Multicultural Envirnoment Project
Basic information
Project Title
Multicultural Envirnoment Project
Full project title
Multicultural Envirnoment Project
Category
Regaining a sense of belonging
Project Description
The Multicultural Center we are a special space in Brno, which serves as a mean for the dissemination of different educational, artistic, cultural expressions to unite people from different backgrounds Our Center allows inter-generational exchanges and community-building for the inhabitants of our city to have a physical space to openly express themselves and celebrate their diversity in unison.
Geographical Scope
Local
Project Region
Czechia
Urban or rural issues
Mainly urban
Physical or other transformations
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)
EU Programme or fund
Yes
Which funds
ERASMUS
Description of the project
Summary
As a Multicultural Center we are a special space in Brno, which serves as a mean for the dissemination of different educational, artistic, cultural expressions to unite people from different backgrounds. Our Center allows inter-generational exchanges and community-building for the inhabitants of our city to have a physical space to openly express themselves and celebrate their diversity in unison. For this matter, the Center’s programs and activities are developed to increase the awareness, understanding, support and intersectionality of the various identities in the local community. We are non-profit, non-commercial NGO.
Key objectives for sustainability
All of our Multicultural initiatives, events, exhibits and other public relations matters, go hand in hand with being sustainable. We seek to recycle and raise awareness towards this topic through our work. We show our students that recycling and upcycling of the materials we use in our classes helps us achieve the most outstanding results, whereas other organizations might struggle to do so.
Key objectives for aesthetics and quality
Multicultural diversity helps dispel negative stereotypes and also recognize and respect different groups so that as we interact with others we can build bridges to trust, respect, and understanding across cultures. It is a unique local inclusive project that contribute to bringing a sense of
belonging and living in this city for the locals and foreigners. Our goal is to connect with local historical heritage and traditions and also with local features of educational, cultural and artistic dynamics and lifestyles and to contribute to create the feeling of belonging for the whole community with intergenerational, international, multilingual and intercultural exchanges in a friendly and supportive environment. We are developing study programmes for the individuals to reach the maximum level of integration. These are the main benefits for the whole community.
belonging and living in this city for the locals and foreigners. Our goal is to connect with local historical heritage and traditions and also with local features of educational, cultural and artistic dynamics and lifestyles and to contribute to create the feeling of belonging for the whole community with intergenerational, international, multilingual and intercultural exchanges in a friendly and supportive environment. We are developing study programmes for the individuals to reach the maximum level of integration. These are the main benefits for the whole community.
Key objectives for inclusion
Our organization aims to make all of our services as accessible as possible. In all contexts of accessibility — we aim for affordability, inclusion, tolerance. We promote a unity in diversity, in this way, we do not jeopardize the differences, but rather embrace them through unison of joint events, concerts, lessons, exhibitions, counseling.
Results in relation to category
Benefits for the city of Brno
— Multicultural center, international center, language, music, theater school for Czechs and foreigners, children, youth, adults, pensioners, integration courses, social support for residents
— Attracting investment
- International relationships
— Development of the social, cultural, educational environment
— Work with foreigners, employment of foreigners with higher professional education
— Helping children with tutoring, including children with various disabilities
— Social, speaking, game clubs
— High-quality translations and interpreting (in Brno, after the start of the war in Ukraine, the number of Russian-speaking refugees increased significantly)
The Czech Multicultural Center Brusinka offers educational and leisure activities for the people of Brno, families with children and the like, which contributes to the prevention of racism and xenophobia through the support of multicultural education and training.
Our center is an association of Czech citizens and foreigners for the purpose of supporting and developing a multicultural foreign cultural and social environment in the South Moravian Region and especially in Brno, as well as the integration of foreigners in the South Moravian Region. No wonder, there are really a lot of expats in Brno who work with commitment for the development of the city, just like in any association. We also deal with the topics of multicultural education.
— Multicultural center, international center, language, music, theater school for Czechs and foreigners, children, youth, adults, pensioners, integration courses, social support for residents
— Attracting investment
- International relationships
— Development of the social, cultural, educational environment
— Work with foreigners, employment of foreigners with higher professional education
— Helping children with tutoring, including children with various disabilities
— Social, speaking, game clubs
— High-quality translations and interpreting (in Brno, after the start of the war in Ukraine, the number of Russian-speaking refugees increased significantly)
The Czech Multicultural Center Brusinka offers educational and leisure activities for the people of Brno, families with children and the like, which contributes to the prevention of racism and xenophobia through the support of multicultural education and training.
Our center is an association of Czech citizens and foreigners for the purpose of supporting and developing a multicultural foreign cultural and social environment in the South Moravian Region and especially in Brno, as well as the integration of foreigners in the South Moravian Region. No wonder, there are really a lot of expats in Brno who work with commitment for the development of the city, just like in any association. We also deal with the topics of multicultural education.
How Citizens benefit
The citizens are involved through our courses, excursions, workshops, concerts, drama open lessons and other cultural events, international projects, collaboration of different local cultural and educational institutions and organizations.
Physical or other transformations
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)
Innovative character
There is a lack of support of multicultural activities from the government of Czech Republic. There is one Multicultural Center in Prague, however in our second city, Brno, there were no such initiatives before we have opened our Center. The main advantage is that we are mixing support services with education, we have language, music, art, theater department, rugby and chess club for children, different kind of developing and leisure time activities, raising the ways of horizon and overview widening.
