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ERIO at the Civil Society Platform for the Intercultural Dialogue

22 October 2012
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On March 5, 2007, ERIO participated in the second meeting of the Civil Society Platform for Intercultural Dialogue, which is a European network of NGOs dealing with social inclusion and cultural issues. The Platform aims at bringing together civil society actors in order to ensure that their voice will be heard in the design and implementation of the activities of the ‘ 2008 – European Year for the Intercultural Dialogue’ at European and national level. The meeting served to discuss the scope and goals of the ‘ 2008 – Year‘ and best practices related to promoting intercultural dialogue.

During the event, Xavier Troussard, Head of Unit for Culture of the DG Education and Culture of the European Commission, expressed that the EC welcomes recommendations and other inputs from NGOs for a better design and implementation of the activities of the ‘ 2008 – European Year for Intercultural Dialogue’. Nevertheless, he stressed the fact that the EC would not necessarily incorporate all the inputs coming from the NGOs. Mr. Troussard announced the implementation of the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) in the framework of the ‘ 2008 – Year’ activities. The OMC will serve to exchange best practices from the field culture between the different member states.

Four workshops were carried out in the framework of the meeting. Guillermo Ruiz, ERIO’s Policy Officer, made a presentation to the workshop on Intercultural Management and Governance of NGOs. He pointed out that even among the large part of NGOs there is a lack of awareness of discrimination faced by Roma. Furthermore, he stated that NGOs should work closer with Roma organisations and individuals; Roma organisations should have an equal participation in project funds; and Roma, as staff of NGOs, should be promoted.

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