Shared values, cultural diversity and education :
What to learn and how ?

Intercultural Education Development for the Cooperation between European Cities (DIECEC)

Antwerp, Birmingham, Bologna, Bradford, Cork, Helsinki, Linköping, London (Greenwich), Madrid, Marseilles, Motala, Odense, Oslo, Rotterdam, Sheffield, Turin, Udine and Vienna.

The project Intercultural Education Development for the Cooperation between European Cities (DIECEC) is a conjoint initiative of eighteen big European cities aimed at improving the educational service quality offered to the children living in a multicultural environment. The network has the objective of increasing the success rates of ethnic minorities children, by means of a multi-level work (school and extra-school) and in collaboration with schools and voluntary organizations.

In order to attain this goal, DIECEC works for the cooperation among schools and the exchange of experiences and information about concerns that are common to the educational services of the eighteen cities.
Beyond the language problem and the learning efficiency of second language learning, DIECEC develops a large-scale of intercultural education policy and practice. In order to raise the success rate of children in trouble, especially the immigrant ones, creative writing and mediation as a means to help students achieve success are used. These measures go along with the multicultural schools behavior, teaching and learning materials linked to great religions or to provisions concerning immigrants children.

This approach has been developed on the observation that children learn better, succeed more and have better chances for their lives when every instance and everyone following them, work coordinately, particularly in partnerships that allow them certain freedom of action.

DIECEC network
Bradford - Education Service
England
United Kingdom

Miriam Swan
Eurocities Secretariat
18 Square de Meeûs B-1050 Brussels
Tel.: +32 2 552 0888
Fax: +32 2 552 0889
E-mail: info@eurocities.be
Web site: http://www.eurocities.org

The first phase of the project started in 1994, under the coordination of Eurocities.