To ensure fair representation and promotion for the diverse range of cultural expression and heritage of city dwellers in the cultural programmes, collective memory and public space of the city authority and promote interculturality in city life.
To facilitate the production, in partnership with professionals from the groups affected by discrimination, audiovisual material (feature films, documentaries, programmes, etc.) that enables them to express their experience of and aspirations for their city. To facilitate distribution of such material at local, national and international level.
To fund on a regular basis cultural projects and meeting places (e.g. events, cultural centres, etc.) that represent the diversity of city dwellers (music, theatre, dance, painting, etc.) and to integrate them in official city programming.
To name places (streets, squares, monuments, neighbourhoods) and / or to commemorate events specifically relevant to groups suffering from discrimination, in order to recognise their contributions and to integrate them into the memory and collective identity of the city.
The ECCAR would like to announce a new opportunity for the member cities of the Coalition. We are in a period which requires a greater commitment to combat discrimination and all …
Last week in Paris, the President of ECCAR, together with Franck Porterat (City of Nancy), attended a meeting at the UNESCO headquarters with Nelson Fernandez, representative of …
The ECCAR has a strategic partner role in the project CLARINET. The project CLARINET - Communication of Local Authorities for Integration in European Towns, is a EU-funded …
21st March celebrates the international day against racism. To commemorate and highlight that special day the ECCAR encourages you, as a solemn act of engagement and actions, to …
The president of ECCAR also attended last year to the ACT NOW conference and took part, during these days, in a project called MENSCH. After one year the work is done and available …
Last week, the president of ECCAR and one of the Vice presidents (Lefteris Papagiannakis from Athen) took part in the 6th INTERNATIONAL MAYORS 'CONFERENCE from 27 to 29 January …
On 10 December 2018, UNESCO _through its International Coalition of Inclusive and Sustainable Cities ICCAR_ together with the European Coalition of Cities against Racism ECCAR and …
On the occasion of the World Cities Day, UNESCO welcomed on 31 October at its Headquarters in Paris, the ECCAR president Benedetto Zacchiroli, the ECCAR vice-president & deputy …