EU Intercultural heritage 2008 promotion

The European Commission has decided to launch a call for ideas addressed to civil society and all other interested parties ideas for ways of promoting multicultural and multi-ethnic awareness across the EU.

This process will enable the Commission to define guidelines for future calls for proposals, which will be published in 2007, in the framework of the Year of Intercultural Dialogue.

Aim of the Year of Intercultural Dialogue:
To alert all the people living in the European Union to the fact that dialogue represents a prerequisite for living in, and benefiting from, an increasingly multicultural environment. This initiative will concentrate on intercultural dialogue wherever it could contribute to improved day to day coexistence.

The ideas put forward by interested partners will concern the following three fundamental questions for preparing the Year of Intercultural Dialogue:

• A) How can one contribute towards identifying, evaluating, developing and exchanging projects, experience and good practice in intercultural dialogue on a European scale?
• B) What information and communication initiatives could contribute towards involving all European Union residents, and particularly young people, in the promotion of intercultural dialogue in day to day life (e.g. schools and other places of education, sporting and cultural activities, the workplace, etc.) and familiarising them with it?
• C) What specific European scale initiatives likely to reach, directly or indirectly, as many people in the European Union as possible – and particularly young people – could contribute towards promoting intercultural dialogue?

In order to simplify the processing of contributions, applications are requested to be completed online via this application form

The closing date for submitting contributions is 30October2006. We would encourage you, however, to send in your replies as soon as possible.

Further information can be found online here