Living Together is a major British Council initiative that brings diverse groups together from 27 countries across Europe, to contribute to the global debate on intercultural dialogue.
Intercultural dialogue covers a wide range of issues from ethnically based conflict and economic migration, to religious tolerance and equal opportunities. It is one of the most important priorities for societies worldwide today.
The aim of Living Together is to contribute to the intercultural dialogue and understanding among the countries in South East and Northern Europe, as well as the UK, by delivering a series of networks and public forums on the opportunities, threats and implications of increasingly complex societies.
Living Together project focuses on two main themes which are highly important in terms of intercultural dialogue: “Participation of minority communities in public life” and “New migrant communities & their impact on society”. Each participating country will be running project activities under one of these themes. Living Together will also cover a series of multilateral projects including photography and film exhibition, young people’s programmes and international workshops.
In line with the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue in 2008, Council of Europe also strongly supports Living Together and has granted their patronage to the project.
In addition to multilateral and regional collaborative projects, photography exhibition and film competition, there will be two high profile events: an international summit and a regional congress.
International SummitThe event will take place between 12-14 March in London and will provide a forum for leaders from across Europe to come together in the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue and to present their views, debate issues and make progress towards signing a declaration of intent.
From Kosovo will be participating Mr. Skender Hyseni, Mr. Besnik Fetahu, Mr. Nenad Ristic and Mr. Petar Miletic.
A detailed outline of the project can be found in the dedicated Living Together website. You can find out what the other countries are taking part under one of the two themes of Living Together in the What’s going on in my country? section of the website.
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