Intercultural cities experts

A range of international experts participate to support the Intercultural cities programme.

Their tasks include, inter alia:

Drafting analytical reports on cities’ results on the Intercultural cities’ index;
Participating in monitoring visits and preparing reports such as the Intercultural profiles of member cities;
Providing advice to cities in the context of the preparation of their intercultural strategies;
Preparing thematic events and drafting reports and policy briefs based on the results;
Providing advice and training in specific areas (eg myth-busting, intercultural competence, political communication);
Providing policy advice in specific areas (education, culture, housing, economic development, social services, urban planning, impact evaluation etc.);
Managing national intercultural cities networks;
Designing and managing specific projects (eg. awareness campaigns).

ICC experts

Back CALADO Carla

Trainer, project manager, advisor and facilitator

Carla Calado is the Portuguese Intercultural City Network Coordinator since 2018. She has a master degree in Community Psychology and extensive experience as a trainer, project manager, advisor and facilitator. Over the years, she has also become skilled in coordinating and enhancing collaborative work through networks of different people and organisations, in the field of social change, mainly in the areas of education, employment, civil society engagement and active participation, social entrepreneurship, alternative economies, interculturality and migrant inclusion.

She has been the chairperson of an NGO and working in the community development field for 20 years. Currently she provides consultancy services for several organisations. Since 2021, she has led the creation and management of the Portuguese Intercultural Cities cooperative.

In recent times she has been working in the diversity and inclusion area, mainly promoting practice sharing opportunities, delivering trainings and awareness raising sessions and co-creating tools to foster diversity among employers, through the Portuguese Diversity Charter and the Diversity@Work project, as well as intercultural competence trainings for several public services.