The current Czech Republic is often the subject of discussions regarding the relationship of the majority to minorities. Problems arising from multicultural coexistence in the Czech Republic are currently being solved as at local levels or within the state, as well as at the international level. We are still hearing from the media about racially motivated attacks, discrimination or the planned departure of Romani people from the Czech Republic. But we are not talking about Romani ethnics, nowadays in the Brno city there are a lot of different foreigners as it is a fast developing place with a lot of science, cultural institutions, international festivals and universities with students from the different countries. The common denominator of multicultural concepts is the desire for coexistence of majority and minority components of the city population. The challenge for the Czechs is to give up the ethnic concept of the Czech state and begin to understand the nation as a community of free and equal people as well as a community of different ethnicities and cultures. By the activities of our Center we are trying to demonstrate a successful example of integration, diversity and connection of different nationalities.
The current Czech Republic is often the subject of discussions regarding the relationship of the majority to minorities. Problems arising from multicultural coexistence in the Czech Republic are currently being solved as at local levels or within the state, as well as at the international level. We are still hearing from the media about racially motivated attacks, discrimination or the planned departure of Romani people from the Czech Republic. But we are not talking about Romani ethnics, nowadays in the Brno city there are a lot of different foreigners as it is a fast developing place with a lot of science, cultural institutions, international festivals and universities with students from the different countries. The common denominator of multicultural concepts is the desire for coexistence of majority and minority components of the city population. The challenge for the Czechs is to give up the ethnic concept of the Czech state and begin to understand the nation as a community of free and equal people as well as a community of different ethnicities and cultures. By the activities of our Center we are trying to demonstrate a successful example of integration, diversity and connection of different nationalities.
Disciplines/knowledge reflected
No matter the initiative, Multicultural Center Brusinka is a client-facing, not a revenue-facing organization. We seek to create for the people. Through cooperation and an «open-doors» approach, we manage to combine the practicality of Brusinka, with creative demand from our clients.
Methodology used
There are two primary goals of creating a multicultural environment: celebrating all cultures and challenging all forms of discrimination and xenophobia, including in the workplace, educational spaces, public environments, and other places.
Stated and implied goals from multicultural education programs throughout the world include:
Empowerment of students and teachers
Increase in cultural pluralism
Expanded knowledge about many cultures, groups, and societies
Professional practice that is increasingly guided by increased multicultural knowledge
Increased social action
learning for the green transition
Stated and implied goals from multicultural education programs throughout the world include:
Empowerment of students and teachers
Increase in cultural pluralism
Expanded knowledge about many cultures, groups, and societies
Professional practice that is increasingly guided by increased multicultural knowledge
Increased social action
learning for the green transition
How stakeholders are engaged
We have a large multicultural team, which consists of a quarter of local specialists, as well as professionals and volunteers from different countries - Latvia, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, Slovakia, Moldova, Romania, France. Our employees, who are now 40 people, daily contribute to the common cause, implementing educational and cultural projects, preparing programs for the implementation of plans for the development of a multicultural community. On a local level, we are the only multicultural center in the South Moravian Region with more than 120 million people living on an area of 7.188 km²
Global challenges
Our advantages:
— A true multicultural tolerant environment in Brno
— At the same time Czech, English, Russian and Ukrainian departments
— Quality support for foreigners of various origins, including families with children
— Support for foreigners from various countries, the association of the Ukrainian and Russian minorities in Brno
— Connecting the cultures of different nations
— Excellent knowledge of languages (Czech, English, Italian, Ukrainian, German, Russian and others)
— Long-term experience in teaching languages, preparing for exams for children and adults
— A professional team of lecturers and pedagogues, the possibility of work and practice for young people
— Beneficial permanent cooperation between cultural institutions: MZK, MZM, KUMST, Goose on a String, Co.Labs, etc.
— Afternoon Ukrainian school, adaptation courses for children up Saturday Russian school for bilingual children, club for the little ones
— Music and theater department, which organizes multicultural concerts and performances
— Multicultural excursions, trips and camps
— A very strong rugby section for children
— Art and work workshop that offers workshops, courses
— The possibility of organizing festivals and markets
— Cooperation with external lecturers internationally
In addition, culture is undoubtedly important for compensating for the psychological and social problems that disability and illness cause to citizens.
— A true multicultural tolerant environment in Brno
— At the same time Czech, English, Russian and Ukrainian departments
— Quality support for foreigners of various origins, including families with children
— Support for foreigners from various countries, the association of the Ukrainian and Russian minorities in Brno
— Connecting the cultures of different nations
— Excellent knowledge of languages (Czech, English, Italian, Ukrainian, German, Russian and others)
— Long-term experience in teaching languages, preparing for exams for children and adults
— A professional team of lecturers and pedagogues, the possibility of work and practice for young people
— Beneficial permanent cooperation between cultural institutions: MZK, MZM, KUMST, Goose on a String, Co.Labs, etc.
— Afternoon Ukrainian school, adaptation courses for children up Saturday Russian school for bilingual children, club for the little ones
— Music and theater department, which organizes multicultural concerts and performances
— Multicultural excursions, trips and camps
— A very strong rugby section for children
— Art and work workshop that offers workshops, courses
— The possibility of organizing festivals and markets
— Cooperation with external lecturers internationally
In addition, culture is undoubtedly important for compensating for the psychological and social problems that disability and illness cause to citizens.
Learning transferred to other parties
Common approach, the whole system with all the courses and activities.
Keywords
culture
education
foreigners
creativity
multicultural
