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 An initiative to explore the Intercultural cities concept in the US
context
The Centre for the Study of Social Policy and the California Endowment
convened a consultative meeting on 24 and 25 May in Washington to
compare US and European approaches to migrant integration and diversity
management and explore the validity of the
Intercultural cities concept
in the US context. Representatives of Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Washington DC, Montgomery County, the National League of Cities, the
Council of Europe, Dublin, and Copenhagen, as well as a range of think
tanks and organisations discussed the potential of setting up a leaning
community within the US to build a body of knowledge and practice around
the Intercultural cities' concept. Following Japan, US are likely
to become the second non-European country to embrace the potential of
Intercultural cities for a positive change in integration thinking and
policy-making. [29/05/2012]
 Technical
Co-operation and Consultancy Programme: fact-finding mission in the Republic of
Moldova
In the framework of the
Technical Co-operation and Consultancy Programme related to the integrated conservation of the cultural and natural heritage and at the request of the authorities, a fact-finding mission will take place on 5-7 June 2012 in the Republic of Moldova.
The experts appointed by the Council of Europe are: Mrs Françoise Duperroy, Director of Heritage Protection, Walloon Public Service (Belgium), Mr François Goven, General Inspector of Historic Monuments, Directorate General of Heritage, Ministry of Culture and Communication (France) and Mr Mircea Angelescu, Director of National Heritage, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Romania).
The experts will assess the heritage policy of the Republic of Moldova and make recommendations to strengthen the policy and implement a national strategy for heritage development.
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[29/05/2012]
 Shaping perceptions and attitudes to realise the diversity advantage (SPARDA):
Final Event
A final
SPARDA partners’ meeting will be organised on 12th of June, in the Council of Europe Office in Brussels. It will be followed on 13 June by a conference, which will be held in the Committee of Regions, to the attention of other European partners to present the results and lessons from SPARDA. The communication campaigns on diversity and integration in the seven partner cities and the results of the perception surveys will be presented and recommendations to policy makers and other local stakeholders for more effective communication strategies will be discussed.
[23/05/2012]
Special file
 22 May 2012: International Day for Biological Diversity -
"Marine biodiversity"
The Council of Europe celebrated the International Day for Biological Diversity and joins the global efforts to preserve marine biodiversity
Nearly 20 years ago, the United Nations proclaimed May 22 the International Day for Biological Diversity. The event has since been celebrated to emphasise the importance of conserving biodiversity on Earth as a foundation for our future on this Planet.
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[22/05/2012]
 Steering
Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape
The Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape (CDCPP) held its first meeting from 14
to 16 May 2012 in the Council of Europe.
Delegations from the 50 signatory States to the European Cultural Convention
were invited, as well as observers and international organisations and associations. The CDCPP dealt with the implementation of the activities in the 2012-2013 programme
of activities already approved by the Committee of Ministers. It had a
substantive discussion on how the sectors of culture, heritage and landscape can
make an integrated and transversal contribution to the aims of the Council of
Europe, and made proposals for future action to be submitted to the Committee of
Ministers. It also decided on the working methods and the structure of the
next plenary session in 2013 with a view to the best possible implementation of
the Terms of Reference.
[16/05/2012] Photo: Snežana Samardžić-Marković, Director General, DG Democracy
and Robert Palmer, Director, Democratic Governance, Culture and Diversity Directorate.
Special file
 4th
MARS National Media Encounter - Journalism & Media Training & Literacy
The 4th
MARS National Media Encounter - Journalism & Media Training & Literacy - will hold from 24 to 26 May 2012 in Cluj (Romania).
Co-organised by Active Watch / Media Monitoring Agency, the objective of this encounter is to allow trainers and educators to develop and to have access to pedagogical and methodological tools for journalism training and media literacy in order to allow journalism students and journalists to considering non discrimination and expression of diversity as an ongoing angle of media coverage.
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[11/05/2012]
 MARS National Media Encounter about Media Cross-Production
A
MARS National Media Encounter about Media Cross-Production
was held in Dublin (Ireland) from 25 to 28 April 2012. The aim of this encounter is to encourage, by organising national media encounters, pairings of media professionals with a view to co-produce and co-disseminate high-quality and professional written or audiovisual media reports on sports’ issues, even if not exclusively, including non-discrimination and expression of diversity as an angle of media coverage.
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[04/05/2012]
 Bureau of the Bern Convention's Standing Committee
The Bureau of the
Bern Convention's Standing Committee met in Strasbourg on 23rd April 2012 to review the implementation of the annual Programme of Activities, as well as to discuss the state of progress of the case-files and other complaints lodged, the strategic development of the Convention, and the results of the meeting of the Group of Specialists on the European Diploma of Protected Areas.
[26/04/2012]
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