Contract “Intercultural Region of Cities in the Ruhr area”

Policy Response DateMay 28, 2010 Country: Germany Address: Bochum General Type: Discrimination, Institutional discrimination, Equality/Integration Racism and discrimination phenomena: Anti-migrant/xenophobia
Groups affected / Interested in: Migrants, Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities, National minorities Key socio-economic/institutional areas: Employment - labour market, Anti-discrimination, Integration - social cohesion, Daily life

“High-level representatives of the Cities of Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen, Mülheim an der Ruhr and Oberhausen met on May 28, 2010 in Bochum at the Inter-communal Forum Integration. By signing the Contract “Intercultural Ruhr Region of Cities”, they emphasised their intention to continue and strengthen their cooperation to pursue the objective of making their municipal administrations more ‘interculturally competent’.

The contract pursues three major goals: to secure intercultural competence as a distinguishing mark in the administration, in particular within the scope of the personnel management, and incorporate such competence as a criterion for the recruitment and development of personnel; to make the percentage of employees with a history of migration correspond to their percentage of the city population; to achieve the aforementioned goals through sustainable intercommunal collaboration. Different concrete activities and exchange of information has been carried out to achieve these goals” (Peucker 2010, p. 51).

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