THE FOUNDATION PARTICIPATES IN THE EVENT "YEMEN: EMERGENCY WITHOUT BORDERS, SOLIDARITY WITHOUT BORDERS"

Naples | 08 July 2021
Parent Category: Tutte le Attività (EN) - Category: Anno 2021

Yemen, the most serious humanitarian crisis of our time.
The country is exhausted and the suffering suffered by the population has reached levels never seen before. The figures speak for themselves: 20.7 million people need humanitarian aid to survive.
Over 4 million people have been forced to flee their homes and are now displaced within national borders.
The escalation of the conflict has led to a dramatic increase in the prices of food and other raw materials.
Consequently, the main problem right now is the lack of food: around 16 million people suffer from hunger.
In some areas of the country, about 1 in 4 children suffer from acute malnutrition.

Guests:

• Annalisa Camilli, journalist of Internazionale
• Marco Rotunno, Senior Cluster Coordination Officer di UNHCR in Yemen

Moderate:

• Laura Iucci, UNHCR Italy fundraising director

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CEREMONY FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF THE "MARE NOSTRUM AWARD 2021"

Naples | 28 June 2021
Parent Category: Tutte le Attività (EN) - Category: Anno 2021

The award ceremony of the XIIIth Edition of the “Mare Nostrum Award 2021” took place in Naples, at the Grand Hotel Vesuvio.
Created by “Grimaldi Magazine” Mare Nostrum Awards is dedicated to the promotion of the Motorways of the Sea. The goal is to enhance this exceptional opportunity for exchanges, connections and sustainable development for all the countries of the Mediterranean area.
The international jury of the Prize, chaired by the journalist Bruno Vespa and composed of important personalities from the world of culture and journalism, has decreed the following five winners, with a total prize money of 50 thousand euros:

1. Concita Borrelli for the article "The sea awaits us, it will be a return to normality" published in "Il Messaggero";
2. Morena Pivetti for the article "We must prepare well who comes after" published in "Fortune";
3. Antonio Polito for the article "I miss the sea. Our raw material" published in "7 - Corriere della Sera";
4. Alessio Postiglione for the article "Mare Nostrum, Italy still protagonist. Motorways of the sea" published in "Il Riformista";
5. Marcello Sorgi for the article "Sink the Santamarina" published in "La Stampa"..

The ceremony was presented by the conductor Massimo Giletti and saw the participation of personalities from the institutional, information and shipping world.
The special prize "Cavaliere del Lavoro Guido Grimaldi", established by the Grimaldi family in memory of the founder of the Grimaldi Group, was awarded to the journalist Daniele Manca, deputy director and columnist of Corriere della Sera.
Mare Nostrum Awards is an international journalistic award dedicated to the promotion of sea travel in the Mediterranean and in particular to the knowledge of the Motorways of the Sea, with the aim of enhancing commercial and cultural exchanges, maritime connections and sustainable development. Journalistic services, documentaries, television and radio services, photographic reports and economic-tourist surveys made in Italian, English, Spanish, Catalan, French or Greek and presented by authors residing in Italy, Spain, Greece, Tunisia and Morocco are admitted to the competition.
The 14th edition of the Mare Nostrum Awards will be launched in September 2021. The announcement will be published on the website of the Regional Orders of Journalists and on the websites of Grimaldi and the Fondazione Mediterraneo.
The International Jury of the Award is made up of leading exponents of journalism and culture. President is Bruno Vespa flanked, among others, by Vassiliki Armogeni, Greek journalist of Efoplistis magazine, Michele Capasso, President of the Mediterranean Foundation, Mimmo Jodice, photographer, Paul Kyprianou, former President of the RoRo European Shipowners Association, Rosalba Giugni, president of Marevivo.
The secretary of the Award is Luciano Bosso, journalist and editor of the Grimaldi Magazine Mare Nostrum.

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THE GIFT OF THE "VESUVIUS" FRAMEWORK AND THE DOCUFILM "THE HISTORY OF VESUVIUS"

Naples | 26 June 2021
Parent Category: Tutte le Attività (EN) - Category: Anno 2021

Doctor Fabio Perricone donated his work entitled "Vesuvius" to president Michele Capasso.
At the same time, Professor Abdelhak Azzouzi announced the forthcoming production of a docufilm entitled “THE STORY OF VESUVIUS.
THE IMPOSSIILE POSSIILE ": a simple testimony, a" collage "of some moments in Michele Capasso's life that demonstrate how indispensable it is today to act with determination to face the main challenges: climate change, destruction of creation, pandemics, social injustices.

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COVID 19, THE APPEAL OF THE FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO: "THE IDEAL VACCINE MUST BE PRODUCED AND SPREAD"

Naples | 23 June 2021
Parent Category: Tutte le Attività (EN) - Category: Anno 2021

"We are all currently undergoing mass testing. The current vaccine has short-term immune coverage and is hypothesized to trigger thrombotic phenomena. It is essential to achieve the production and dissemination of a vaccine that is safe and accessible to all: the ideal vaccine." It is essential to achieve the production and dissemination of a vaccine that is safe and accessible to all: the ideal vaccine. "This is what the Fondazione Mediterraneo and its experts underline is necessary in this moment, in which the Coronavirus pandemic has generated an information chaos and of indications.
Corrado Perricone, Neapolitan hematologist former head of the Immunohematology Center of Santobono-Pausilypon and former member of the Superior Health Council, explains:
"Since the Spike protein was highlighted, in relation to its possible use as a Coronavirus vaccine, we had dreamed of having solved the problem: today, on the other hand, we find ourselves having to face a new reality, namely that of finding other more valid alternative solutions".
"We are all the subject of a mass experimentation with current vaccines", underlines the Fondazione Mediterraneo in the appeal: moreover, the current vaccine that "has a short-term immune coverage, being immunity linked to the virus in its entirety it contains as components 27 proteins while the vaccines in use can only use the one available that is the Spike protein".
The "ideal vaccine should have high immunogenicity and an established ability to induce effective immune responses".
The problem of thrombi and the two proposed investigations.
The researchers at Northeastern University in Boston hypothesize that it may be the viral protein "S" that triggers the thrombotic phenomena, "binding the now well-known ACE 2 receptor on the endothelium (inner lining) of the vessels and thus triggering the cascade of events that leads to the formation of thrombi", continues the haematologist.
The former member of the CSS explains that before this crisis the vaccine was understood as a "method of immunization through the insertion into the human body of an attenuated pathogen or a subunit of it". Unfortunately, "it escapes most of us - he continues - that the administration has an absorption phase that brings it into the systemic circulation so that the organism recognized as a foreign body produces selective antibodies against protein S. In reality, the production of protein S does not is under control and consequently the secretion and production of protein S and also the associated risks are absolutely unpredictable".
In this regard, Perricone underlines the study just published in the European Journal of Internal Medicine entitled "Sars Cov2 Vaccines: Lights and Shadows", "which takes stock of protein S and its possible role in inducing alterations in endothelial function. and platelet aggregability; this unpredictability could also explain the susceptibility of people without a known thromboembolic risk".
The Fondazione Mediterraneo proposes two surveys. The first: "Check the normal functioning of the immune system to be sure that the subject is suitable and will be able to withstand the vaccine, taking note of any risk", where "it appears essential to give a certain certainty of not having a predisposition hereditary (quite frequent case) that can be carried out by means of a flow cytometer and a simple sampling". The second: “the search for the genetic variant factor II and factor V Leiden as well as MTHFR”.

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