Cultural diversity and difference is increasing in European cities driven by economic integration, migration and EU enlargement. Urban regions are thus faced with the challenge posed by the possibilities and realities of cultural separation, assimilation and at its best cultural integration. This is the fourth in a series of symposia sponsored by the European Academy of the Urban Environment in Berlin, Queen's University Belfast and Urban Institute Ireland, considering how governance approaches to urban management can foster a sense of citizenship within which cultural difference can embed in a spirit of tolerance. At a time when cultural conflict and tension is firmly on academic and urban planners' radar screens, this symposium hosted by EA.UE opens the tripartite conversation to the European city generally. What can European cities learn from each other in common efforts through dialogue to build the shared city? What works and what is realistic?

09.30 - 09.45 Introduction
History of collaboration on this topic
Dr Bill Neill, Queen's University, Belfast
Dr Hanns-Uve Schwedler, European Academy
of the Urban Environment, Berlin

09.45 - 10.15 Evolving ideas of European citizenship
Professor Elizabeth Meehan, Director, Institute of Governance,
Queen's University, Belfast

10.15 - 10.45 Citizenship and Place in Cities
Professor Jean Hillier, University of Newcastle

11.15 - 11.45 Report from Council of Europe: shared cities
strand of programme on intercultural dialogue
Robin Wilson, chairperson, Democratic Dialogue, Belfast

• Civic Republicanism and multi-culturalism (20 min)
  Dr Iseult Honohan, University College Dublin
• Case study of integration / exclusion in Dublin (20 min)
  Dr Declan Redmond, University College Dublin
• Case study Belfast: Citizenship across the divide (20 min)
  Mary McKee and Sylvia Gordon, Groundwork Northern Ireland, Belfast

Discussion

• England / London

• Governance, local identity and territory (20 min)
  Professor Mark Tewdwr-Jones, University College London
• Case study London: new localism (20 min)
  Professor Janice Morphet, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, London

Discussion

• Germany / Berlin

• Case study Berlin: Migrants - at present and in the future (20 min)
  Professor Dr. Hartmut Häußermann, Humboldt University of Berlin
• Political versus social integration (20 min)
  Günter Piening, Commissioner for Integration and Migration, Berlin City Government, Regional Ministry for Health, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection (tbc)
• Case study Berlin: Planning for a united Berlin (20 min)
  Professor Dr. Max Welch Guerra, Bauhaus University, Weimar (tbc)

Discussion

• Netherlands
  The Dutch approach in planning for multi-culturalism post-Fortuyn (30 min)
  Professor Hugo Priemus, University of Delft

• Italy
  Cultural integration and assimilation in Turin and Verona (30 min)
  Professor Ann Vanessa Maher, University of Verona

• Denmark
  Local versus European identity - the case of South Denmark (30 min)
  Professor Sten Engelstoft, Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen

Discussion

10.45 - 11.15 Coffee

• France
  Being and living together in French cities: a conflicting cooperative process paved with euphemisms (30 min)
  Professor Claude Jacquier, Institute for Political Studies, Pierre Mendes France University, Grenoble
• Slovak Republic
  Community organising and the integration of Sinti and Roma (30 min)
  Chuck Hirt, Centre for Community Organising, Banska Bystrica (tbc)

• Czech Republic
  (topic tbc) (30 min)
  Dr. Jaroslav Sonka, European Academy Berlin

Discussion

• Cyprus
  Yiannos Papadopolous, Director, Department of Town Planning and Housing, Ministry of Interior, Nicosia
• Bosnia Herzegovina
  Professor Sten Engelstoft, Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen
• Portugal
  Cultural divisions in changing Lisbon (30 min)
• Professor Graca Moreira, Technical University of Lisbon

Discussion

Coffee

16.00 Final discussion: Common European goals and approaches?

The European spatial picture and the changes under way (20 min)
Professor Dr. Klaus R. Kunzmann, Department of Spatial Planning in Europe,
University of Dortmund

Mixing and separating?

Professor Victor Blease, University of Ulster, Belfast

Final summing up: Dr Hanns-Uve Schwedler and Dr Bill Neill