Sérgio Xavier designs and runs training courses on human rights and democracy, at local and international level. He is a member of the Youth Department of the Council of Europe trainer’s pool. He was responsible for training the Youth delegation at the World Forum on Democracy (Strasbourg, 2013) and he was trainer in ToTHRE - Training of Trainers in Human Rights Education (Council of Europe, 2013-14). He was policy advisor to the Deputy Mayor for Social Rights in the Lisbon City Council in the areas of Human Rights, Participation and Youth (2013-17). He designed and coordinated SOMOS – the Lisbon Programme for Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights. He is a PhD student in the course "Democracy in the 21st Century" in CES - Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra. His PhD topic is "democratic education".
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).
