21 January 2025
The last “Interculturality & Empathy” training took place on 19 November 2024, thus concluding the project that ran from 2023 to 2024. In total, 254 people were trained during the 26 sessions organised between March and November 2024.
The training provided participants with tools and strategies to better understand cultural diversity and combat discrimination.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the LISKO service of the Luxembourg Red Cross offered this training dedicated to diversity, interculturality, and the fight against racism and discrimination, with support from the European Union’s “Asylum, Migration and Integration” Fund and the Ministry of Family Affairs, Solidarity, Living Together and Reception of Refugees. Through the development, delivery, and evaluation of a training cycle, the project aimed to strengthen the understanding of migration and intercultural competencies of local actors such the municipal committees on intercultural living together (CCVEI), volunteers and employees of local, cultural, and sports associations, and multipliers or beneficiaries of a state integration programme.
Given this success, a new project continues in the footsteps of the Interculturality & Empathy project starting 1 January 2025, for a duration of 4 years under the name REVEIL – “Strengthening Living Together through Interculturality and the Fight against Racism and Discrimination”. Three organisations are involved in its implementation: IOM, LISKO, and the Centre for Education and Dialogue (CED).
REVEIL aims to promote intercultural coexistence in Luxembourg by valorising diversity and strengthening mutual understanding whilst fighting against racism and discrimination. Municipal staff and those in the social, youth, and childhood sectors will benefit from basic training on key concepts of intercultural learning, as well as advanced training focused on diversity management and anti-discrimination.
explains Cécile Jérouville, training coordinator for professionals at LISKO.
This project is funded by