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CHAIRE AVERROÈS STARTES AGAIN ITS TRAVEL
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11 June 2015
“UNESCO Averroès Chaire” of High Mediterranean Studies - founded in 1999 by Fondazione Mediterraneo and University Cadi Ayyad of Marrakech (UCAM) –starts again its travel. During a meeting between the president Michele Capasso, the president of UCAM Abdellatif Miraoui and the vice-president Bougadir Blaïd, were defined the guidelines for the improvement of the “Chaire” that, during 10 years, has involved personalities from several countries and thousands of student.
THE FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO IS IN GRIEF FOR FOUAD ALLAM, ONE OF THE FIRST FOUNDERS OF THE INSTITUTION
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10 June 2015
On Wednesday 10 June Khaled Fouad Allam tragically left us in a hotel in Rome, after have been affected by a sudden illness.
He was an Algerian sociologist who worked in the University of the Studies of Trieste, and was also deputy for the Ulivo political party in 2006, during the XIV legislature.
I still remember the first time that I saw him. It was 1994 and along with Predrag Matvejevic', Claudio Magris, Vittorio Nisticò, Igor Man, Nedim Gursel, Gerardo Marotta and other friends we prepared the programs of the Fondazione Mediterraneo and the initiatives in favour of the populations of Ex-Yugoslavia, affected by one of the greatest tragedies after the second world war.
Fouas was immediately one of us: with his great knowledge that was also method and was accompanied by intellectual honesty, first of all, it was impossible to induce the people to compare with superiority in confronts of the others.
He was an extremely cordial person and his strong French accent was a characteristic of his speeches.
Khaled Fouad Allam has been an example of dialogue, peace, intellectual and moral integrity. In spite of his tragical death, the lessons he gave to use are still valid, and these lessons were spreaded not only through his job – the University, the conferences, the political activity, the conventions – but also through his behaviour, always calm, respectful, competent, opened towards the highest manifestations of the humanity and critic regarding every form of discrimination or violence.
We will keep the heritage which he has left to us.
ONE MINUTE FOR PEACE
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08 June 2015
AZIONE CATTOLICA ITALIANA - AZIONE CATTOLICA ARGENTINA
FIAC International Forum Azione Cattolica
UMOFC World Union of Catholic Women Organization
Francis Pope, after the pilgrimage in Holy Land, invited in His “house” the President of Israel and the Palestinian Authority for a prayer meeting for peace on the 8 june of 2014 in Vatican in Rome.
The Pope asked to the church to pray for this unprecedent meeting which got the world attention. On June 6 of 2014 the initiative “ONE MINUTE POR LA PAZ- ONE MINUTE FOR PEACE” was launched, in preparation of the meeting sponsored by the Pope. We gathered in a simple, short and accessible to all prayer.
The applications to the event has been significant in several countries, in particular, through Facebook were collected almost 10.000 applications in a short time.
All over this year we remembered what Francis Pope said on the 8 June of 2014:
“Our meeting for the claim of peace in Holy Land, in Middle East and in the whole world has been accompanied by the prayer of people of different religions: people who prayed for this meeting and now are bond to us in the same invocation. It is a meeting which is a response to the warm desire to people who is struggling for peace and dream about where men and women could live together as friends and not as enemies”.
“Questo nostro incontro di invocazione della pace in Terra Santa, in Medio Oriente e in tutto il mondo è accompagnato dalla preghiera di tantissime persone, appartenenti a diverse culture, patrie, lingue e religioni: persone che hanno pregato per questo incontro e che ora sono unite a noi nella stessa invocazione. È un incontro che risponde all’ardente desiderio di quanti anelano alla pace e sognano un mondo dove gli uomini e le donne possano vivere da fratelli e non da avversari o da nemici.”
CASTEL DELL'OVO: ON EXHIBITION THE PHOTOGRAPHIES OF MOLINARI’S WORKS
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05 June 2015
Augusto Montaruli photographes the works of Molinari’s house: a travel through the works of the artist “sculptor of the artist”, his irony, his culture. An exhibition in the evocative structure of Castel Dell’Ovo, which through the photography tells the “travels” in Molinari’s house and the magic which dwells in it. The beauty and the colours. The forms and the words. Copper sculptures, scenographyc artworks, drawings. A travel and a photographic report about Mario Molinari and his Museum House, lead by the several hands which Molinari always loved to draw. The event got the patronage of Culture and Tourism Naples Department and Fondazione Mediterraneo.
