PNAC

Aimed at promoting mutual understanding and appreciation for diversity

1. Fostering the teaching of the principles and values of the Alliance of Civilizations, within the framework of the basic competences to be attained by students by the end of their obligatory schooling, and of a globalizing and transcultural vision of human relations; restoring the values of humanistic training.
2. Strengthening cooperation projects whose development objectives coincide with the principles and objectives of the Alliance of Civilizations, and planning a series of specific grants for young people from priority cooperation countries, aimed at activities of this nature.
3. Promoting exchanges with students of both genders, particularly with those from the Arab world, continuing current programmes with those from Ibero-America, and defining a grant programme for university students, especially aimed at those from the Maghreb.
4. A training plan for Spanish Arabists. Signing an agreement with the Mohammed V University in Rabat to support Moroccan Hispanists. 
5. The teaching of minority religions in schools will continue, in line with the Cooperation Agreements with the Federation of Evangelical Religious Organizations, the Federation of Jewish Communities and the Islamic Commission, and, if appropriate, with those that may be signed in future with other religious denominations. More intensive teaching, in the sphere of pre-university and university education, of issues concerning religious and cultural plurality; implementation of teacher-training programmes for teachers of religion and for teachers in general, on issues concerning religious and cultural plurality.
6. Promoting an academic training plan for the religious staff of minority denominations that have a Cooperation Agreement with the State, as well as a grant programme for such training.
7. Creating an Annual Intercultural Capital Award for the outstanding Spanish city in this field.
8. The Resource Centre for Cultural Diversity will proceed to disseminate the values of the Alliance by publishing educational material, and it will cooperate to this purpose with the other Public Administrations.
9. Actions aimed at including the Alliance in the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and in the celebration of European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008.
10. Greater collaboration with the EuroMed Permanent University Forum with the aim of consolidating cooperation in this area of research and higher education.
11. Creating new thematic routes, in line with the Quetzal Route model.
12. Preparing a programme of subsidies for research projects and complementary actions, based on the principles and goals of the Alliance of Civilizations. This framework will include joint projects carried out by specialists from Spain and the Maghreb countries, particularly concerning the history of their bilateral relations. 
13. Making use of the Youth and Development University as a global forum for young student leaders.
14. Extending the Intercultural Encounters Programme to secondary schools in countries of the southern rim of the Mediterranean.
15. Creating a Volunteer Corps of the Alliance of Civilizations.
16. Contributing to the World Youth Solidarity Fund.
17. Restoring the façade of the Sarajevo Library.
18. Action Plan as set out in the Ibero-American Cultural Charter.