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).

 

 

MUSTAPHA BAKKOURY - 2018
President of the Moroccan Agency of Solar Energy, MOROCCO

The award was assigned Mustapha Bakouri for his efforts on renewable energy and sustainable development. As president of the Casablanca-Settat Region and of the Moroccan Agency of Solar Energy, he is committed in protecting the environment and developing energy everyday, while respecting the ecosystem and the quality of life.
Its revolutionary aim to transform Morocco into one of the most energetic countries from an energy point of view has allowed the enhancement of large energy basins, setting itself as an example worldwide.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 03 May 2018

TOM FOX - 2013
American Environmentalist

The Environmentalist American Tom Fox, the "guru" who has turned the water front of New York, received from the hands of the President and the Mayor of Naples Capasso De Magistris the "Mediterranean Prize for 2013 to the environment."
The ceremony was held at St James's Palace.

 

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 9 November 2013

Greenpeace International - 2012

For relentless commitment to an energy revolution that will face the challenges of climate change, for the defence of our oceans and the protection of the last remaining primary forests on the planet (together with the animals, plants and populations that are dependent on them), for dedication to the cause  disarmament and peace by confronting the causes of conflict and demanding the elimination of all nuclear arms, for commitment to the creation of a future free of toxic substances as well as the promotion of sustainable agriculture.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 06 January 2012

REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER - 2011
HUNGARY

For unrelenting commitment –through 16 offices in Euro-Mediterranean countries  – in the management and sustainable use of natural resources and the implementation of partnerships among local actors for eco-sustainable development of the region.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 20 may 2011

National Park  of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise - 2010
ITALY

On the occasion of EUROPARC 2010 at Pescasseroli – an event which brought together representatives of the Parks of European Countries and for the inauguration of the “TOTEM FOR PEACE”, the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise was awarded the “Angelo Vassallo” Mediterranean Award for Environment and Co-Development for its actions aiming at protecting the environment and nature.

Awards Ceremony
Pescasseroli, 29 September 2010

Folco Quilici - 2009
Film Director, writer
ITALY

For his commitment to safeguarding the environment and promoting co-development as well as his important work in disseminating the culture of the sea. An example for future generations and a didactic educational tool to be transmitted to all coastal countries of the Mediterranean in order to disseminate the values of the love for the sea and the protection of its habitat.

Awards Ceremony
Naples, 19 February 2009

ENI - 2013
ITALIA

Impresa integrata nell’energia, impegnata a crescere nell’attività di ricerca, produzione, trasporto, trasformazione e commercializzazione di petrolio e gas naturale, ha una storia radicata nel Mediterraneo.
Tutti gli uomini e le donne di Eni, nel passato ed oggi, hanno una passione per le sfide, per il miglioramento continuo, per l’eccellenza: il loro valore fondamentale è verso la persona, l’ambiente e l’integrità.
Per questi motivi viene conferito il “Premio Mediterraneo Energia e Sviluppo Sostenibile”.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 04 January 2013

MedReg - 2012

Organismo associativo ed istituzionale che è fortemente impegnato nella promozione della cooperazione tra le Autorità Nazionali di Regolazione dell'Energia del Mediterraneo, contribuendo così a sostenere efficacemente i processi di integrazione energetica, economica e sociale tra i Paesi del Bacino e dei Continenti cui appartengono.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 06 January 2012

Stefania Prestigiacomo - 2010
Minister of Environment and Protection of Territory and Sea, ITALY

For her action in favour of the protection of Environment and Territory not only in Italy, but also in the whole Mediterranean. With her French homologue, she has undertaken the institution of a protected sea area off the Strait of Bonifacio.

