IOM launched the Global Migration Media Academy, a learning hub that offers classroom and online courses in multiple languages to anyone interested in covering migration. The Academy forms a community of experts committed to providing fact-based, balanced and diverse; and to promoting new voices in the field of migration by eliminating barriers to professional development and learning.
IOM and UNHCR are coordinating In Peru the ë#TuCausaEsMiCausaí campaign. The campaign spans civil society and the private sector, and is designed to increase the solidarity of the Peruvian society towards Venezuelan immigrants, through social media, community workshops, and street theatre performance.
The project Living together without discrimination implemented by the National Human Rights Council and the Moroccan Government intends to strengthen instruments and public policies to fight and prevent racism, discrimination and xenophobia towards the migrant population.
Un Solo Rumbo, is an awareness campaign to eradicate any form of discrimination, because all human beings have the right to be treated with dignity and respect, regardless of their origin. This campaign is developed in the northern border of Ecuador, and other regions with a large presence of migrants.
The International iDiaspora Photo exhibition, organised by IOM and IBER-RUTAS, has shed light on the different ways in which diasporas cope and adapt when they leave their countries of origin to seek new opportunities and live transnational lives. The selected photos were able to portray how diasporas navigate their multiple identities and embrace their new country while remember where they come from.
The project ARTIST TRAINING is a qualification program offered by the UdK Berlin Career College aimed at the qualification, consulting, and networking of artists in exile. Since 2016, 47 modules have provided information and contacts for about 700 participants from the following fields: music, fine arts, performing arts, film and in the beginning also culture and media. Otherwise there are networking events and consulting sessions.
In many countries, people are currently experiencing restrictions on their cultural development that mean they have to or want to leave these countries. Against this background, the Senate has set out to strengthen the social and cosmopolitan orientation of the metropolis of Berlin.
The Other Talk is a three-year program implemented by Flemish Belgian NGOs 11.11.11 and Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen that aims at bringing nuance to the polarised migration debate in Flanders and prevent further polarisation. Other Talk is engaged in discussions in three areas: education, civil society and media. In the framework of the Other Talk programme, the University of Leuven conducted a study only available in Dutch on frames and counter-frames that are used or could be used when covering migration issues.
Battery Dance runs programs to integrate newly arrived refugees, migrants including unaccompanied children with host communities through an innovative dance project in public schools. The program focuses on bridging divides, uniting communities, empowering youth, combatting racism and xenophobia, and ending all discrimination.
Aware of the divisive potential of an increasing polarized public discourse on migration, the project will pool lessons from selected awareness-raising campaigns on migration. Such analysis will offer evidence-based grounds to develop innovative prototypes of awareness-raising/edutainment formats in collaboration with communication experts at the national level, including University faculties of semiotics, communication and marketing, schools of journalism/TV/radio and art.