[cma-l] Fwd: BRITISH COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL RELATIONS ATTACHMENT SCHEME

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From:  <Mary.Redshaw at britishcouncil.org>

Dear Sir or Madam

I am contacting you to see if any of the community media organisations
in your network might be interested in hosting a short attachment for
one of the participants of Intercultural Navigators, a large-scale
intercultural dialogue project in Europe, developed and managed by the
British Council, the UK’s international organisation for cultural
relations.

To give you a bit of background to the project, Intercultural
Navigators aims to build capacity within public institutions, the
business sector, civil society and communities in the UK and Europe,
to help bring about positive social change and to find new and
powerful ways to address some of the major challenges to social
inclusion and cohesion in societies.

The participants are in their 20s or 30s and come from a very wide
range of professional and cultural backgrounds from countries in
Northern, Central and Eastern Europe.  (The countries involved in the
project, in addition to the UK, are Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark,
Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Latvia,
Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Turkey, and
Israel)   All of them are involved through work, volunteering activity
or study, in dealing with cohesion, diversity and equality issues in
their own countries.  As community media can play such a vital role in
building better understanding within local communities, we would be
extremely pleased if any of your associate organisations were able to
offer a placement to one of our participants.

 In the previous phase of the project the participants have gone
through a training programme to help them develop the necessary skills
and qualities they will need to operate in increasingly diverse and
sometimes volatile societies.  In the forthcoming phase they will have
an opportunity, through the attachment scheme,  to put their new
skills into practice in a real setting in a country other than their
own, and to learn a bit more about how organisations in the UK
approach the challenges and opportunities of cultural diversity.  And
of course hosts benefit from learning about experience in other
jurisdictions, and the opportunity to extend their links with
counterpart organisations in Europe.

The attachments are short – one to two weeks – and will take place
between February and March 2010 (but could be earlier if there was a
particularly good opportunity coming up before the main period).  The
participants will receive a grant to help with their travel and
accommodation, so there is no financial commitment on hosts, but, as
you would expect, we ask them to provide a meaningful programme or
assignment, and to offer appropriate support during the attachment
period.

For more information about the attachment scheme please see  -
http://www.britishcouncil.org/hungary-projects-intercultural-navigators-attachments.htm,
and http://www.britishcouncil.org/hungary-regional-projects-intercultural-navigators.htm
for more information about the project in general.

If you need any more information, or have any questions, please get in
touch with me.

If you think you might be interested in principle in offering an
attachment place, please let me know as soon as possible, and I can
give you a call to tell you more about the scheme and discuss any
specific questions you may have.

With best wishes
Mary Redshaw

Mary Redshaw
Governance Advisor, Justice and Human Rights
The British Council
Bridgewater House, 58 Whitworth Street
Manchester. M1 6BB
United Kingdom

Tel: +44(0)161 957 7413
Email: mary.redshaw at britishcouncil.org