Goals
By promoting public awareness on the importance of effective urban policies for the social and spatial inclusion of international migrants, the SSIIM UNESCO Chair will help addressing urban poverty reduction, as well as enhancing world wide urban cultural diversity and preventing urban conflicts.
In the short term the SSIIM UNESCO Chair will contribute:
- to produce new knowledge and a better understanding on how to improve good urban governance for the social and spatial inclusion of international migrants
- to exchange information on policies and practices that best respond to the challenges of increasingly multicultural urban societies
- to foster the awareness of policy-makers, government officials and the civil society at large on the importance of international migrants social and spatial inclusion in urban areas
