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Living together, decompartmentalizing cultures

Avatar: Gregoire Robillard Gregoire Robillard

Create a specific project of intercultural exchange city-countryside. Intercultural encounter is a powerful key to unlocking minds and strengthening living together. Europe could create a special fund dedicated to local intercultural encounter projects. As a participant in the Youth in Action Programme in the 2000s, I was able to benefit from the contribution of cultural exchanges in the construction of my European and even global identity. If at the time our European societies were still little mixed, they are much more mixed 20 years later. International travel, even within the EU, is expensive and complex to organise. It seems to me that promoting rural-urban exchanges in each of the European countries can have the same benefits, as the diversity gap between urban and rural areas is still significant. The diversity lived in the city can easily serve as cultural diversity in the face of countryside that still cultivates too much withdrawal into oneself. Developing a budget for local meetings between citizens of the cities and citizens of the countryside would reduce discrimination and promote mutual understanding between peoples. Finally, adding a clause on the exercise of cultural rights presented in the Fribourg Declaration as a tool for dialogue and inter-recognition would make it possible to advance the feeling of European citizenship, even beyond it.

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