Multicultural Cyprus

Multicultural Cyprus

Contract Title	Building a Multi-Ethnic and Multi-National Cyprus to promote European Values and Regional and International Peace
Contract Number	47351_07_006
Funding Period	01/06/2007 to 30/06/2008
Funding Agency	UNDP/UNOPS
Total Cost	€84,000.66

Partners	Human Rights and Education Network Cyprus Adult Education Association University of Cyprus – Department of Political Science Young Cypriot Scientists Network

Website	http://www.multiculturalcyprus.net

Overall Objective

The main objective is to promote awareness and increase the sensitivity of the Cypriot Society on how a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural Cyprus serves European values and promotes regional and international peace.

Activities

To meet the main objective, the project will engage students, teachers and parents in workshops and activities to create a vision map for a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic Cyprus, as well as visualize and implement specific activities, which contribute towards materializing the vision for a multi-cultural society. Through a number of additional actions, such as Panel Discussions, a Conference and Information Events it targets the Cypriot society, at large. To meet the objectives of the project, the applicants intend to employ two different types of activities: (1) Panel discussions and (2) Interactive structured democratic dialogue workshops.

People

Yiannis Laouris	Kerstin Wittig	Klitos Simeonides	George Zikas
Joseph Joseph	Savina Joseph	Elina Joseph	Romina Laouri
Neofitos Loizides	Stella Gavrilidou	Eva Argirou	Tonia Loizidou
Larry Fergeson

Panel Discussions

SDDPs organized

Publications

Target Groups

Students of different ages
Parents
Teachers
Representatives of the Ministry
Representatives fro reform Committees

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