Over the last year, this is the question that the VOICITYS project has been asking people across Europe to explore what life is like in diverse communities. Working in neighbourhoods in Berlin, Budapest, Salford and Sassari, the VOICITYS partnership have been gathering Community Reporter stories with residents and interviews with local and national decision-makers to find out about people’s perceptions of diversity, what diverse spaces look like, how diversity is governed and the policies related to this. Through combining traditional social science methods and story curation approaches, we have produce a set of core findings on these topics.

With the results of this research, we’d like to invite you to a Conversation of Change event that will use the findings as the basis for a discussion about the priority areas for diverse communities across Europe. People from participating countries – UK, Germany, Hungary and Italy – will come together to listen to different perspectives and share their own experiences. As part of this participatory workshop, you will help us to co-create a set of key proposals to inform pan-European policy around diversity.

This event is being co-organised by People’s Voice Media and Inspiring Communities Together.

ABOUT VOICITYS

What does diversity mean to you? VOICITYS aims to improve social integration through reinforcing social dialogue and communication in European urban neighbourhoods characterised by diversity. Find out more about the VOICITYS website.

This project has been funded by The European Union’s Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme 2014 – 2020.