Awarding Ceremony
Gaeta, 15 April 2010

 

 

Israeli and Palestinian Mothers - 2014
ISRAEL - PALESTINE

This award, proposed by Monsignor Fouad Twal, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, is granted to Israeli and Palestinian mothers who lost one or more members of their family because of the ongoing war and do not seek revenge, wishing to commit themselves for peace and a better future.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 29 october 2014

Organisation Nationale de l'Enfance Tunisienne - 2013
TUNISIA

Fondata il 21 maggio 1948 l’Organisation Nationale de l’Enfance Tunisienne ha consentito a migliaia di ragazzi tunisini, specialmente appartenenti a famiglie povere, di beneficiare di sostegno e di attività ricreative durante tutto l’anno.
Iniziatrice di Consigli Municipali per l’Infanzia e promotrice dll’istituzione del Parlamento dell’Infanzia in Tunisia l’ONET ha tessuto legami di amicizia con varie associazioni per l’infanzia, la gioventù e la cultura di Paesi mediterranei ed europei.
Membro del Consiglio economico e sociale delle Nazioni Unite l’ONET difende i diritti dell’infanzia nell’ambito delle istanze nazionali ed internazionali.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 04 January 2013

 

H.R.H. Princess Lalla Meryem - 2011
President of the Hassan II, Foundation,
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, MOROCCO

For her action in defence of children’s rights and, in general, for her commitment in favour of abandoned children. President of the Observatoire National des Droits de l’Enfant (ONDE) and reference point for UNICEF both in Morocco and across the World, she has made every effort for children’s education, saying that “it is not quite important which kind of world we are leaving to our children, but rather which children we are leaving to this world”.

Awarding Ceremony
Rabat, 8 December 2011

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD FOR ART AND CREATIVITY
RICHARD GALLIANO
Musician, FRANCE

For his great originality synthesising different musical experiences in a new interpretative key, made of improvisation and Mediterranean tradition, allowing the accordion to play as a protagonist in contemporary jazz.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 4 January 2008

 

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD FOR PEACE
CARMINE NARDONE
President of Provincia di Benevento, ITALY

For his political and scientific action in favour of Peace, which made possible the elevation of the territory of Benevento into a centre of excellence in the Euro-Mediterranean sphere. Through the creation of an international school of environmental diagnostics, he realised a real laboratory of peace in which youth coming from 30 Countries of the Great Mediterranean met in a new dimension of advanced technologies in which the satellite services from space attend upon humanity.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 4 January 2008

 

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD FOR SOCIAL SOLIDARITY
Canteen "MADRE TERESA DI CALCUTTA"
Associatione of Social Solidarity, ITALY

For its role as a careful witness of the Phlegrean region’ s deepseated discomforts as well as for its constant activity of support and care, inspired by the noblest principles of charity and universal love.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 4 January 2008

 

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD FOR CULTURE
WASSYLA TAMZALI
Writer, ALGERIA

For her cultural work which testifies the liberation war in Algeria through the painful events of its protagonists. For expressing, with her work, the multiple dimensions and contradictions of the South Shore, suffering victim of the colonial age and of the unexpected post-colonial drifts which attempt on individual liberties and rights, undermining the principles of freedom whereof the Euro-Mediterranean culture is a proud protagonist and witness. For giving voice to abuses of power which women are victims in all patriarchal and sexist cultures of the Mediterranean.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 19 February 2009

 

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD FOR MEDIA
IL DENARO
Newspaper, ITALY

For its role of constant involvement in economic political and cultural information in the Euro-Mediterranean context. Media partner of the association Europa Mediterranea, through special pages and in collaboration with the main press agencies – such as Ansamed – Il Denaro has become a leader as to the events occurring in the Greater Mediterranean, embodying the values of discussion, dialogue and interaction among cultures. By its action, it contributed to make Naples a nodal Euro-Mediterranean reference centre, by disseminating – with objectivity and precision – news and through reportages about the Countries of the Euro-Mediterranean region.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 19 February 2009

 

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD FOR ISTITUTIONS
NICOLAS SARKOZY
President of the French Republic, FRANCE

For his project of the Union for the Mediterranean. This action, pertaining to all the Countries converging on the Mediterranean and equally settled like the European Union, could be an initiative able to transform in a radical manner the inter-Mediterranean relationships. If politically there are not sufficient precedents, this idea has behind a thousand-year history of convergence expressed by the wide synthesis that succeeded in the Mediterranean. To give to this history a political conclusion is a big vision to which we cannot renounce.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 28 June 2010

 

 

EUROMED AWARD
RIMA MAROUN
Photographer, LEBANON

The theme chosen by the Jury is “Dialogue through Art” and the Award has been granted to the Lebanese photographer Rima Maroun because she communicates, through her works, a message of peace and coexistence.

