All Events and Initiatives || Year by Year

The president of Fondazione Michele Capasso and Jacopo Molinari joined to celebration for the twenty year anniversary of Emirates Center for Strategis Studies and Research.
The events had been occasion to strengthen relationships between two organizations, in terms of geopolitics and dialogue in the area of Great Mediterranean. General Director dr. Jamal Sanad Al-Suwaidi plaused President Capasso for his peace’s efforts.

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President Capasso joined to the international Conference “The Role of Research Centers in Supporting Public Policy”.
In advanced countries progress goes ahead according to a multidimensional strategic vision, supported by prestigious and reliable research centers. In occasion of its 20 ° anniversary, and in consideration of the importance of research centers’s role in national decision progress and public policies formulation, the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Researches organized a conference named: The Role of Research Centers in Supporting Public Policy. The conference dealt with different topics- in particular the importance of research centers’s role in support and improve public order- and showed international examples from United States, Europe, Asia and Arabic world, talking about the role done by research centers helping decision maker to take resolutions. The conference talked about the challenges faced by Arabic research centers , including how motivate them to pursue their specific tasks and research activities , in general, in the Arabic world. Had been discussed roles of research centers for the reach of security and stability and presented a vision to guide the future’s studies of Arabic research centers. The conference tried to establish a link between scientific and strategic research centers, in order to capitalize their capacities in the development of new perspectives which will be useful in public political planning and decisional process. Joined to the event high profile figures as academicians, experts and functionaries from research centers coming both from United Arab Emirates and abroad.

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In occasion of 43° anniversary of United Arab Emirates, the president of Fondazione Michele Capasso paid tribute to H.H. Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan whom in 1971 established the Emirates. “A man with a clear vision of Common Good – declared the president Capasso – whom has been able to combine tradition and modernity, valorising knowledge and cultures as crucial resource for populations”. H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Foreign Affaire Ministry, in a speech given in occasion of 43 ° National Holiday, affirmed : "Our celebration of 43 ° National Holiday coincides with the preparation of our memorable and strategic project which will let us explore the space, thanks to the construction of the probe “Mars”: it will be the first step for Arabic Islamic world in this field and will be lead by an Emirates team will be able to reach Mars in the next years. The project is a clear evidence of the results obtained by Emirates in different sectors and at the same time reflects the advanced capacities of Emirates in face with the last scientific, technologic and technician evolutions.”

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In its meeting in Barcelona on 5.12.2014 - the ALF Board of Governors confirmed the nomination of the Member of the French Parliament, Elizabeth Guigou, as President of the Anna Lindh Foundation.
Commenting on her appointment, Guigou underlined the importance of supporting civil society and the wider "Mediterranean community" in the region for striving for a common future, and stressed that that the work of the Anna Lindh Foundation was "more essential than ever" in the face of significant regional challenges. She paid a 'special tribute' to President Andre Azoulay, 'who played - she said - a central role in making the Foundation a primary actor in the cooperation across the Mediterranean".

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