INTEGRATING CITIES
common solutions for shared challenges
Integrating Cities gathers Eurocities’ work on Migration and Integration and the related EU-funded projects. This process was launched in Rotterdam in 2006 as a partnership between Eurocities and the European Commission to promote local level implementation of the Common Basic Principles on Integration.
On this website, you will find information on the established policy dialogue between Eurocities and the European Commission, the Integrating Cities Conference series celebrated every two years, signatories of the Integrating Cities Charter and updates on our ongoing EU-funded projects UNITES and CONSOLIDATE as well as initiatives from Eurocities Working Group on Migration and Integration.
INTEGRATING CITIES process launched
2006MILAN DECLARATION confirms the process
2007INTI-CITIES
2007-2009DIVE
2008-2010EUROCITIES Charter on Integrating Cities
2010MIXITIES
2010-2012IMPLE MENTORING
2012-2014CITIES-GROW
2017-2019VALUES
2019-2021CONNECTION
2020-2022UNITES
2022-2024CONSOLIDATE
2024-2027MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION WORKING GROUP
The EUROCITIES working group migration & integration consists of practitioners from more than 30 cities. It works both horizontally, providing an environment for mutual learning on integration governance, and vertically, as body that attempts to influence EU policies on migration and integration from a city perspective.
As most migrants come to live in cities, the working group wants to emphasise the importance of involving cities in the shaping and implementation of immigration/integration policies. The group aims to put into practice the objective of the new European agenda on integration that integration policies should be developed with a genuine ‘bottom-up’ approach“ and to have a stronger impact of local experience in EU policies.
The EUROCITIES “Integrating Cities Charter” provides an important framework for the group. The Charter sets out duties and responsibilities of European cities to embrace the diversity of their population and to provide equal opportunities in their roles as policy-makers, service providers, employers and buyers of goods and services to provide equal opportunities. It was launched in 2010 and has since been signed by over 25 cities. Member cities of the working group have been involved in four projects on integration governance, with the most current, ImpleMentoring running from 2011. The working group also organise the Integrating Cities Conferences.
SOLIDARITY CITIES
Solidarity Cities is an initiative on the management of the refugee crisis proposed by the Mayor of Athens and launched in the framework of the EUROCITIES network. It aims to constitute the framework under which all cities actions and initiatives are presented highlighting the political leadership of cities in addressing this challenge.
Solidarity Cities is open to all European cities wishing to work closely with each other and committed to solidarity in the field of refugee reception and integration.
For more information on Solidarity Cities visit the website
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