Program Length: 2016-2018
The Welcoming Communities Transatlantic Exchange brought together teams of integration practitioners from the United States and Germany to share best practices in integrating newcomers into their communities. A strong focus was placed on refugee integration and engagement of the receiving community. In 2016, Cultural Vistas organized a program for 40 participants from both countries, including meetings with integration practitioners and local government representatives in Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Mannheim, Dresden, Altenberg, Pirna, and Berlin.
WCTE was funded by the Transatlantic Program of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany through funds of the European Recovery Program (ERP) of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi), as well as by the U.S. Department of State, the Robert Bosch Stiftung, and the Heinrich Böll Foundation North America.