The city of Klaksvík is revising its integration policy to expand upon a city that is for everyone to everyone involved. The first integration policy laid an integration foundation of understanding, belonging, and promotion. Today, Klaksvík wants to add involvement that naturally brings out engagement on all levels of the community: local government, private sector, and the community. Klaksvík believes a key recipe of success for interculturality is relationships and involvement is one way to encourage relationships with each other.

The city has set a workgroup composed of department directors, city personnel, and council chairwoman of the development committee, to take the lead in updating the integration policy. The workgroup is at an initial planning stage reviewing the successes and gaps of the first integration policy. An overarching goal for the workgroup is to sharpen the intercultural lens for the city, private sector, and the community to actively work and engage with each other meaningfully.

As a small community and a member of Intercultural Cities programme, Klaksvík draws on many inspirational practices, insightful information and guidelines from the ICC programme. The workgroup uses the ICC guidelines to work more efficiently, especially in areas where the workgroup can draw on relevant experiences and similar context within the ICC network.

The work group aims to have a proposal end of this year.