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The City Council of Cartagena participated on April 25, 26 and 27 at the XIV Meeting of the Network of Intercultural Cities of Spain (RECI) and the Thematic Seminar "Convivir in inclusive democracies: how can the intercultural approach encourage participation in societies diverse? ", which was held at the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Exhibition Center, with a busy schedule of activities.
The RECI depends on the European Intercultural Citie Network (ICC) and the Council of Europe and has the collaboration of the Obra Social La Caixa Foundation.
Cartagena belongs to this network of cities since its inception in 2011.
The day opened on Wednesday 25, contextualizing the RECI project and setting out the meeting objectives, as well as explaining the work agenda 2018-2019, in which the intervention of the Council of Europe through Ivana d'Alessandro, Chief of Intercultural Cities Unit of said Council.
The newly incorporated ICI cities were also announced: Madrid, Malaga and Salt.
The session continued with interventions aimed at discussing how to explain interculturality to the actors involved in its implementation, participation in management policies of what is different, practices, indicators, challenges and weaknesses.
On April 26 the working days of the Thematic Seminar "Living in inclusive democracies began: how can the intercultural approach encourage participation in diverse societies?" With the participation of representatives of 50 cities belonging to 14 European countries, within Intercultural Cities Seminar, an initiative promoted by the Council of Europe.
During these two days, members of the ICC (Network of European Intercultural Cities) have reflected on and worked to try to build an effective culture of participation based on respect for people, democracy and the rule of law.
Through the different talks, study of the experiences contributed by experts, presentations and debates to inspire the participants and give rise to the analysis of the effective promotion of human rights and the overcoming of the barriers for the coexistence between different cultures managing the diversity from the perspective of inclusion participation.
Different ideas and initiatives were presented through different working groups and shared experiences aimed at incorporating the intercultural approach, the development of inclusive methodological tools, social innovation and the implementation of public policies for the benefit of coexistence, respect, understanding and the feeling of community among people of different races, religions and cultures.
Finally, on the 27th the representatives of fourteen European countries, participants of the Thematic Seminar, visited to know in situ the examples of management of diversity existing on the Island of Tenerife, divided into four groups, visited the Project "Neighborhoods for Employment" In the town of La Cuesta, the Project of Intercultural Community Intervention of Taco, in El Fraile, European representatives visited the neighborhood where more than 70 nationalities coexist and a dozen religious communities where the initiative of common interreligious prayer is a symbolic example of development and community growth in territories with an important degree of cultural diversity based on respect, peace and coexistence.
The last group visited the University of La Laguna, in order to know the research work and connect the theory and practice carried out by the academic institution, in terms of participation and social inclusion.
There were also sessions of collaborative activity based on working groups that incorporated interesting experiences of all the participants in the field of intercultural social intervention as an innovative contribution at the local level, which concluded with an enriching debate on the results of the working groups.
-Incorporation of the intercultural approach to the development of inclusive and participatory tools for participatory democracy and local governance.
-.Social innovation for full intersectoral and inclusive participation in diverse communities (paying special attention to immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers, Roma, isolated groups, etc.)
-.Elaboration and joint implementation of public policies: definition, training, consultation and participation processes, tools and community assessment.
-.Methodologies and instruments for the development of inclusive participation in multicultural contexts (including the promotion of intercultural dialogue, mediation and conflict resolution).
Finally Ivana d'Alessandro, Head of the Intercultural Cities Unit of the Council of Europe was responsible for closing the seminar.
In which he especially valued the follow-up work carried out by the Council of Europe on prejudices and discrimination based on stereotypes of the Roma / itinerant community throughout Europe, and of the strategies implemented to address issues related to marginalization and exclusion of this group, to curb hostility as well as to test innovative models of inclusive policies at the local level through plans to promote social coexistence with an intercultural perspective based on action strategies in the area of ​​civil participation, and how to promote equality and the inclusion of migrants provides better levels of well-being and significant social advances in all senses, thus remaining as real evidence and not only as a recommendation of the Council of Europe.
The Network of Intercultural Cities (RECI-ICC) and the Council of Europe
The RECI depends on the European Intercultural Citie Network (ICC) and the Council of Europe and has the collaboration of the Obra Social La Caixa Foundation.
The Intercultural Cities Network (RECI) is a group of cities from different parts of Spain that are committed to promoting diversity management policies based on interculturality.
It provides a series of instruments and actions that want to facilitate its administration: to be able to manage and exploit the potential of the variety of cultures, stimulating creativity and innovation, as a key to generating economic prosperity, social cohesion and a better quality of life. life, understanding the heterogeneous society not only as a value but as a useful resource for the local development of a city.
Diversity as a value
Likewise, the Intercultural Cities project created by the Council of Europe in 2008 in a joint initiative with the European Commission, is based on the conviction that one of the great challenges of Europe is and will be the management of the growing diversity cultural in the continent.
The project aims to offer cities instruments to manage cultural plurality as a resource of dynamism and social and economic development, by stimulating creativity and innovation, with the ultimate goal of making diversity a source of prosperity economic, social cohesion and quality of life for all citizens.
The RECI was created in 2011, promoted by the Council of Europe, and is included in the European Intercultural Cities program ("Intercultural Cities").
It has the support of the "La Caixa" Foundation and the collaboration of the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Migrations, of the Pompleu Fabra University.
Cartagena belongs to this network of cities since its inception in 2011.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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