The project "Diversity Makes Us Richer : Not Poorer" is part of a wider project "Intimate Citizenship: The Right to Have Rights", which is supported by the European Commission's "Promotion of Active European Citizenship" programme.

The purpose of the project is to encourage the debate about the rights related to the issues of intimate citizenship, which is a concept of citizenship that has been developed within citizenship studies as well as gay and lesbian studies, and which answers the question of how an individual's completely private choices and private life affect his or her status and practice of being an equal citizen.

The goals of this project are primarily the endorsement of active tolerance, the debate about gays and lesbians as equal citizens and, above all, the support of the communication and interaction between the general population and gays and lesbians themselves, since the majority of fears, prejudices, stereotypes, and suchlike spring from ignorance.

This project wishes to strengthen the awareness that human rights belong to gays and lesbians too, that tolerance does not mean forcing gays and lesbians into privacy (saying that in their private lives they can do whatever they wish); rather, such an awareness should include the active acceptance of gays and lesbians in everyday life, and the recognition that, after all, European values are based on the acceptance of diversity, and that the rationale behind this is based on the belief that diversity makes us richer, not poorer.