The activity program of this pilot project aims at promoting, through ethnographic museums and diasporas, a new relation to the “Other”, which will also inspire a societal reflection in a multicultural Europe. Within the first phase of the READ-ME project, three scientific workshops have been held in Stockholm, Paris and Rome and they resulted in the organization of a symposium in the Africa Museum of Tervuren [BE] and a final publication. Exhibition and catalogue "Persona. Masks of Africa: identities hidden and revealed".