Coordinators of the Council of Europe’s Intercultural Cities (ICC) Programme and networks met in Braga and Vila Verde (Portugal) on 14-15 November 2024.
The annual meeting of ICC coordinators took stock of achievements, discussed challenges and possible solutions, exchanged ideas for future joint work and on how to strengthen the ICC Programme.
Other highlights included field visits to projects run by Vila Verde; workshops on how cities can tackle disinformation, build alternative narratives, and support the inclusion of Roma and Travellers* as well as a presentation of work from the national and regional ICC networks, the sharing of good practices, and a presentation of the results from the 2024 ICC intercity grants.
*The term “Roma and Travellers” is used at the Council of Europe to encompass the wide diversity of the groups covered by the work of the Council of Europe in this field: on the one hand a) Roma, Sinti/Manush, Calé, Kaale, Romanichals, Boyash/Rudari; b) Balkan Egyptians (Egyptians and Ashkali); c) Eastern groups (Dom, Lom and Abdal); and, on the other hand, groups such as Travellers, Yenish, and the populations designated under the administrative term “Gens du voyage”, as well as persons who identify themselves as Gypsies. The present is an explanatory footnote, not a definition of Roma and/or Travellers.
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