 

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 26 September 2008

 

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD FOR SCIENCE AND RESEARCH
ANTONIO IAVARONE
Scientist and Associate professor at the Institute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University, New York, ITALY

He contributed to the fundamental research on the function of several proteins of the “ld” family in the stem cells and in cancer pathologies increasing the possibilities of cure especially for some typical pathologies of the South Shore of the Mediterranean. From the scientific point of view, it is a high value discovery which opens the possibility to re-program, among others, the nervous cells as a basis for the treatment of serious illnesses.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 5 November 2008

 

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD FOR DIPLOMACY
MASSIMO D'ALEMA
Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, ITALY

For his role in the UN Council concluded with the declaration against death sentences and for placing Italy, with the actions in Lebanon and other Countries, in the board of European interventions to establish peace in the Mediterranean and in the World. Thanks to his political action, Italian foreign policy regained credibility and respect in international field giving back to Italy an important role.

 

 

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD FOR SCIENCE AND RESEARCH
RUGGERO MARIA SANTILLI
Scientist and Researcher, ITALY

The power of dialogue among different cultures and various sciences forges the protagonists of history. With this award we thank Ruggero Maria Santilli, samnite by origin, Italian‑American by education, flatly Mediterranean by soul, for his theoretic contribution to the new sciences and for his work through mathematics, physics and chemistry leading to the extraordinary postulates for the development of new technologies that allow an useful and sustainable development.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 22 January 2009

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD FOR CULTURE
CARMEN ROMERO
President of Circúlo Mediterraneo, SPAIN

She is the founder of the Circúlo Mediterraneo and this award wants to pay tribute to her actions in promoting integration among politics, culture and civil society in the Mediterranean area. Her action strengthens the initiatives in favour of the respect of human rights and gender equality.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 16 February 2009

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD FOR SOCIAL SOLIDARITY
"L'ALTRA NAPOLI" Onlus
Association of Social Solidarity, ITALY

Fondazione Mediterraneo assigned the Mediterranean Award for Social Solidarity 2009 to the Neapolitan association L’Altra Napoli Onlus for its stimulating role in the civil progress of the Neapolitan society, looking at the areas of social unease trying to overcome the dependency culture, promoting concrete models of solution and government in those areas.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 19 February 2009

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD FOR ART AND CREATIVITY
PINO CACOZZA
Actor, Musician, ITALY

Pino Cacozza has given expression to the collective consciousness of the Arbëreshe people. In his wide production of poems and songs he brings back to mind the latent memories of a community which is socially and politically melted into the Italian nation but is still preserving its historical and linguistic tradition. He prefers squares rather than theatres and in his performances he uses verses and music to exalt a whole people, renewing its roots, reinforcing its feeling of unity and swaying the audience in a choral brotherly dance at the end of the show.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 19 February 2009

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD FOR ENVIRONMENT AND CO-DEVELOPMENT
FOLCO QUILICI
Film Director, writer, ITALY

For his commitment to safeguard environment and promote codevelopment as well as for his important work in spreading the culture of the sea. An example for new generations and a didactic‑educational tool to be transmitted to all coastal Countries of the Mediterranean in order to spread the love for the sea and for the protection of its habitat.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 19 February 2009

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD FOR PEACE
MAHMOUD DARWICH
Palestinian Poet, PALESTINE

