THE 30TH YEAR OF THE FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO: PRESIDENT MICHELE CAPASSO RECOGNIZED HONORARY MEMBER

Mercato San Severino | 05 July 2019
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

On the occasion of the thirty-year anniversary of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, the Municipality of Mercato San Severino and the Center for International Studies for Migration "Pascal D’Angelo" have conferred on the president Michele Capasso the nomination of "honorary member" for "high cultural merits".
President Capasso thanked those present and reviewed the main actions of the Foundation illustrating future initiatives in view of 2050.

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AWARDING CEREMONY OF THE MARE NOSTRUM AWARD 2019

Civitavecchia | 01 July 2019
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The awarding ceremony for the 12th Edition of the "Mare Nostrum Award 2019" took place in Civitavecchia, on the "Cruise Roma" ship of the Grimaldi Group.
Created by "Grimaldi Magazine" Mare Nostrum Awards is dedicated to the promotion of the Motorways of the Sea. The objective is to enhance this exceptional opportunity for exchanges, connections and sustainable development for all Mediterranean countries.
The prize pool of the Mare Nostrum Awards amounts, as every year, to 50,000 euros divided between the top five winners that this year are:

• Francisco Alcaide, for the article entitled "Taking the Broad".
• Sarra Belguith, for the article "Women of the sea in Tunisia".
• Giorgios Grigoriadis, for the article "Daniela: the youngest truck driver is only 24 years old".
• Aldo Torchiaro, for the article “The cruise? It is more and more love boat ”.
• Rosa Maria Delli Quadri, for the article "The first motorways of the sea and Mediterranean tourism in the nineteenth century".

The special prize "Cavaliere del Lavoro Guido Grimaldi", established by the Grimaldi family, was recognized to journalist Sergio Luciano, director of the monthly "Economy".
The International Jury of the Award is composed of leading exponents of journalism and culture.
President is Bruno Vespa supported, among others, by Vassiliki Armogeni, Greek journalist of Efoplistis magazine, Michele Capasso, President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, Diana De Feo, RAI journalist, Mimmo Jodice, photographer, Paul Kyprianou, former President of RoRo European Shipowners, Rosalba Giugni, president of Marevivo.
The Secretary of the Award is Luciano Bosso, journalist and director of the magazine Grimaldi Magazine Mare Nostrum.
On this occasion the "Cruise Roma" ship was inaugurated in its extended version and a memorandum of understanding was signed between the ports of Barcelona and Civitavecchia.
The XIIIth edition of the Mare Nostrum Awards will be launched in September 2019 and will end in April 2020.
The related announcement will be available - starting next September - in the offices of the regional Order of journalists and on the sites www.grimaldi.napoli.it and www.grimaldi-lines.com.

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GREAT PARTY FOR THE CRUISE ROME AND FOR THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PORTS OF CIVITAVECCHIA AND BARCELONA

Civitavecchia | 01 July 2019
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

President Michele Capasso took part in the presentation ceremony of the Grimaldi Group's "Cruise Roma" extension work: a true masterpiece of naval engineering.
On this occasion, in the presence of the president of the Emanuele Grimaldi Group, a memorandum of understanding was signed between the port of Barcelona and that of Civitavecchia.

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THE POPE IN NAPLES SPEAKS ABOUT MIGRANTS, PEACE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN

Naples | 21 June 2019
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The president Michele Capasso with Don Giadio De Biasio does not hide the emotion: "To hear the Pope speak of hybridisation, of the theology of the context and of dignity and fraternity leaves a sign because on these themes we have already been confronted 30 years ago and then in the Forum Civil Euromed of Naples (1997), when very few dealt with the Mediterranean. Today Pope Francis confirms that our ideas and our proposals were forerunners of the times. It is significant that precisely from Naples the Pope makes a strong appeal for a theology of welcome based on dialogue and proclamation and that contributes to building a fraternal society among the peoples of the Mediterranean".
The Pope is in Naples for the meeting on "Theology after Veritatis Gaudium in the Mediterranean context", promoted by the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Southern Italy - San Luigi section - Naples.
«How to feed a tolerant and peaceful coexistence that translates into authentic fraternity? How can the acceptance of the other and of those who are different from us prevail in our communities because they belong to a religious and cultural tradition different from ours? How can religions be ways of brotherhood rather than walls of separation? ". From the Posillipo hill overlooking the sea, these questions are intended to act as an incipit in the intervention that Pope Francis addresses to the listeners hidden under white umbrellas to shelter from the heat of the sun of Naples.
The large white stage in the square of a university, that of the headquarters of the Theological Faculty of Southern Italy, conceived as a bottomless box that frames the space of the Mare Nostrum in the distance, the "sea of ​​miscegenation", gives an idea of ​​that which wants to signify today this meeting of the Pope in this context: a door wide open to foster new perspectives of brotherhood between cultures and religions and horizons for a "theological pentecost", a renewal of ecclesiastical studies leading to a theology linked to reality, practice, of welcome, because even "doing theology is an act of mercy". A workshop for the meeting.
To open the work of the Naples conference with Pope Francis was Father Pino Di Luccio, dean of the San Luigi section of the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Southern Italy, greeting the Pontiff. «In the past few months they have asked me how I convinced them to come back and participate in this conference. I think it's a special gift of the Holy Spirit ". 

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