The exclusionist and discrimination narratives that arise throughout Europe also reach Spain and therefore the City of Barcelona. To give an example, in a training group with 15 adults in Spain, 3 participants would feel uncomfortable with a Muslim or Roma colleague.

In this context, thecultural heritage, that is, the traditions and rites that order and hold our society together, is an essential tool to recover Europe's plural past in favor of inclusive and safe coexistence spaces. According to the report "Barcelona: Sustainable Future", cultural heritage does not only encompass buildings and landscapes, butit also includes all those intangible values and cultural practices that enrich lifeand facilitate "coexistence, through the (re)creation of common meanings and an identity that can be shared by very different people." Precisely for this reason, the people who visit the city must be known and understood, but before and with more emphasis those who live in it.

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The international conference aims to present the result of the process that began in 2020 with the Erasmus+ project "REBELAH: Religion, beliefs, and laicity in cultural heritage to foster social inclusion in adult trainings”, co-financed by the European Commission. Since the preparation of the project, a research and piloting process was carried out with six organizations in four European countries: La Xixa and the Ibn Battuta Foundation in Barcelona, Storytelling Center in Amsterdam, Kepes in Budapest, Elan Intercultural in Paris and the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies (group in charge of the Master's in Religion and Cultural Heritage), from the University of Groningen.