The Intercultural Cities (ICCs) are working hard on ensuring inclusive integration and equal rights and opportunities for the people that chose Europe as host continent, after being uprooted because of conflicts and instability in their own countries.

On 20 June, the Intercultural Cities network has celebrated the World Refugee Day through a dedicated campaign under the slogan “Share our cities – Share the future”. The campaign aimed to promote migrants as a resource for local economic, social and cultural development, rather than threat or a burden for the host society. The Slogan has been chosen through a participatory process on social media and translated in 9 national or local languages.

Around 20 cities have adopted the ICC slogan and visual to mark their own celebratory events for the World Refugee Day. On Twitter, ICC Tweets earned 30.800 impressions while the ICC Facebook page earned almost 63.000 impressions during the Refugee week, engaging 690 actions. On the same occasion, the ICC Secretariat has published an interactive story map highlighting the most successful initiatives implemented by the intercultural cities in the field of refugee inclusion.