Commonly considered as “the Poet of Peace”, “the Poet of the Palestinian cause” or of the Palestinian Resistance, Mahmoud Darwich avoided the slenderness of the thematic field offered by resistance poetry, transforming little by little the familiar objects of his lost land into myths, treating Palestine like a metaphor of the human condition. His poetry, already mightily lyrical, lives on an epic inspiration, dispensed essentially through a bright evocation of figures of speech or mythical figures drawn from all cultures. The clever work on the images and the incisive wording, allow Mahmoud Darwich to give back to himself and to Palestine the identity stolen with the promise of peace. His poetry develops, above all, a profound and painful thought on memory, on exile in all its dimensions, and digs deeply in the heart of rejection, of otherness and of death. Substitute of the confiscated native land, the writing is claimed as a principle of existence and even more as “out-life”. Poetry at this stage acquires completely his sense of dwell (bayt). Mahmoud Darwich, with his poetry, promoted peace in the world and in the Euro-Mediterranean area.

Awarding Ceremony
Gaeta, 27 March 2009

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD FOR CULTURE
STUDENTS OF GAZA
PALESTINE

In the city of Gaza, caught in the grip of an inexorable paralysis, living in poverty with little livelihood, among endless problems, young people don’t give way to despondency and desolation but look for everything that may enlighten and feed their mind. They are self-educated, they exchange information and educational tools and transcribe any uplifting or useful reading accessible to one of them, supporting each other spurred by that human ambition described as “seguir virtute e canoscenza” in Dante’s words. This prize aims to remember them to the world that has left them alone, even ignoring the UN declarations, and hides this action of abandon behind the ambiguous language highlighted by Joris Luyendijk in “Almost human. Images from the Near East”, of 2006.

Awarding Ceremony
Gaeta, 27 March 2009

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD "MEDAL OF HONOUR"
FAUSTO e MARION MARCHI
ITALY

The Inauguration and Launching Ceremony of the boat Megaride – Grande Mediterraneo, donated to the Fondazione Mediterraneo by Fausto and Marion Marchi, took place within the Yacht Med Festival event. As a mark of gratitude they received the Medal of Honour of the Mediterranean Award. The Boat represents Mediterranean Countries and has been recognized not only by the countries overlooking the Basin but also by International Institutions such as the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly and the United Nations.

Awarding Ceremony
Gaeta, 27 March 2009

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD "MEDAL OF HONOUR"
CONSORMARE DEL GOLFO
Centro Servizi per l'Economia del Mare, ITALY

The Inauguration and Launching Ceremony of the boat Megaride – Grande Mediterraneo, donated to the Fondazione Mediterraneo by Fausto and Marion Marchi, took place within the Yacht Med Festival event. The Boat, restored by Consormare del Golfo represents Mediterranean Countries and has been recognized by International Institutions. Fondazione Mediterraneo awarded Consormare del Golfo with the Medal of Honour for the renewal of the Boat.

Awarding Ceremony
Gaeta, 27 March 2009

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD "MEDAL OF HONOUR"
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF LATINA
President Vincenzo Zottola, ITALY

The Inauguration and Launching Ceremony of the boat Megaride – Grande Mediterraneo, donated to the Fondazione Mediterraneo by Fausto and Marion Marchi, took place within the “Yacht Med Festival” event. The Boat, restored by Consormare del Golfo represents Mediterranean Countries and has been recognized not only by the Countries overlooking the Basin but also by International Institutions such as the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, the United Nations and others. The initiative was realized thanks to the sensibility of the President Vincenzo Zottola. For this reason the Fondazione Mediterraneo attributed to Vincenzo Zottola the Medal of Honour 2009.

Awarding Ceremony
Gaeta, 27 March 2009

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD "MEDAL OF HONOUR"
SCUOLA NAUTICA GUARDIA DI FINANZA DI GAETA
Scuola Nautia, ITALY

The Inauguration and Launching Ceremony of the boat Megaride – Grande Mediterraneo, donated to the Fondazione Mediterraneo by Fausto and Marion Marchi, took place within the “Yacht Med Festival” event. This initiative is supported by the Scuola Nautica Guardia di Finanza of Gaeta which was awarded with the Medal of Honour.

