HOT Events Archive
World Forum for Democracy, Strasbourg, 5-11 October
The World Forum, held in Strasbourg on 5-11 October, enabled an exchange of experiences and perceptions and helped identify risks as well as possible answers to today’s societal challenges. It started with an opening ceremony on 8 October attended by leading international figures, followed by a meeting of experts from politics, civil society and academia. More
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HOT Press
euro|topics - Culture/Media
- Debate: Future of the EU: has Macron got it right?
- Melodramatic, but spot-on | Hospodářské noviny - Czech Republic
- More than just campaign bluster | Le Monde - France
- France's president in the starring role | La Stampa - Italy
- If only Berlin were this ambitious | Handelsblatt - Germany
- His own worst enemy | Die Presse - Austria
HOT Publication
The Intercultural City - Step by Step (February 2013)
It falls primarily upon cities to design and implement policies that foster community cohesion and turn cultural diversity into a factor of development rather than a threat. This practical guide for applying the urban model of intercultural integration is designed for city leaders and practitioners wishing to learn from the "Intercultural Cities" pilot project run by the Council of Europe and the European Commission in developing an intercultural approach to diversity management. The guide recommends steps and measures to help develop an intercultural strategy and monitor its implementation.
HOT Events
Cultural Participation as a Human Right?
At a press conference held on 15 January 2013, city officials from Wroclaw (Poland) announced their intention to strive, in cooperation with the Polish Government, for an inclusion of the "right to participation in culture" as one of the basic rights in the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of the Council of Europe - in 2011, the city of Wroclaw had been selected to become the European Capital of Culture in 2016. A Panel of Experts, co-organized with NCK (National Centre of Culture), met on March 6 in Wroclaw to further clarify this issue. A larger Expert Conference on the right to culture in international legal instruments is to be held November 2013 in Warsaw. More...
Featured soon:
- The Culture of a Sustainable Environment
- (Non-) Participation in Culture: Issues and Remedies
- Freedom of Religion vs. Freedom of Expression: Two sides of a coin?
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