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04 February 2013
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) -
Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)
Pietro Grasso, as Antimafia National Direction Head, has received- during the 18° Antimafia National Summit held in occasion of the tenth anniversary of the death of the judge Caponetto – “MEDITERRANEAN AWARD RAFFAELE CAPASSO FOR LEGALITY” (medal of honour) 2012”.
On that occasion, the President of the Fondazione Caponnetto Salvatore Calleri together with the President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo Michele Capasso, and more than 500 delegates and students participating in the venue, announced the establishment of MOMOC (The Mediterranean Observatory on Mafia and Organized Crime).
While receiving a copy of the book “Mare Nostro Mare” by Michele Capasso, the honorary President of the Fondazione Caponnetto, Elisabetta Caponnetto – widow of the Judge and founder of the “pool” – stated that she recognized the values of Honesty and Solidarity, which her husband had in common with President Capasso, who both worked for the “Common Good”.
The President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, Michele Capasso, architect, reminisced about his research in 1979, when as a young architect, he demonstrated the model used by Brunelleschi for the construction of the Dome. He was attending an event to celebrate the discovery of a model of the Dome which makes clear reference to the “fishbone system” used to raise the dome with stone blocks reaffirms Brunelleschi’s technique thanks to excavations carried our by the Cathedral Works.
At the Trieste Film Festival, with whom the Fondazione Mediterraneo has been collaborating since1995, the 2013 Mediterranean Cinema Award for the best short film was awarded to “Deda” (Waiting for Mum) by Nana Ekvtimishvili. The film focuses on a man’s voice calling his mother and was awarded by a jury of young people.