The Intercultural School Seal, created in 2012, aims to distinguish the Schools that stand out in the promotion of projects aiming at the acknowledgement and the valuing of diversity as an opportunity and learning source for everyone.
This is a joint initiative of the General Directorate of the Ministry of Education and Science Education (DGE) and the High Commission for Migration (ACM, P.I.), which is proving an important contribution to the school's work, specifically in personal and social education of children, youth and adults as well as active citizenship, indispensable to the construction of "democratic societies respecting cultural and linguistic diversity" (European Commission, 2002).
The Intercultural School Seal brings some challenges and tips to schools, allowing them to open horizons, adopt new perspectives, question practices, facilitating a critical assessment of the intervention in a multicultural context.
The applicant schools for the distinction with the Seal Intercultural School are invited to fill out an Assessment Guide of Intercultural Education Practices, which aims to be both a checklist and an educational tool for promoting intercultural education at school.
The application period, which usually occurs in September, is always previously announced.
