MEDITERRANEAN AWARDS

In 1996, the Fondazione Mediterraneo instituted the Mediterranean Awards (with various categories) that are granted every year to eminent personalities from the worlds of arts and culture, politics and science and social disciplines, whose actions have contributed to reducing tensions, breaking down cultural barriers and developing shared values in the Greater Mediterranean.

This Award is considered one of the most prestigious acknowledgements in the world.

Various events are associated with the Mediterranean Award, such as the “Euro-Mediterranean Concert for Dialogue Among Cultures” and the “Epiphany Concert” (organized by the Cultural Centre “Oltre il Chiostro” in collaboration with the Fondazione Mediterraneo. The latter event is broadcast by RaiUno and Rai International throughout the world every year on the morning of January 6th).

 

 

The Awarding Ceremony of Mediterranean Awards 2004 took place at the Maison de la Méditerranée, Vesuvio Hall. The Mediterranean Award for Science and Research 2004 was delivered to the neapolitan songwriter prof. Marcello Piazza.

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The second edition of “Award Sarajevo”, instituted by the Mediterranean Foundation within the context of the 8th Alpe Adria Cinema Festival – Meetings with the Cinema of Middle-Eastern Europe, completes its “commemorative” phase dedicated to ex Yugoslavia awarding the Prize to the Bosnian poet Izet Sarajic’ and publishing his book “Il libro degli Addii”.

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The Mediterranean Laboratory Foundation of Naples and Alpe Adria Cinema of Trieste instituted, under the presidency of Predrag Matvejevic’, the Prize “Sarajevo, with the aim to acknowledge the work of a Bosnian artist.
In its first edition the Prize has been awarded to Abdulah Sidran, poet and scriptwriter who ranks high in the European literature of our time, thanks to his creative activity in the contemporary literary panorama of Bosnia and ex Yugoslavia.

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During the decennial anniversary of the partnership’s agreements, the Fondazione Mediterraneo awarded the Barcelona Process the "Mediterranean Award for Dialogue between Cultures 2005".
The award has been assigned to the leaders of the 35 national networks of the Anna Lindh Foundation “as a good omen for the engagement these actors must carry out towards the European Union and the 35 Euro-Mediterranean countries” to underline its symbolic meaning.

President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo Michele Capasso stated also – with the leaders’ approval – that starting by next year this session of the prize will be called "Euro-Mediterranean Award for Dialogue between Cultures" and it will be awarded together by the Fondazione and the ALF with a jury made up of all national networks’ members headed by the leaders of Malta, Cyprus and Italy.

The Head of the Palestinian Network, representing all the national networks, thanked President Capasso for this important action that gathers together organizations coming from different cultures and Countries.

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This year, the architecture category makes its debut in the Mediterranean Awards programme. The first winner of this Award is Fabrizio Caròla.
 The Award is presented by the Fondazione Mediterraneo, in collaboration with the Fondazione Annali dell´Architettura e delle Città, a consortium of eight public institutions including the Region of Campania, the Province and the Municipality of Naples, and the Order of Architects and Universities of Campania.
 Several architect were among those who paid tribute to Caròla, including the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture Benedetto Gravagnuolo and the President of the Order of Architects Paolo Pisciotta.

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