2014 (EN)

FIVE YEARS IN SAIL, THE "PROJECT MEDITERRANEAN"

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Roma  ||  10 April 2014
Tutte le Attività (EN) - Anno 2014

A journey into the culture of the Mare Nostrum, the Mediterranean, with a sailing boat that will sail for five years along a route of 20 thousand miles. And 'the basic idea of the "Mediterranean Project" means a shipment cultural, scientific and relationships between people, that will be carried writer and sailor Simone Perotti and his group of about 60 people taking turns on a sailing boat 18 meters to sail around the Mediterranean, the Black Sea and the northern Red Sea.
The RIDE - Italian Network for the Mediterranean Dialogue euro - and the Fondazione Mediterraneo between the partners of the initiative; media partnership, the Agency ANSA.
The three main objectives of the trip: the first is "Water: no one before us has ever brought attention as the Mediterranean. The second culture: our project and 'linked to numerous research institutes and universities' Italian, but also to Italian and foreign cultural institutes who believe in our values​​. finally we have scientific objectives, 'cause the boat is a floating laboratory. "
The project "Mediterranean", presented in Rome at the Library of the Sea, while sailing with a stopover in over one hundred coastal cities of 29 countries in the three continents Europe, Asia and Africa. The route will be on May 17 in San Benedetto del Tronto, returning to Genoa. During the five years of sailing, Mediterranean, sailing boat of 18 meters powered solely by renewable energy sources (solar and wind), will operate as apppunto floating laboratory, carrying out research and experiments together with researchers from the British Sahfos (Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science), Professor Ferdinando Boero University of Salento and ISMAR-CNR, University of Siena, and the CMCC (Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change).
The shipment marks the first worldwide experience of co-sailing, supported by dozens of people who share its aims and contribute economically compartecipando first person to travel in relays on-board and ground-support as a team. "We want to show that any project, even the most ambitious, can be realized through the cooperation of motivated people who share the same passion, with an approach inspired by the principles of 'sharing economy'," said Perotti. The project is sponsored by, among others, the General Command of the Harbour, the Italian Naval League.
Mediterranean will raise the symbol of the "Totem of Peace" by sculptor Mario Molinari - that the Fondazione Mediterraneo is spreading all over the world - and the flags of the City of San Benedetto del Tronto and the City of Lampedusa.