Nouvelles Perspectives du Dialogue Interculturel en Europe, Centre Georges Pompidou. Wimmer, November 2008

2. Arts, Culture and Intercultural Dialogue Michael Wimmer

3. Austria and Migration - the role of immigrants in the Austrian society - immigrants in Austrian schools - What‘s about the cultural sector?

5. About the report - interviews with experts all over Austria - demographic, legal, political framework - Assessment of problems/perspectives from the viewpoint of actors - recommendations - examples of good practice

6. When different actors are talking about intercultural dialogue… - they normally talk about different things - there is a need to find a place to communicate on the same eye level

7. Basic message Intercultural Competence is the competence to deal with conflicts

9. Recommendations - make use of differences - learning from each other - approaching each other

10. Recommendations for politicians and administrators - developing respective cultural and educational political priorities - Safeguarding professional quality - involving migrant actors in cultural and education policy decision making processes - evidence based policy - improving service

11. Recommendations for arts and cultural institutions - strategic development together with all levels of staff - providing intercultural competencies for staff members - involving migrant artists - controlling and evaluation

12. Further recommendations for Arts and Cultural Institutions - Audience development - Community Outreach - cultural institutions as learning institutions - Cooperations with educational institutions – Development of common projects

13. Recommendations concerning cultural initiatives from and for migrants - public acknowledgement making visible the contributions in cultural life - making available cultural management know how - appreciating intercultural competencies - improving professional services and support

14. Criteria for Good Practice - structural anchoring - thematic anchoring - acquisition of intercultural competencies - multilinguality - Innovation: New ways of cooperation - cross-sectoral, inter-institutional - lowering access barriers - participation and activation - sustainability - documentation - public resonance

15. „ There can be no dialogue without words, but there will be no meaningful intercultural dialogue if we do not move from words to action“ Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, July 2008

16. Thank you very much for your attention! For questions and feedback Michael Wimmer/EDUCULT [email_address] www.educult.at