Purpose:
Support culturally diverse NGO to enhance participation of migrants, ethnic minorities and local citizens in the life of the city and to mainstream the intercultural approach.
Process:
The initiative consists in giving grants to culturally diverse people and NGOs in order to implement projects which promote the participation of migrants, ethnic minorities and local citizens in activities that foster coexistence and interaction. These projects will consist of: welcoming, awareness raising, participation or training activities and will aim at increasing the visibility, acknowledgement and respect of rights, diversity, languages and religions. They are also intended to foster interculturality as an asset in different areas such as education, youth, human rights, gender equality and others.
This initiative empowers citizens with a migrant or ethnic background and those associations working in favour of interculturality, and supports them to build up their own projects, those that are more suitable and answer to their specific needs. It also provides them the chance to enhance the value of their own cultures and bring together local people and other culturally diverse citizens.
Call for proposals and criteria
An open call is announced and NGOs submit applications on a yearly basis. These organisations have to have their headquarters in the city or be working for the benefit of the city. A maximum of two projects can be submitted by each NGO. The call is widely announced on the city’s website and forwarded directly to NGOs of migrant people by email.
All the projects received are evaluated and they benefit from a grant according to the score received. The city will finance each project up to a maximum of 80% of the estimated budget, so as to encourage NGOs to look for complementary means of funding.
Last, NGOs receive training courses on planning and project’s designing.
Impact:
In 2023, 35 projects of 30 local NGOs were granted with a total amount of 90.000€.
Impact includes some of the initiatives that are subsidised:
- A federated football team made up of migrant people that offers them the possibility of playing in the league and supports the process of empowerment and social inclusion of people of migrant origin, as well as intercultural coexistence.
- Radio programmes with migrant people as protagonists, participating in the process of editing the programme and being interviewed in turn. Five podcasts have been produced.
- Workshops on the history of the Roma population in schools and support for the maintenance of a centre in which the Roma community offers workshops related to their culture and identity, talks, historical memory, etc.
- Awareness-raising workshops for children and teenagers to promote interculturality, sexual diversity in intercultural environments...
- Accompaniment and mentoring programmes for young people, refugees, migrants, etc... to favour their process of social, economic and labour inclusion.
Key reference documents: more information
