International and European

• Cities Cultural Policies in the context of immigrant-related diversity: towards a Mediterranean approach (2011)

Project financed by the Anna Lindh Foundation within the field of "Migration, cities and diversity" Ref: ALF/CFP/2010/ST2/105 (download flyer)

This project proposes a framework of reflection on how cities in the Mediterranean region can orientate their cultural policies in contexts of immigration-related diversity, paying special attention to the social dimension of policies. Academic scholars from departments in Barcelona, Tel Aviv, Lisbon and Oran, explore through case studies how cities can use cultural policies to turn their commitment to diversity into actions. The project evolves around the elaboration of recommendations for a notion of a culture of diversity needed in the Mediterranean region and also suggestions of basic policy recommendations that can help to contribute to this notion. The Research Centers that together conduct a conceptual-based research report on cities cultural policies, are: GRITIM (Interdisciplinary Research Group in Immigration) at the Department of Political and Social Science of Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Ben Gurion University Department of Politics and Government at the Department of Sociology in Tel Aviv, Centro de Estudos Geográficos da Universidade de Lisboa in Lison and the Department of Sociology of Université d'Oran.

The project aims to investigate whether European societies have become more or less tolerant during the past 20 years. Bringing together empirical and theoretical findings, ACCEPT PLURALISM generates a State of the Art Report on Tolerance and Cultural Diversity in Europe targeting policy makers, NGOs and practitioners, a Handbook on Ideas of Tolerance and Cultural Diversity in Europe aimed to be used at upper high school level and with local/national policy makers, a Tolerance Indicators' Toolkit where qualitative and quantitative indicators may be used to score each country's performance on tolerating cultural diversity, and a book on Tolerance, Pluralism and Cultural Diversity in Europe, mainly aimed to an academic readership.

The project includes direct communication with and input from policy makers, civil society, political and media actors for the dissemination and exploitation of its findings. The consortium is formed by 17 partner institutions and is coordinated at the RSCAS by Anna Triandafyllidou and at GRITIM-UPF by Flora Burchianti.       

More information about the project:

Flyer (English) / Flyer(Spanish)

Workpackage 1 : Tolerance and diversity discourses in Spain
Workpackage 3 : Tolerance to cultural diversity in Spanish schools. Discourses and practices

Events:

Spanish Launch of Accept Pluralism - 9 March 2011