About the project

Go4Diversity - A project about Migration, Diversity and Integration in Austria   

February – November 2010

The UN General Assembly declared 2010 as the “International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures”. Therefore, the Austrian Commission for UNESCO in cooperation with TermNet aims at encouraging a positive debate about cultural diversity, migration and integration in Austria with the project Go4Diversity.

Around the following thematic emphases, 4 events in 3 provinces (Vienna, Graz, Eisenstadt) will be held: 

• Diversity and Global Understanding
• Against Discrimination in Sports
• Linguistic and Cultural Diversity
• Information days on health in Vienna

Dr. Gabriele Sauberer and Mana Hamadou Aliyou of the Go4Diversity project report about their own experiences with mentoring migrants (an initiative of the Wirtschaftskammern Österreich WKO):

Please also read an article on the migration and integration in Austria written by Mor Kalinsky.