Intercultural Cities Index Charts

Most cities have a diverse population including people of different nationalities, origins, languages, religions/beliefs, sexual orientations and age groups. Intercultural integration is a policy approach that encourages citizens to regard this diversity as a resource rather than a problem and accept that all cultures change as they encounter each other in the public arena.

As cities embrace the intercultural approach to diversity, they need to take stock of their achievements and challenges as a point of departure for the development of their intercultural strategies. In order to sustain motivation and adjust their efforts, cities need to assess progress over time and see whether they can learn from other cities which have concrete experience in this field.

The Intercultural cities index (ICC-Index) supports all these objectives. The ICC-Index webtool is therefore a benchlearning tool that graphically displays all ICC members’ index results (overall results and policy areas).

Cities can

• compare their achievement with others to assess where the city stands in the different governance/policy areas that foster intercultural integration.
• identify strengths and weaknesses and determine in which governance/policy areas efforts should be concentrated in the future.
• compare the city’s achievements with those of other cities.
• assess progress over time.

The benchmarking sample can be individually selected. It is also possible to compare with other cities by filtering population size or demographic diversity. City comparison can be based on the “original ICC-Index” or on the “extended index”. The “original index” is based on a number of core questions (that has been only slightly adopted since 2009). The “extended index” compasses the original index as well as the new questions added in 2019. The relevant policy areas will be displayed according to the selected index and can be individually selected.