Intercultural Cities documents
Intercultural cities concept
- The origins of the intercultural concept
- What is an intercultural city? [Infographic]
- Intercultural Cities Brochure
- Why and how to join the ICC network?
- ICC Index: questionnaire
- ICC Medium-term strategy - 2016-2019
- Intercultural Integration Model
- Step-By-Step guide
- Evaluating the performance and impact of intercultural policies
- Designing intercultural strategies with citizens : a handbook
- Research evidence supporting the intercultural cities approach
- Normative basis - European standards
- The intercultural integration approach: cities realising the diversity advantage
- Correlation study: Interculturalism and city development and cohesion
- Quantitative comparability study of the ICC Index and the quality of life data - Dr. Kseniya Rubicondo - November 2016
Annual report
Thematic papers
Refugees
- Arrival of Refugees in Your City: To-Do List
- Social Innovation for Refugee Inclusion Conference report with lessons learnt (12-13 September 2016)
- Study visit on Refugee inclusion - Bergen (Norway), 9-10 June 2016 - Report
- 1st Portuguese Intercultural Cities Network Workshop (RPCI) “The question of refugees” (25 January 2016, Bobadela, Portugal)
- Unlocking the potential of refugees and asylum seekers: intercultural approaches to integration (29-30 October 2015, Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
- Refugees welcome – Refugee integration policies in Berlin Neukölln
- Civil protection in diverse societies: migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in the context of major risks prevention and management by Oliver Freeman, Intercultural Management Consultant, Switzerland
Human Rights
Migrant representation
Diversity advantage
- Building trust in diversity: universities and cities joining forces (12-13 May 2015, Oslo, Norway)
- Faith in Intercultural Cities: Recognising religions as part of local diversity, and exploring how they can contribute to the diversity advantage of cities by Dr Andrew Orton, Durham University
- Report: workshop on multilingualism as a resource for cities (18-19 September 2014, Bilbao, Spain) by Dr Loma Carson
- You Scratch My Back: Good Practices of Diversity Advantage by Phil Wood
Business
- Business partnerships with migrants’ countries of origin: sharing the diversity advantage by Oliver Freeman
- Business partnerships for the Intercultural City: Making the Diversity Advantage real
Public spaces
- The Effectiveness of Intercultural Centres in creating Convivial, Diverse Public Spaces and Enhancing Community Safety by Jude Bloomfield
- Report: Intercultural Pathways to Urban Safety ‘How do Cities and Citizens Benefit? by Marten van Harten M.A., ICC expert
- Public Space Management: Report to the Intercultural Cities Research Programme
- Intercultural spaces and centres: models and role for intercultural development in cities
- Intercultural Place-Making
Managing public perceptions
- Community empowerment and mediation from an intercultural perspective (28-29 September 2015, Barcelona)
- Media and the intercultural city
- Citizenship and participation in the intercultural city
- Cultural policy for the intercultural city
- Cities free of rumours: How to build an anti-rumour strategy in my city (C4I)
- Shaping perceptions and attitudes to realise the diversity advantage (SPARDA): brochure
- IPSOS Report: SPARDA, Findings from Wave two and Recommendations (June 2012)
Religious minorities
- Organising intercultural and interreligious activities - a toolkit for local authorities
- Tackling Prejudice and Engaging with Religious Minorities - How Cities Can Make a Difference with an Intercultural Approach (Italian version / Spanish version)
Coordinators meeting
Intercultural profiles
- Berlin Neukölln (Germany)
- Bergen (Norway)
- Bilbao (Spain)
- Botkyrka (Sweden)
- Braga (Portugal)
- Bucharest (Romania)
- Cartagena (Spain)
- Cascais (Portugal)
- Copenhagen (Denmark)
- Dublin (Ireland)
- Geneva (Switzerland)
- Haifa (Israel)
- Ioannina (Greece)
- Izhesvk (Russian Federation)
- Limassol (Cyprus)
- Limerick (Ireland)
- Lisbon (Portugal)
- Logrono (Spain)
- London Lewisham (United Kingdom)
- Lublin (Poland)
- Lutsk (Ukraine)
- Lyon (France)
- Melitopol (Ukraine)
- Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
- Novellara (Italy)
- Odessa (Ukraine)
- Oslo (Norway)
- Patras (Greece)
- Pavlohrad (Ukraine)
- Reggio Emilia (Italy)
- Reykjavik (Iceland)
- Rijeka (Croatia)
- Rotterdam (Netherlands)
- Sabadell (Spain)
- San Sebastian (Spain)
- Santa Maria da Feira (Portugal)
- Setubal (Portugal)
- Stavanger (Norway)
- Strasbourg (France)
- Subotica (Serbia)
- Tenerife (Spain)
- Tilburg (Netherlands)
- Valletta (Malta)
- Vinnytsia (Ukraine)
Policy briefs
- Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Strategies for the Intercultural City (August 2017)
- Refugee policies for the intercultural city (2017)
- Migrant-enterprise policies for the intercultural city (2017)
- Political communication and intercultural messaging in times of crisis (2016)
- Urban policies for intercultural centres and community engagement
- Urban policies for intercultural education
