Platform For Intercultural Europe
General
The platform for intercultural europe is a concrete legacy of the european year of intercultural dialogue 2008. Launched in partnership with the culture action europe, this cross-sectoral civil society initiative gathers today nearly 400 organisations that are committed to intercultural dialogue as practice but also policy objective. It aims to advance the agenda of interculturalism from the local to the European policy level. Its establishment acts both as a mark of what has been achieved and a spur for future development.
The platform is supported by the Network of European Foundations (NEF).
Read about it!
The complete version of the Rainbow Paper is available in English, French and German on the bottom of this page. If you want to read more about the outlines of the paper, a summary is available in English, French and Spanish.
The platform & diversity
Activities focus on capacity-building of organizations in the way they meet the diversity challenge, and on political leverage and advocacy. The platform approaches the topic of diversity on two fronts. It explores Europe's diversity as it has been fashioned by history and demography as well as the ‘new diversity' resulting from recent migration. Special attention is given to urban contexts where diversity is most directly experienced. Learning from diversity and using its potential to the full guide every of its actions.
WHO
While the Platform is an initiative of the cultural sector, organizations from the fields of education, youth, social affairs, human rights, migration, anti-discrimination, etc., are invited as equal partners to shape the Platform. Cross-sector collaboration is key to the Platform's aim of advancing learning from the intercultural experience.
Key objectives
- share the concepts and practice of intercultural dialogue
- work towards integrated strategies for intercultural dialogue
- mobilise all sectors concerned so that they have a voice
- contribute to policy analysis and development
- influence policymaking
- keep Intercultural Dialogue on the agenda, beyond the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue
- promote the implementation of the recommendations in the Rainbow Paper within the civil society sector and within the European institutions and the member states in the Open Method of Coordination
Key documents / Past Events
- The final Rainbow Paper, 25th September 2008 - this his paper is the result of the participative process in which many organisations came together to shape the voice of European civil society in the field of Intercultural Dialogue. The signatories ofthis paper thus recognise this voice as their own and commit to making it heard politically. English, Français, Deutsch
- The Rainbow Paper II, English, Français, Deutsch
- READ the wrap-up paper of the "Negotiating differences - a responsibility of artists and cultural institutions"debate, designed by ECF and Culture Action Europe in the framework of the EC organised so-called Brussel Debates
- READ Jette Sandahl´s (Director of the City Museum of Copenhagen) speech, one of the key-speakers of "Negotiating differences - a responsibility of artists and cultural institutions"
- The Rainbow paper I, the fruit of a year-long exchange of views involving over a hundred civil society organisations across Europe. It was presented at the launch of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue (EYID) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, January 2008 READ
- The Background paper
- First Platform meeting 24 November 2006: Report
Contact
Culture Action Europe: Sabine Frank secretary general Platform for Intercultural Europe
ECF: Isabelle Schwarz
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