2023 Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"

The Multicultural Center Brusinka in Brno would like to achieve higher levels of equality, community empowerment in our city, which becomes multicultural because of a high number of foreign students and workers. Our students are coming from diverse cultural backgrounds. 

We are supporting people in the fields of international migration, social inclusion, and global development. For us it's the most important thing to achieve higher levels of equality, including diversity as a criterion for inclusion. We would like to empower non-organised citizens to create a community and participatory democracy “ecosystem”.

The Multicultural Center Brusinka in Brno is promoting the idea that culture and language are not to blame, and that every foreigner has the right to a personal opinion and expression. Its focus is intercultural, and provides a place where members representing a variety of backgrounds, participate in programs and activities. We would like to ensure effective collaboration between the city of Brno and foreigners. 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.

As a Multicultural Center we are a special safe 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 intergenerational 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. 

It is really important to create here a profound and comprehensive system of services in the private, public and also non-profit sectors for the integration of foreigners. National 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.

• More information: https://brusinkabrno.cz/en/welcome/ (External link)