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Region Emilia-Romagna is the public authority administrating the region with the same name located in Northern Italy, with over 22.square Km area and 4.5 million inhabitants.

Region Emilia-Romagna has been engaged in development education for many years. In the regional law number 12 of 2002 there is a specific paragraph that engages the Region to support initiatives of education and awareness raising on international cooperation, peace and inter-cultural activities, respect of human rights. Region Emilia-Romagna approves every year a regional program on the issues of peace and human rights and coordinates all the local authorities operating on regional territory in order to promote participated processes and uniformity of approaches.

Loures is a municipality in the central Portuguese Grande Lisboa Subregion. It is situated to the north of Lisbon. It was created on 26 July 1886 by a royal decree.  Loures has a total population of about 200.000 inhabitants, of which about 8% (16.700) are residents from abroad, with a very significant community from Africa, which represents 55%, namely Angola, Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Prince, and 22% coming from the Americas, particularly from Brazil.

The INE (National Statistical Institute) data, referring to the 2011 national census, still indicate that 6.224 citizens with dual nationality (plurinationality) live in Loures, representing about 3% of the total population, but this data does not allow us to affirm that this is the number of residents who obtained Portuguese naturalization. Each year, according to INE (the reporting period between 1999 and 2007), are required an average of 1.000 permits of residence in Loures.

The municipality of Loures is administered by a city council composed of 11 councilors. There is a Municipal Assembly that is the legislative body of the municipality consisting of 43 members (including 33 directly elected).

The position of Mayor is currently occupied by Bernardino José Torrão Soares elected in the municipal elections of 2013 in the CDU (cohalition from PCP+PEV+ID) lists with relative majority of councillors in the chamber.

http://www.cm-loures.pt/

Toulouse is the capital city of Languedoc-Roussillon Midi-Pyrénées Region, in South-West France and its metropolitan area, with over 1.2 million inhabitants, is the fourth largest in the Country.

The city of Toulouse participates in the AMITIE CODE project Toulouse through its Equality Mission and Directorate for Attractiveness, Europe and International Influence (Direction de l'attractivité, de l'Europe et du Rayonnement International).

Since 2009, the Equality Mission is in charge of co-ordinating and facilitating initiatives to fight against discrimination, especially through promoting respect for diversity, human rights, gender equality and sexual orientation. The Equality Mission supports to associations fighting against discriminations, especially those working in priority neighbourhoods. Logistic support involves offering reception areas within the Space for Diversity and Secularism (Espace des Diversités et de Laïcité or EDL).

The Direction de l'attractivité, de l'Europe et du Rayonnement International is a mutualised service for the City of Toulouse and Toulouse Métropole. It is divided into two departments: Missions of the European Department, which informs, supports and provides support for the administrative and financial follow-up of projects, monitors and follows up calls for projects and networks of cities; the Missions of the International Relations Department, which searches for joint funding, federates and mobilises partners, organises and takes part in citizens' functions and events and monitors and follows up city networks.

Alma Mater Studiorum- University of Bologna is an Italian public University set in Bologna. It's the eldest University in Europe and at present one of the biggest in Italy, with 11 faculties, 33 departments and over 80.000 students.

On the AMITIE CODE project, the University will engage the CIRSFID (Interdepartmental Centre for Research in the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Law, and in Legal Informatics) and will in particular value the experience and positive results obtained through its Master’s Course in Human Rights, Migrations, Development.

CIRSFID was founded in 1986 by Enrico Pattaro and is named for Guido Fassò (a legal philosopher) and Augusto Gaudenzi (a legal historian). Its mission is to promote research in the philosophy of law, in legal informatics and technology law, in the sociology and history of law, and in bioethics. In each of these areas the centre pursues research and publication activities; offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses; and provides consultation and services working in collaboration with national as well as international organizations. The centre draws on the expertise of researchers and faculty from the University of Bologna, and in particular from the departments in areas of law, philosophy, computer science and medicine.

Among CIRSFID’s many Doctoral Programmes and Master’s Courses is the Master’s Course in Human Rights, Migrations, Development, which is a one-year programme designed for graduate students and professionals who want to specialise in the area of Human Rights, Migration and Development studies.

The  central  objective  of  the  Master’s  Programme  is  to  train  students  to  be  highly  specialised  and qualified  to  conceive,  promote  and  manage  interventions  in the fields of development cooperation, the promotion and protection of  human rights and the  reception  and  integration  of  migrants.

Through  specific  sessions  on  International  Law, Economics,  History,  Philosophy  of  Law,  Political  Science and  Cultural  Anthropology,  students acquire a multidisciplinary and rich set of competences which are extremely important to understand migration and development phenomena in their complex and multi-faceted nature and to fight against  any  form  of economic,  political  and  social  exclusion.

In the 17-year history of the Master’s Programme a consistent number of human rights scholars and internationally  recognised  experts  on  development  and  migration  have  been  invited,  and  hundreds of students from more than 30 countries have been successfully trained as most of them are actively engaged  in  the  domain  of  Human  Rights  in  Italy  and  abroad, working  for  governmental  and  non-governmental organisations or conducting research on the matter in the academic domain.

Sevilla Acoge was founded in 1985, as the first NGO in Spain engaged on a series of specific goals targeting migrants’ communities. In 2005 the legal nature changed into a Foundation, but the main objectives and goals remained the same:

-Working for social Transformation towards a solidarity-based society where different people are able to live together in harmony, and where freedom, rights and values ​​of all are recognized, protected and promoted.

-Rrecognition of migrants, taking into account that, respecting their personal identities is a key role and a positive factor in their integration process.

-helping migrants to integrate in the Spanish society, without renouncing their identity as the root of their cultural values, while openly promoting migrants' presence and contribution is a positive and rewarding factor for the society as a whole.

-A permanent commitment to active participation in the reinforcement and preservation of Social Justice.

 The Foundation involves active citizens and focuses especially on youths as protagonist of social transformation. Diversity and inter-cultural approach are the main feature of the Foundation's identity.

The Hamburger Volkshochschule is the largest public adult education organisation in Hamburg, catering to 90000 participants each year, with a range of courses from language (German as the largest), culture, politics (e.g. development issues, migration, democracy, participation) health, ICT, professional courses of all kinds. Furthermore, the Hamburger Volkshochschule is and has been engaged in a variety of projects, from locally operating to international (since 1995). We are well connected with a large number of cooperating partners in Hamburg and in Germany, from companies, labour unions, chambers and others, and we are a member of the German Adult Education Association (DVV).  Mostly in projects, our target groups are among the disadvantaged parts of the population, e.g. migrants, women, young adults without a secondary education or/and without job. We provide courses to close the knowledge gaps (often in innovative ways), to work towards democracy and equality and inclusion. The projects catering to the needs of migrants have been our main focus during the previous five years. The mission of Hamburger Volkshochschule is to provide “Education for all”, and work towards the coherence of society. 

On 10 December, 2004, the "European Coalition of Cities against Racism" was established in Nuremberg, as a network of local administrations engaged in challenging and fighting racism, discrimination and xenophobia. A "Ten-Point-Plan of Action" was adopted. In order to take into account the special conditions and priorities of different regions of the world, further regional coalitions have been established in the two following years and worked out their own action plans. At present, ECCAR gathers 126 cities from 24 European Countries