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The award ceremony for the XIth edition of the "Mare Nostrum Award 2018" took place in Rome.
Created by "Grimaldi Magazine" Mare Nostrum Awards is dedicated to the promotion of the Motorways of the Sea. The aim is to enhance this exceptional opportunity for exchanges, links and sustainable development for all the Mediterranean countries.
The prize money of Mare Nostrum Awards amounts, as every year, to 50,000 euros divided among the top five classified this year:

  • Manolis Dimellas with the article entitled "Motorways of the sea: when lands become one", published in the Greek online publication "huffingtonpost.gr";
  • Silvia Fernandez with the article entitled "The motorways of the sea that the" Brexit "will not stop", published in the Spanish newspaper "El Mundo";
  • Samira Hamrouni with the article entitled "And if the solution came from the motorways of the sea", published in the Tunisian weekly "La Presse Business";
  • El Mostafa Fakhir with the article entitled "Motorways of the sea: their success will only pass through a complementarity between road transport and maritime transport", published on the Moroccan online magazine "maritimenews.ma";
  • Antonella Maffei with video-services broadcast on the "TG REGIONE CAMPANIA".

The special prize "Cavaliere del Lavoro Guido Grimaldi", established by the Grimaldi family, has been recognized by journalist Enzo Cappucci, a Rai journalist and photographer, for his photographic reports, which, through geometric lines of landscapes, horizon cuts, and perspectives of light, return the joy of discovering how much there is still to tell of the sea.
The International Award Jury is made up of leading exponents of journalism and culture. After the death of Folco Quilici, the new president is Bruno Vespa, among others, by Vassiliki Armogeni, Greek journalist of the Efoplistis magazine, Michele Capasso, President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, Diana De Feo, RAI journalist, Mimmo Jodice, photographer, Paul Kyprianou, former President of the RoRo European Union, Rosalba Giugni, president of Marevivo.
Luciano Bosso, journalist and director of the magazine Grimaldi Magazine Mare Nostrum, is the Secretary of the Award.
On this occasion, President Capasso presented the latest activities of the Fondazione Mediterraneo and the Museum of Peace - MAMT: in particular the WORLD PEACE FORUM.
The 12th edition of the Mare Nostrum Awards will be launched in September 2018 and will end in April 2019.
The related announcement will be open from next September in the regional offices of journalists and on the websites www.grimaldi.napoli.it and www.grimaldi-lines.com.

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Renato Caruso, an emerging musician, accompanied by Riccardo Vitanza and president Michele Capasso, visited the Museum of Peace - MAMT and the sections dedicated to Pino Daniele and Mario Molinari, on the occasion of the recent presentation of the Pitagora pensaci tu disc.
Pitagora pensaci tu think about you from a musical point of view a very special and varied album, in which all the different influences that are part of the world of Renato live together: the bossa nova mixes with oriental melodies, the classical melody joins the blues. The artist likes to define his songs as small sounds: with each of these he wanted to cross, as in a long imaginary journey in music, different places ranging from Paris to Brazil, from Naples to Milan.
Inside the disc there are two covers: Tears in heaven by Eric Clapton and Quando by Pino Daniele, which Renato considers his "hidden master" as the figure that has influenced and inspired him most in his career as a musician.
The first track extracted is the title track, also accompanied by the creation of a video clip conceived and filmed by Francesco Leitner Portolesi at the Spirit de Milan. A small film, in which the images of Renato that embraces his guitar and composes the piece, alternate with those of a passionate tango reinterpreted in an original and personal key by the ballerina Filomena Lupo. Here the link for viewing.
As well as a musician, Renato is also an enthusiast of mathematics, science, philosophy and computer science who also teaches in some schools. In 2015 he published his first book LA MI RE MI and is currently working on writing the second one.
He is also the inventor of a new musical genre, the Fujabocla, which mixes various musical styles including funk, jazz, bossa nova and classical.

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After the success of the 2017 edition, the Museum of Peace - MAMT has joined "PORTO APERTO 2018" with an extraordinary opening of the Museum and of the emotional itineraries dedicated to "Migrants" and "La Campania delle emozioni".
Starting from the TOTEM OF PEACE with the urn of the Unknown Migrant - visited by Pope Francis - the visitors immersed themselves in 107 high-definition videowalls where the videos of "La Campania delle emozioni" were projected: the ports and the resources of the sea of a unique region in the world have fascinated tourists from all over the world.

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"With the signature today of an agreement defined by everyone as 'historical', Macedonia and Greece have put an end to the dispute over the name of the former Yugoslav country, which will henceforth be called 'Republic of Macedonia of the North', after 27 years. A great joy - affirms President Michele Capasso - a dream cultivated since the beginning of the Fondazione Mediterraneo and strengthened with the visits of the Presidents of the former Yugoslav Republic: among all Kiro Gligorov".
The agreement - which will have to be ratified by the respective parliaments, and in Macedonia also by a popular referendum in the fall as well as amendments to the constitution - on the one hand eliminates the blockade of Athens on the way to Skopje EU and NATO, from another, however, is harshly opposed by conservative and nationalist oppositions in both countries, where daily protests are recorded, often marked by accidents and clashes with the police.
The official signing ceremony of the document on the name and a strategic partnership between Skopje and Athens took place this morning in Psaridis, on the Greek side of Lake Prespa, on the border between the two countries. A symbolic place which also has historical significance for the Macedonians because it was linked to the beginning of the partisan struggle for liberation from Nazi-fascism during the Second World War.

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