1. ImpleMentoring workshops – Tampere 10 September 2013
What is the ImpleMentoring project?
Our partnership
The ImpleMentoring project is an initiative of EUROCITIES, aiming to support cities in putting into practice
the principles of the Integrating Cities Charter launched in 2010. The project is financed by the European
Commission from its European Fund for the Integration of Third Country Nationals (EIF). It runs from late
2012 to spring 2014. Led by EUROCITIES, it is a partnership between 12 cities from ten EU countries and
MigrationWork CIC as facilitator. Three other cities are associates. (Participants are listed overleaf.)
From Charter to practice
ImpleMentoring promotes mutual learning between cities in four thematic areas of integration. Each
reflects a major principle of the EUROCITIES’ Integrating Cities Charter:
(A) Enhancing public perception on migration and diversity
(B) Managing diversity and promoting equality in cities’ administration and service provision
(C) Making participation effective in diverse neighbourhoods
(D) Engagement in local policy-making processes and political participation of migrant communities
For each theme ImpleMentoring has produced a benchmark, the project’s core instrument. It identifies a
set of ‘key factors’ which are the concrete conditions for success in this thematic area. They are drawn from
a transnational survey of recent work, plus the experience of project partners. The benchmark defines the
standard which a city needs to aim at, if it wants to match Europe’s best practice in that area of integration.
ImpleMentoring: building relationships, planning for change
ImpleMentoring uses an innovative learning method in which cities help one another to map out a practical
pathway towards better practice, within a Europe-wide framework – the benchmark. Within each theme,
partner cities opt for one or other of these roles:
• An implementing city (IC) aims through ImpleMentoring to improve selected aspects of its work. Using
the benchmark as a checklist to see strengths and challenges in its current practice, the IC works with a
mentor city to identify what needs to change. Then with the mentor it plans the steps needed to
achieve this change - and starts to carry them out.
• The mentor city supports the IC partly by drawing on its own experience, but equally by being a good
listener who understands the realities of city administration and the challenges of integration work.
With this trusted external partner, IC colleagues can explore concerns and develop ideas in confidence.
The mentor helps them to identify a realistic solution, and work towards it.
The project sets up a mentoring visit to each implementing city. In this short visit a representative of the
mentor city, with a facilitator and EUROCITIES, gathers evidence – especially by talking to local residents and
practitioners – and works with the IC to explore options for change. The implementing city with its mentor
and facilitator then draws up a roadmap showing the actions it will take to achieve this change. Dialogue
with the mentor continues through the project, as the IC begins to act on its roadmap.
Output from ImpleMentoring will include toolkits which make the benchmarks – with good practice
examples and other supporting material – available to cities across Europe.

2. ImpleMentoring partners
• Lead partner
EUROCITIES: the network of major European cities
Contact: Thomas Jézéquel - Project coordinator thomas.jezequel@eurocities.eu
• Facilitator
MigrationWork CIC: not-for-profit consultancy on migration and integration
Contacts
o Team lead / theme C: Richard Stanton - richard.stanton@migrationwork.org
o Theme A: Sue Lukes - sue.lukes@migrationwork.org
o Theme B: Anna Reisenberger - anna.reisenberger@migrationwork.org
o Theme D: Simon Güntner - simon.guentner@haw-hamburg.de
• Partner cities
o Aarhus **
o Amsterdam ‡
o Athens
o Copenhagen **
o Dublin (New Communities Partnership)
o Genoa
o Ghent
o Lublin (Nowy Staw Foundation)
o Malmö
o Manchester
o Milan
o Oslo **
o Riga
o Rotterdam
o Tampere
** Associate cities – self-financed
‡ Joined project May 2013
Project funded by DG Home Affairs of the European Commission, from the European Fund for the
Integration of Third Country Nationals