The Creative Europe programme can fund activities that recognise and celebrate the contribution refugees and migrants make to cultural diversity in Europe. Culture can be a means for refugees and migrants to meet, communicate with and become part of existing communities.

12 REFUGEE INTEGRATION PROJECTS TO RECEIVE CREATIVE EUROPE FUNDING

Grants for a total of €2.35 million and involve 62 organisations from 20 countries. The projects have been granted funding after responding to April 2016's special Creative Europe call for cultural projects supporting the integration of refugees.

The Creative Europe programme safeguards and promotes Europe's cultural and linguistic diversity, itself a result of centuries of cross-cultural interactions, influences and migrations.

European cooperation projects can create intercultural dialogue and help bring communities together. Culture and cinema can bridge gaps between people in a peaceful way and encourage mutual understanding between host country populations and refugees and migrants.

Integration and inclusion are processes built by refugees, migrants and host communities collectively. Creative Europe supports cultural and audiovisual projects which can help people socialise and express themselves without relying on any one language. Such projects create a better understanding of new shared contexts and can raise awareness about migration, its causes and its effects.