EU stelt programma "interculturele stad" open voor nieuwe steden (en)

The Council of Europe and the European Commission are looking for new experts to support their Joint action on Intercultural cities

Intercultural cities began in 2008 as a pilot action developing a multi-disciplinary and culturally sensitive approach to integration called "intercultural integration".

It aims at accompanying cities in a comprehensive and deep process of change and development, actively involving a broad range of stakeholders, including policy-makers, professionals, civil society, businesses and media in a process of development of urban intercultural strategies. Peer mentoring and support are a key aspect of Intercultural cities’ methodology, along with expert advice.

In 2011, a new two-years phase of the project will be launched.

This phase will :

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  Enlarge in a limited way the international network (taking in a maximum of 11 new cities) and accompany the new cities through their policy review and intercultural strategy development, as well as further support such processes in pilot cities;

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  Further validate and develop the Intercultural integration approach through monitoring of processes in cites and research;

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  Disseminate the Intercultural integration approach to more cities through the setting up of national networks.

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  Prepare a possible future scaling-up of the programme through the development of comprehensive documentation and the enlargement of the expert pool.

In order to achieve these goals, the Intercultural cities programme is calling for experts who wish to be involved in the second phase.

Details on selection criteria