Maison de la Paix || Casa Universale delle Culture (EN)

 

 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.

 

II FORUM ABOUT EUROPEAN CIVIL SOCIETY – SOUTHERN NEIGHBOURHOOD.

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Bruxelles | 28 May 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

Co-hosted by the Committee of the Regions (CoR), the European External Action Service (EEAS), the European Commission (DG DEVCO and DG NEAR) and the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), the "Second Southern Neighbourhood Civil Society Forum" will take place in Brussels on 28-29 May 2015.

The Forum is part of a larger initiative launched by the Commission in 2013 to create a mechanism for sustained dialogue between civil society, the EU and authorities – including regional and local authorities – in the Middle East and North Africa region, and the main topics on the agenda of this second edition will be the review of the European Neighbourhood Policy and civil society's role in de-radicalisation efforts. High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini, European Parliament President Martin Schulz and Commissioner Johannes Hahn, together with the co-Presidents of ARLEM, will be among the high level speakers addressing the Forum.

The Fondazione Mediterraneo joined the Forum as a sign of the twentyfive years dedicated to the dialogue about Civil Society since the Barcellona Forum of 1995 until that one of Naples 2014.

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THE JURY OF PREMIO GRIMALDI IN NAPLES

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Napoli | 28 May 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The Jury of "Grimaldi Mare Nostrum Award" took place, as usual, in Naples. The international jury, lead by the writer and director Folco Quilici, rewarded the poems about the sea written by Piero Ottone, the compositions of Cesar Urrutia who forecasts the modification of the road transport which will use alternative ways and the sustainable proposals made by Carlo Alessandro Argenzio and Giuseppe Speranza, and rewarded also Rossend Domenech and Alessandro Sansoni which analyzed the geopolitical role of Italy in Mare Nostrum, becoming aware of the necessity of a plan of investments, mostly in the portual sphere.

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BAKU 2015 – FIRST EDITION OF EUROPEAN GAMES

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Baku | 25 May 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The first edition of the European Games will take place in Baku from 12 to 18 June 2015, with the presence of athletes from various European countries.
The United States of the World supports this event, aware that sport is an essential pillar in intercultural and interreligious dialogue and contributes to supporting and strengthening peace among peoples.
Secretary General Michele Capasso, who was present in Baku with other members of the international institution, presented the title of "Standard Bearers of the United States of the World" to all the young people from Azerbaijan who are involved in organising the event and promoting the values of sport and human brotherhood.

 

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MUNICIPIO SQUARE: TWO ARCHITECTS, TWO STORIES

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Napoli | 23 May 2015
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In the occasion of the opening ceremony of Metropolitan Station of Municipio Square, after 15 years of works, two architects and friends met up: Alvaro Siza e Michele Capasso. The first has the occasion to see finished (almost) his artwork: a complex and interesting challenge between past and future. The second, after 25 years of struggle for peace and dialogue, can attend to the work for multimedia reallocation of MAMT, which has its entrance in Municipio Square and which from this square will tell and  moved the audience in a travel to the Mediterranean. Two stories, two friends linked by mutual respect and the belief that only  a serious engagement and real knowledge could be the antidote for lack of morals and the banality of our days.

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OPENING CEREMONY OF MUNICIPIO SQUARE METRO STATION

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Napoli | 23 May 2015
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The Line 1 of Municipio Square Metro Station – projected by the Portoguese architects Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura - was inaugurated by the ministry for transportation Graziano Delrio and by the mayor Luigi De Magistris. This is the 17˚metro station of linea 1, the project of which started in December 1976. «We are supporters of railway transportation» said Delrio to the mayor announcing a meeting in order to «make the agenda about works».
«We need to improve public transportation in order to decrease the urban mobility» added.
«The metro of Naples is an important national artwork – said De Magistris – and is the result of an important cooperation with the Government. The municipality really supported this project and helped in order to obtain the grants for the completion of the line and the completion of line 6, which has a strategic relevance. When a journalist questioned about the works which started 40 years ago, De Magistris replied saying “ We gave an acceleration and catched up the inactivity».
«Since September – as was stated by the regional assessor of Transportation Sergio Vetrella – the regularity of the trains, for which the Region allocate 78 millions, will be around 8 minutes, and since 2016, with the arrival of new trains, every 4-5 minutes». The expenses for the construction of Station Municipio – according to what was stated by the President of «Società Metropolitana di Napoli», Gian Egidio Silva, which is the director since 1995 – stands at 1 million and 700 million of Euro.
«We will reach the sum of 3 million», added Silva. When questions were asked about the total costs of work and the cost for km, Silva said wasn’t able at the moment to give some data. The line 1 covers little more than 20 km. In order to realise the first 13, 5 km 34 years passed for a cost of 1 miliard and 400 milion of Italian liras for km.
The metro will run since the 2th of June.
In the occasion, as stated by De Magistris will be showed a commemorative stone for Salvatore Renna, a workmen of 41 years old who lost his life after a fall in the construction site of Metro on date 20 September 2014.
The president Michele Capasso remembered the friendship with Alvaro Siza and 15 years–and also the works of reallocation of Fondazione and MAMT museum which start today in order to render Municipio Square, Metro and MAMT something unique in its genre and an heritage of humanity.

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