Introduction:

The preparatory school has a heterogeneous student universe, made up of diverse nationalities, ages, genders, religions, ideologies, thoughts, as well as educational and axiological influences, which deserves special attention in determining the modes of action.

Objective:

To propose guiding ideas that support the intercultural coexistence plan for the students from Facultad Preparatoria de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana.

Authors' position:

Due to the characteristics of the enrollment within this preparatory school, with a diverse historical and cultural context, it is necessary to have an intercultural coexistence plan based on guiding ideas, which responds to this diversity, while the educational work is aimed at values education, knowledge of regulations to exercise rights and fulfill duties, as well as to give educational treatment to day-to-day conflicts.

These guiding ideas of the intercultural coexistence plan as an educational resource contain capacity building strategies and actions, associated with values education, interculturality, acceptance of cultural diversity, and inclusion.

Conclusions:

The proposed guiding ideas have the purpose of orienting concrete aspects that support the intercultural coexistence plan of this preparatory school, which guide the educational actions, from the integrative approach for compliance with regulations, values education and conflict resolution in an educational way. All this is achieved with capacity building strategies and actions planned in a context in which students have a great cultural diversity, thus contributing to raise the quality of education.