Presentation
Portuguese Government, through the High Commission for Migration (ACM), aims to be able to build resources in order to contribute to broader information of the several religious ‘communities living in Portugal, involving a larger number of agents and institutions in this process.
In the last years, the High Commission for Migration (ACM, I.P.) has been promoting an intervention in intercultural mediation through the Intercultural Mediation in Public Services' Project (MISP), which aims to contribute for social cohesion and better life quality in municipal areas where cultural diversity is significant.
The main goal of MISP is to manage diversity with the contribution of local protagonists as mediators. Knowing that universities and higher education institutions can have here an important role, the High Commission for Migration (ACM) invited many institutions to join up in this important goal.
So, in 21st May of 2015, and by occasion of Cultural Diversity to Dialogue and Development Global Day, has taken place the event of constitution of the Network of Intercultural Mediation in Higher Education (RESMI), with the signature, by all the representatives of the 23 Higher Education institutions involved, of a commitment letter.
