Open, Safe and Respectful Dialogue – a chat about diversity and empowerment.

Engage in interactive group activities and join a safe space to share your stories as youth of foreign origin in an open community. The workshop is a collaboration between Nordic Pioneers Antirasistarnir and Isabel Diaz.

Meet Johanna, Vala and Stina, Nordic Pioneers Ambassadors who started the activist group Antirasistarnir (Anti Racists). Joined by Isabel Diaz, Iceland's UN youth delegate in Education, Science and Culture and a Nordic Pioneers Jury Member, they will facilitate a discussion about your personal experiences of racism and prejudices.

How can we develop community interpretation in a changing society?

Since the last Intercultural Conference, which took place in 2019, many changes have occurred in our society. The group of people who need interpretation in their daily lives has grown. What is the situation today? What are we doing well, and what can be better? Birna Imsland, will go over urgent matters in the field of community interpretation and address the vision for the profession’s future.

The seminar is for interpreters and professionals who use their services, but all are welcome.

Intercultural competence – do we all sit at the same table?

Are you interculturally competent?

Reykjavik City is an intercultural society; knowing how prejudice can appear and how to respond to it is essential. What is the difference between inclusion and adjustment? How can I be inclusive both in my place of work and in my everyday life? With this crash course, participants will acquire the tools to build a better society.

Joanna Marcinkowska is a specialist at the Reykjavik City Human Rights and Democracy Office.

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