The overall objectives of SINAFE are to: • To develop a support mechanism for social inclusion of migrant African athletes in Europe. With the perspective of “sport as a human right”, it targets to encourage social inclusion and support providing equal opportunities in sport for all people, including the ones from a disadvantageous background. In spite sport is seen as a perfect tool for social mobility and the stories from sport, particularly football, presents a dream for many young athletes, many athletes are coming from poor countries suffer from social exclusion in the country they migrated. The migration of an increasing number of athletes to Europe in recent years makes this issue prominent in the European context. • Contribute to innovative approaches to training for migrant athletes by developing a curriculum including rights, legal procedures and occupational information using inclusive and empowering techniques.   The special aims of the SINAFE project are to: • To develop and implement a support mechanism for minor migrant athletes to include them in the host country and sport industry. • To provide a needs analysis report with qualified data gathered by experts in the field to exhibit challenges faced by migrant athletes and to guide the next steps of the project. • To develop guides and policy recommendation papers for different stakeholders. • To develop the curriculum of a training module for minor athletes to overcome their lack of information about general regulations for the immigrant community and specific regulations for migrant athletes. The training mainly aims to support the employment of these athletes in the sports labour market by informing them about their rights and contributing professional knowledge.   The direct target group of the project is minor African athletes in participant countries.   The final beneficiaries of the project are various sport organisations, migration instut...

This project aims to understand how local governance accommodates contemporary forms of cultural diversity in urban spaces. It inquires about on which conditions cultural diversity brought by immigrants becomes a cultural good and what kind of factors play a role in the social sustainability of this "diversity advantage". Such an attempt implies giving special attention to the interaction between a) processes of urban regeneration, b) branding of the city and tourist economy; c) the cultural economy and gentrification trends in relation to the diversified cultural spaces; d) entrepreneurial and creative initiatives. When comparing different urban spaces where notorious circumstances of superdiversity are observed, we try to investigate when and where the interaction of the abovementioned factors reinforces this tendency and how modalities of local governance shape the outcomes. This project focuses specifically on the impact of local actors' policies and strategies to accommodate cultural diversity in the city.

This project aims at analysing how diversity, of a cosmopolitan type, or superdiversity, has been requested by political decision makers and part of urban planning and what factors and dynamics contribute to this configuration. Research that will be supported by a qualitative approach will focus on the mechanisms and strategies for accommodating cultural diversity in the local space, exploring both the everyday experiences and cultural encounters and the strategic and deliberative aspects of local governance networks. We ask how cultural diversity is incorporated in processes of urban renewal, in the creation of images of the city, in gentrification dynamics, paying particular attention to the subjects and strategies of local governance.  

The overall aim of this proposal is to create a transnational interdisciplinary research and training network between European and Latin American Universities and Research centres in order to promote transfer of knowledge and to produce innovative research in the field of the multilevel governance of cultural diversity in a comparative perspective.

O presente projecto visa identificar, compreender e caracterizar as lógicas práticas, discursivas e políticas da interculturalidade na incorporação de imigrantes e minorias. Desta questão genérica decorrem outras problemáticas interrelacionadas que se desagregam nas seguintes indagações: Quais as afinidades e distanciamentos com o modelo multicultural? Quais as especificidades em termos de governabilidade da diferença? Que configurações apresenta o contexto português? Quais os actores e como se articulam na produção e reprodução da interculturalidade? O projecto incidirá sobre Portugal, e a pertinência desse enfoque explica-se pelo facto de as autoridades públicas e governamentais assumirem uma terceira via de integração para os imigrantes que designam por “diálogo intercultural”. O esteio deste modelo é o interculturalismo. Pretende-se coligir elementos que permitam caracterizar o “interculturalismo português” tendo por assumido uma sua dimensão multiescalar composta pelas intersecções do nível transnacional, nacional, e local.

Our principal aim is to describe, analyze and compare new super-diverse convivial contexts, as they relate to the process of migrations shaping new cultural realms. Our approach does not involve the idealization of harmonic intercultural relations but considers convivial contexts as new fields of intercultural tensions and interactions as an attempt to understand their dynamics and the social, historic and personal factors that lead to willingness to coexist with ethnic heterogeneity or to reject it. Consequently, it envisions applying an innovative framework to understanding intercultural relations among national and migrant populations. From the perspective of social topography, the new convivial cultures are not associated with a specific geographic space. They correspond to different public contexts in which people with links to various ethnic or cultural groups interact. The research will focus on formal/informal settings linked to distinct social functions in each city: Leisure & spaces dedicated to religious practices; Market/shopping area (open-air or indoor market frequented by various ethnic and cultural groups); School/education (where intercultural relations take place between generations and groups-key for overseeing societal evolution of intercultural dialogue); These spaces are important for grasping the real meaning of intercultural relations because as Amin stated, even if “ the national frame of racial and ethnic relations remains important, much of the negotiation of difference occurs at the very local level, through everyday experiences and encounters”.