- Engaging with faith and convictional communities in the Intercultural city
- Intercultural approach to urban safety
- Language policies for the intercultural city
Normative texts of the Council of Europe
Committee of Ministers
- White Paper on Intercultural Dialogue. Living Together As Equals in Dignity
- Declaration of the Committee of Ministers on the role of community media in promoting social cohesion and intercultural dialogue
- Guidelines of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the protection and promotion of Human rights in culturally diverse societies (adopted on 2 March 2016)
- Recommendation CM/Rec(2015)1 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on intercultural integration
- Recommendation CM/Rec(2011)2 of the Committee of Ministers on validating migrants’ skills
- Recommendation CM/Rec(2011)1 of the Committee of Ministers on interaction between migrants and receiving societies
- Recommendation CM/Rec(2008)10 of the Committee of Ministers on improving access of migrants and persons of immigrant background to employment
- Recommendation CM/Rec(2008)4 of the Committee of Ministers on strengthening the integration of children of migrants and of immigrant background
- Recommendation CM/Rec(2007)10 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on co-development and migrants working for development in their countries of origin
- Recommendation CM/Rec(2007)2 of the Committee of Ministers on media pluralism and diversity of media content
- Recommendation (2006)18 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on health services in a multicultural society
- Recommendation Rec(2006)9 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on the admission, rights and obligations of migrant students and co-operation with countries of origin
- Recommendation Rec(2004)2 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on the access of non-nationals to employment in the public sector
- Recommendation R (97) 21 of the Committee of Ministers on the media and the promotion of a culture of tolerance
- Recommendation R (92)12 of the Committee of Ministers on community relations
- Recommendation R (84)7 on the maintenance of migrants' cultural links with their countries of origin and leisure facilities
Parliamentary Assemby
- Resolution 2176 (2017) - Integration of refugees in times of critical pressure: learning from recent experience and examples of best practice
- Recommendation 2080(2015) - Freedom of religion and living together in a democratic society
- Recommendation 2049(2014) - Identities and diversity within intercultural societies
- Recommendation 2034(2014) - Integration tests: helping or hindering integration?
- Recommendation 1987(2011) - Combating all forms of discrimination based on religion
- Recommendation 1975(2011) - Living together in 21st-century Europe: follow-up to the report of the Group of Eminent Persons of the Council of Europe
- Recommendation 1970(2011) - Protecting migrant women in the labour market
- Recommendation 1962(2011) - The religious dimension of intercultural dialogue
- Recommendation 1917(2010) - Migrants and refugees: a continuing challenge for the Council of Europe
- Recommendation 1840(2008) - State of democracy in Europe Measures to improve the democratic participation of migrants
- Recommendation 1839(2008) - The state of democracy in Europe Specific challenges facing European democracies: the case of diversity and migration
Congress of Local and Regional Authorities
- MIGRANTS AND INTEGRATION - Reference texts of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities (Last update: 3 Nov. 2016)
- Recommendation 365(2014) of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities on Promoting diversity through intercultural education and communication strategies
- Recommendation 304 (2011) of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities on meeting the challenge of inter-faith and intercultural tensions at local level
- Recommendation 262 (2009) of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities on Equality and diversity in local authority employment and service provision
- Recommendation 261 (2009) of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities on intercultural cities
- Recommendation 194 (2006) of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities on effective access to social rights for immigrants
- Recommendation 153 (2004) of the Congress of the Local and Regional Authorities, “A pact for the integration and participation of people of immigrant origin in Europe’s towns, cities and regions”
European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI)
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Other languages
German
- Was ist Intercultural Cities and warum Intercultural Cities beitreten?
- Intercultural Cities" in Deutschland : ein Modell für die interkulturelle Integration von Flüchtlingen und MigrantInnen
- Intercultural Cities in Deutschland : ein Modell zur Bekämpfung von Vorurteilen, Stereotypen und rassistischen Gesinnungen
- "Flüchtlinge willkommen" - Flüchtlingsintegrationspolitik in Berlin Neukölln
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