NETWORK FOR CHANGE

The importance of policy lessons from good practice exchange between European towns is highlighted by the INDIMAE Network members in their effort to is to adopt human rights as a guiding norm of local governance in European towns.

To support European towns and regions to design and implement successful diversity management and inclusion strategies at the local level, the INDIMAE project launched a series of partnership debates within the project activities, aimed at promoting open and regular dialogue, increasing capacity and fostering know-how exchanges between local communities in the partner countries.

The INDIMAE Network idea to provide a platform for exchange of good practices and learning from each other was inspired by the launching a EU partnership with the Committee of the Regions to start a political dialogue and promote learning and exchanges on integration for local and regional authorities.

Therefore the INDIMAE Network members take very seriously the need to focus on all vulnerable to exclusion and marginalisation local groups; putting individual rights at the center of local public policies and empowering local communities to take the lead and challenge the European municipalities in fullfilling their responsibilities.

POLICY LESSONS

The INDIMAE Network developed a set of Policy Lessons from an intense and very rewarding good practice exchange between ten European towns based on the EU Charter of fundamental rights in order to encourage participatory democracy and social justice in European town management.

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EXCHANGE for INCLUSION

​The joint efforts of the INDIMAE network members sought to establish a learning process that would be based on productive exchange of ideas and good practices on
successful and innovative diversity management and inclusion.

Local communities are where integration happens