Claire Rimmer has over fifteen years’ experience working on issues of integration, migration and asylum, at city, national and European levels, as part of her work at the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) as well as with different civil society and refugee community networks. Her experience includes policy analysis on migration and refugee issues, comparative research, intercultural training, policy briefs, and knowledge sharing on a wide variety of topics including integration, the Common European Asylum System, return and children in migration. She has extensive experience in supporting networks and capacity building from grass roots to European level. She has worked on integration projects at city level with refugee communities in London, Athens, Moscow, Odessa and Chisinau. Claire has also supported diaspora communities to develop their own European and transnational programmes including development projects for women and other vulnerable groups in Afghanistan.
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).
