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CASA UNIVERSALE DELLE CULTURE The Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture is a place strongly representative, in which will convey the knowledge of the different identities and cultures, structuring permanently initiatives aimed at the spreading of peace, necessary for the shared development. The Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture (MdP) is a project conceived by Michele Capasso, approved by many Countries and international organizations. It is an architecture that keeps the memory of many Peace activities which created history, often more than the wars, but it is – above all – a space "to build” Peace. The architectonical complex has an important symbolic worth: it represents the Countries of the World engaged in the Peace process and the Countries victim of the conflicts. Proposed by the Fondazione Mediterraneo with the “Maison des Alliances” – together with the main adherent organizations, such as the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, the League of Arab States, the "Anna Lindh" Euro-Mediterranean Foundation and others, the MdP represents a referent point for all the ones who dedicate their lives to peace. The symbol of the MdP is the "Totem for Peace", an artwork by the Italian sculptor Mario Molinari which the Fondazione Mediterraneo is promoting all around the world, creating the network of the "Cities for Peace". The first seat of the MdP was inaugurated on the 14th of June 2010 (Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture) in the historical building of the Grand Hotel de Londres in Naples. The action of the Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture aims at improving the main activities of the "Universal Forum of Cultures" in: Barcelona (2004), Monterrey (2007), Valparaiso (2010) and Naples (2013). The Maison de la Paix performs most of the initiatives jointly with the Maison de la Méditerranée. |
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22 April 2021
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Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)
The two days of videoconferencing of the “Leaders Summit on Climate”, convened by the President of the United States, Joe Biden, took place concurrently with International Earth Day. 38 prime ministers and heads of state were invited to the initiative, including Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, as well as the President of the European Commission Ursula Von der Leyen and the President of the Council of Europe, Charles Michel.
The meeting was called in Washington even though the leaders took part in it remotely due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The topics discussed include the reduction of emissions of polluting gases in order to limit the average warming of the earth's temperature to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius and the economic and social benefits of the ecological transition.
The president of China, Xi Jinping, also took part in the meeting. Despite the tensions on various issues, Washington and Beijing, the two largest economies in the world and among the most polluting countries of all, have published a joint statement in which they announced a commitment to combat climate change "with seriousness and urgency it deserves".
US President Biden has indeed announced a 50-52% cut in greenhouse gas emissions, while the Chinese one Xi Jinping has relaunched his country's commitment to "Carbon neutrality from 2060".
The president of the Mediterranean Foundation Michele Capasso, presenting the Appeal for the United States of the World, declared "The next decade will be decisive, we are on the edge of the abyss".
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19 April 2021
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Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)
The Fondazione Mediterraneo has re-launched the "APPEAL FOR THE COOPERATION OF ALL AGAINST COVID 19" in other countries of the world. On this occasion, prof. Corrado Perricone posted a comment on the J&J vaccine.
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15 April 2021
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Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)
The EuroMeSCo 2021 Annual Conference "Setting the New Agenda for the Mediterranean in Motion “Shaping Post-Covid Euromed Relations" wll be held online on April 15 at 10h30 (Brussels time) and brought together hundreds of participants around the Mediterranean: among these the Fondazione Mediterraneo, founding member of the EuroMeSCo Network.
With this event EuroMeSCo intends to actively contribute to the reflection over rolling out the new agenda for the Mediterranean, a few weeks after the release of the EU Joint Communication on the Renewed Partnership with the Southern Neighborhood. The Acting Director General of DG NEAR, Maciej Popowski, presented his Communication, after which a debate will unfold, along the main pillars of the Communication:
This event will kick off a series of national events that will take place in the coming months in some Southern Neighborhood countries: they will offer a platform for further discussions on relevant communication issues and will involve mixed groups of representatives from think tanks, academic institutions, organizations civil society and business community representatives, as well as EU officials.
At the headquarters of the Fondazione Mediterraneo in Naples, through the large video wall screens, members of the Foundation and international experts participated in the event.
On this occasion, President Michele Capasso re-proposed the APPEAL FOR THE UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD.
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10 April 2021
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Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)
The Fondazione Mediterraneo was invited and participated in the commemorative event for the 160th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Italy and the United States of America, organized by the Embassy of Italy in Washington DC, the Central Europe of the Atlantic Council and the ISPI - Italian Institute of International Political Studies, under the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic.
The virtual celebrations took place between Italy and the United States on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, at 9:00 (ET), 15:00 (CEST). The event featured discussions on the US - Italy partnership and opportunities for future cooperation in the political, economic and scientific fields.
The celebration was followed by an exclusive virtual performance by the “National Symphony Orchestra” at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, with maestro Gianandrea Noseda, world-renowned Italian conductor. With the administration of Joe Biden and Mario Draghi taking office, this anniversary is a pivotal moment in the US-Italy partnership and the broader transatlantic alliance.
The United States and Italy can leverage their strong historical ties to foster international cooperation on global challenges such as Covid-19 relief and economic recovery, among other issues. The event was broadcast on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. On the same day, the Mediterranean Foundation presented the "APPEAL FOR THE UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD".
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07 April 2021
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Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)
The notes contained in the volume distributed on social networks from today and then in the press, are an invitation to reflect on the future of "Naples Metropolitan City": on the need to reform its institutional structure and to outline environmental and urban transformation processes that 'help to leave behind positions in the rankings for quality of life. The data collected are certainly not exhaustive: they are the minimums sufficient to highlight glaring anomalies or contradictions that lead us to suggest how to abandon "the era of unjustified ignorance" and how to outline a suitable institutional and urban reorganization. Again in summary form, they document how precisely in Naples - with the Framework Plan of Equipment (1974/75) - a first organic proposal was formulated on an urban scale of what will then happily be theorized in 2003 in "Five Minutes City" giving rise to principles and to techniques, first of all sporadic, which - from 2017 - begin to spread a little everywhere, from Canada to Australia and also in Europe. In the final pages, first notes of these logics in some and very different areas of the territory of “Naples Metropolitan City.
Volume was edited by “Civilizzare l’urbano - ETS” (with Patrizia Bottaro and Massimo Pica Ciamarra) and by “NA.ME. - Institute for transformations of Naples Metropolitan City” (with Pasquale Belfiore, Alessandro Castagnaro, Ottorino Celano, Massimo Clemente, Annalola Geirola, Massimo Pica Ciamarra, Riccardo Rosi) with contributions by Valerio Barone (institutional aspects), Michele Capasso, Livio De Santoli (energy and sustainability), Paolo Frascani (economic history), Claudio Troisi (infrastructure and mobility) and by Gennaro Russo and Claudio Voto (Italian Institute for the Future / Center for Near Space).
The video edited by Michele Capasso (“Fondazione Mediterraneo”) is titled:“verso Napoli Città Metropolitana” 2021.