Awarding Ceremony
Gaeta, 27 March 2009

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD "MEDAL OF HONOUR"
ISTITUTO NAUTICO CABOTO
Istituto Nautico, ITALY

The Inauguration and Launching Ceremony of the boat Megaride – Grande Mediterraneo, donated to the Fondazione Mediterraneo by Fausto and Marion Marchi, took place within the “Yacht Med Festival” event. This initiative is supported by the Istituto Nautico Caboto which was awarded with the Medal of Honour.

Awarding Ceremony
Gaeta, 27 March 2009

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD SPECIAL EDITION
FES FESTIVAL OF WORLD SACRED MUSIC
President Mohammed Kabbaj, MOROCCO

The Fez Festival of World Sacred Music represents one of the most important events in the world for the promotion of dialogue among different societies, cultures and religions. Thanks to the work of Mohammed Kabbaj it is an instrument for the construction of development and peace through the creation of a great coalition of shared values and interests.

Awarding Ceremony
Fès, 27 May 2009

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD "SILVER DOLPHIN"
to the memory of AHMED JEBLI
President of the University Cadi Ayyad of Marrakech, MOROCCO

History has known more than one person who, though without media renown, have played an extraordinary role in the events that mark the life of a State. Ahmed Jebli belongs to this gallery, for the contribution given to the promotion of knowledge and culture, especially in the academic field. The themes he envisaged have a high vision of education, always overcoming the borders of class and belonging. Ahmed Jebli‘s action falls within this framework, always aiming at understanding the reasons “of the other” and at developing friendship among the peoples of the Mediterranean. He was a reference point for the Fondazione Mediterraneo that wishes to pay a tribute to him by this acknowledgement.

Awarding Ceremony
Marrakech, 4 June 2009

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD FOR ISTITUTIONS
ANIBAL CAVACO SILVA
President of the Republic of Portugal, PORTUGAL

Continuing the great tradition of his Country, the President Aníbal Cavaco Silva always committed himself to reinforce solidarity and a proactive co-operation among all the Countries of the Mediterranean, to pursue development and to promote peace in the region.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 12 June 2009

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD FOR CINEMA
LAURA MORANTE
Actress, ITALY

Versatile and professional actress. She worked with young and famous directors in many Mediterranean Countries: from Italy to France to the Iberian Peninsula, crossing all kinds of movies, from thriller to comedy, always with outstanding results thanks to her personality and her innate artistic gift.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 12 June 2009

 

EUROMED AWARD
COMBATANTS FOR PEACE
ISRAEL - PALESTINE

Combatants for Peace è un movimento israelo-palestinese che, tramite la non violenza e il dialogo, punta alla riconciliazione nelle due comunità, con l'obiettivo della soluzione dei due Stati.

 

Awarding Ceremony
Stoccolma, 21 September 2009

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD FOR DIPLOMACY
URSULA PLASSNIK
Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, AUSTRIA

The Prize was awarded to the Minister Plassnik for her contribution in the promotion of the Euro-Arab dialogue through diplomatic initiatives able to build a coalition of shared values and interests with the full involvement of the Civil Society.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 12 April 2010

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD FOR ARCHITECTURE
ALVARO SIZA
Architect, PORTUGAL

He carried out an incisive and professional work in the architectural field and in his relation with the social and human capital of towns. His works are permeated with “Mediterraneanty” and combine the culture of architecture with rigour and technique, always respecting the memory, the use of places and the needs of individuals.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 13 June 2010

 

MEDITERRANEAN AWARD FOR MEDIA
EL PAIS
Newspaper, SPAIN

El Pais is a newspaper animated by political, human and social passions and it is involved, since its birth, in reporting global news. Spreading information and comments, especially on the Euro‑Mediterranean region, El Pais goes beyond the facts, searching for their causes and effects.

Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 13 June 2010