rising-star International Business scholars and educators, as well as business professionals on the X-Culture team.
5. Documented proof of your achievement
   Instructors whose students successfully complete the project receive X-Culture Global Educator certificates and support letters sent to the Deans/Department Heads (if requested). You do a great job; we make sure the world knows about it.
6. X-Culture certificates for your students
   Students who successfully complete the project receive a Global Collaboration certificate, which tends to help when applying for a job or promotion!
7. Change the face of International Business education
   Learning about International Business in the classroom is like learning to swim on a football field. The X-Culture team is developing new teaching methods for the new today. New global collaboration and education tools are introduced every day and we are putting them to good use in the classroom and workplace.

• Profit-free, but not a free ride: X-Culture is a not-for-profit project … but it’s not a free ride. The project runs on the effort and time of our team members – your time and effort.  You probably won’t have to spend much more time than what you spend on “domestic” team projects in your courses, but the quality and reliability demands of X-Culture are much higher. Skipping your chores is not an option – too many people depend on you. So get ready to get busy.
• Doing more with less: X-Culture is loved and praised by the academic and business communities, but we are yet to raise any noticeable funds. To remain effective with limited resources, we rely on efficiency. Much thought is put into optimizing interactions, coordination, and information management within our Team to reduce the transaction cost – and it works! That means, get ready for very detailed and demanding guidelines for most of your steps.  All participants must submit the requested materials on time, using the right templates, and always read the instructions first. Every time you slack or don’t follow the template, somebody has to fix it, and we don’t have that somebody to fix it for you.
• Evolving and deliberately loose rules: Most of the time though our rules are deliberately loose. What we do is very new and we simply don’t know the best way to do it yet. Therefore, we keep our policies flexible and minds open. If you see a better way to do things, share your insights. X-Culture is very much a work in progress and we could use good advice.
• Collegiality is the key: Collaboration and interdependency, limited resources, and changing environment – add to that dozens of papers in development that can make or break somebody’s career and you got yourself into a high-stakes game with a lot to lose and gain. Collegiality is how we keep it conflict-free, fair, and enjoyable for everyone.
• Frustrating at times, always rewarding in the end: And no matter how well it goes, there will be times when you will be overwhelmed and frustrated; there will be times when you may regret you got involved. But somehow, in the end, you will be happy you did.

X-Culture is a not-for-profit project.
We charge only a participation fee to cover our basic administrative expenses.

$250 per university, up to 50 students ($350 if more than 50 students)

• If the professor/university cannot pay the full fee, the professor can apply for a partial or full participation fee waiver (pay only $100 or $0).
• The waivers are available for professors/universities from “developing” countries, professors who receive no support from their universities, and must pay using their own funds, or from countries where banking regulations do not permit payments overseas.

up to $1,000

• If your university can support X-Culture at a higher level, we welcome sponsorship of up to $1,000 per university per semester.
• In exchange, we will fully acknowledge the sponsoring institution, share information about the university programs on the X-Culture website, and assign a teaching assignment to the professor to help with evaluating reports and managing the class otherwise.

$15 per student

• Starting this semester, professors can choose to assign the payment to their students.
• In this case, instead of the university/professor paying $250 for the entire class, each student pays $15 directly to X-Culture.