With the collaboration of Jacopo Molinari (Mario Molinari’s association) and Massimo Pizzoglio (Dobhran Cultural Association).
Joined the vernissage Pia Molinari, Fara Paolillo, Michele Capasso, Edith di Pace, Antonio Luongo.
FRANCIS POPE PEACE MESSENGER
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05 June 2015
Pope Francis visited the city of Sarajevo as peace messenger. In this occasion he has emphasized the importance of the interreligious dialogue as pillar of peace. “NO MORE WARS, NO MORE DEAD MEN IN SARAJEVO”, these were the words of the Pope. A delegation from the Fondazione Mediterraneo joined the event. The President Capasso has highlighted the aim of Fondazione which was established with the aim to help Ex Yugoslavia and explained the different steps of the personal engagement of different members of the Foundation.
MEDCOP 21: MEDITERRANEAN CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE
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04 June 2015
The Mediterranean Civil Society Forum about climate change will be held on 4 and 5 June in Marseille.
Mediterranean civil society: local authorities, consular & economic chambers, NGO’s, researchers, associations... are gathered to address the challenge of climate change in the Mediterranean area on the occasion of MEDCOP21.
This worldwide civil society forum fits into 2015 Paris Climate Conference - COP21. In the presence of State representatives, the exchanges and debates will contribute to building a real Mediterranean positive agenda in order to reinforce the global efforts made to fight against climate change.
These two days will be built around meetings, round tables & workshops.
II FORUM ABOUT EUROPEAN CIVIL SOCIETY – SOUTHERN NEIGHBOURHOOD.
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28 May 2015
Co-hosted by the Committee of the Regions (CoR), the European External Action Service (EEAS), the European Commission (DG DEVCO and DG NEAR) and the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), the "Second Southern Neighbourhood Civil Society Forum" will take place in Brussels on 28-29 May 2015.
The Forum is part of a larger initiative launched by the Commission in 2013 to create a mechanism for sustained dialogue between civil society, the EU and authorities – including regional and local authorities – in the Middle East and North Africa region, and the main topics on the agenda of this second edition will be the review of the European Neighbourhood Policy and civil society's role in de-radicalisation efforts. High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini, European Parliament President Martin Schulz and Commissioner Johannes Hahn, together with the co-Presidents of ARLEM, will be among the high level speakers addressing the Forum.
The Fondazione Mediterraneo joined the Forum as a sign of the twentyfive years dedicated to the dialogue about Civil Society since the Barcellona Forum of 1995 until that one of Naples 2014.
THE JURY OF PREMIO GRIMALDI IN NAPLES
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28 May 2015
The Jury of "Grimaldi Mare Nostrum Award" took place, as usual, in Naples. The international jury, lead by the writer and director Folco Quilici, rewarded the poems about the sea written by Piero Ottone, the compositions of Cesar Urrutia who forecasts the modification of the road transport which will use alternative ways and the sustainable proposals made by Carlo Alessandro Argenzio and Giuseppe Speranza, and rewarded also Rossend Domenech and Alessandro Sansoni which analyzed the geopolitical role of Italy in Mare Nostrum, becoming aware of the necessity of a plan of investments, mostly in the portual sphere.
BAKU 2015 – FIRST EDITION OF EUROPEAN GAMES
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25 May 2015
The first edition of the European Games will take place in Baku from 12 to 18 June 2015, with the presence of athletes from various European countries.
The United States of the World supports this event, aware that sport is an essential pillar in intercultural and interreligious dialogue and contributes to supporting and strengthening peace among peoples.
Secretary General Michele Capasso, who was present in Baku with other members of the international institution, presented the title of "Standard Bearers of the United States of the World" to all the young people from Azerbaijan who are involved in organising the event and promoting the values of sport and human brotherhood.
MUNICIPIO SQUARE: TWO ARCHITECTS, TWO STORIES
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23 May 2015
In the occasion of the opening ceremony of Metropolitan Station of Municipio Square, after 15 years of works, two architects and friends met up: Alvaro Siza e Michele Capasso. The first has the occasion to see finished (almost) his artwork: a complex and interesting challenge between past and future. The second, after 25 years of struggle for peace and dialogue, can attend to the work for multimedia reallocation of MAMT, which has its entrance in Municipio Square and which from this square will tell and moved the audience in a travel to the Mediterranean. Two stories, two friends linked by mutual respect and the belief that only a serious engagement and real knowledge could be the antidote for lack of morals and the banality of our days.