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BIENNALE HABITAT WORLD: HUMAN VALUES AND HUMAN THINKING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REFLECTING ON CHANGES: EMERGING ISSUES AND NEW HORIZONS

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HUMAN VALUES AND HUMAN THINKING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
REFLECTING ON CHANGES: EMERGING ISSUES AND NEW HORIZONS

Webinar Coordinator

Eva Gabriele
Habitat World

Special Guest

Nabil Al Sharif
Executive Director Anna Lindh Foundation
Alexandria, EGYPT

Chairpersons

Clelia De Stefano
Riccardo Marvona
Habitat World

Speakers

Gülsün Saglamer
President European Women Rectors Association (EWORA)
Istanbul – TURKEY

David Abulafia
Professor Emeritus of Mediterranean History in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College
University of Cambridge – UK

Vincente Miguel Garcés Ramón
President Fundaciòn Asamblea De Ciudadanos y Ciudadanas del Mediterràneo (FACM)
Valencia – SPAIN

Linda Tinio-Le Douarin
Coordinator of the International Coalition of Inclusive and Sustainable Cities (ICCAR – UNESCO)
Paris – FRANCE

Carlo Triarico
President of Biodynamic Agricoltural Association (APAB)
Florence – ITALY

Ornella Urpis
Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Trieste
Trieste – ITALY

Marco Angelo Emanuele
Link Campus University
Rome – ITALY

Concluding remarks

Enrico Molinaro
Secretary General, Italian Network for the Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue RIDE-APS, ALF HoN
Rome – ITALY

Message by Ambassador

Enrico Granara
Euro-Med Coordinator, MAECI
(Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation)
Farnesina – Rome

 

 

Ricard and the two shores

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Miguel Àngel Villena. 10.07.2020.

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During the 1980’s the cultural policy of the Valencia’s City Council was based on a defined line named Mediterranean. The creation and the boost of initiatives as the “Mostra de Cine” or the “Trobada de Musica” didn’t answer to any ruler whim or any desire of celebration of the people, but they target the goal of placing the Valencia’s capital as an important city in the Mediterranean environment. Four decades later, some of this projects disappeared during the long populist and conservatory night lead by Rita Barbera, others have been recovered during the last years with Joan Ribo, perhaps with different names, and also new plans which established renovated cultural objectives.

But this strategic bet made during the 1980’s, has been unfortunately dilute by vagueness and indolence. This Mediterranean policy bear the name of Ricard Pérez Casado, mayor of the city during one decade, between 1979 and 1988. Maybe the city, its elites and its neighbours, its political representatives and its social organizations, don’t aspire to a Mediterranean leadership any more. But it’s irrefutable that Pérez Casado remains passionate by the study of a sea which stamps a character to all the natives of its rives. And concerning rives, Ricard just published a clarifying and lucid book, Las desigualdades mediterráneas, reto del siglo XXI (La Catarata) [Inequalities in the Mediterranean, XXI century challenge] which analyses, with a geopolitical focus, the numerous challenges which are facing the people of the northern rive but also and especially the people of the south.

This new intellectual incursion of the ex-mayor in this region proves that the initiatives from the 1980’s weren’t propagandist mannerisms, as some people describe them at this time. On the contrary, it was a preoccupation rooted in a ruler who the next years, held important positions in this geographic area, as UE administrator in the Bosnian city of Mostar, and president of the delegate commission of the European Institute of the Mediterranean. At this point, the last book of Pérez Casado, propelled by the Mediterranean Citizens Assembly Foundation, goes beyond the informative dripping of the migrant dinghies arrivals or the military conflicts in different rives of the sea, to focus him on geography, history, environment and economy, without forgetting the alternatives which he proposes as for the institutions than for the civil society.

This instructive essay has been prepared during several years, either in a loneliness office or a library, but also in the streets of the Mediterranean which have been visited by Ricard during these years. A blending of theory and practice, of read reality and lived experience,  Las desigualdades mediterráneas, reto del siglo XXI offers the tools very useful for every people who desire develop their knowledge of the turbulent waters of our sea. For all these reasons, we have to thank the author, its important effort and highlight its role of writer and ruler. Gregorio Peces-Barba, who died in 2012 and was president of the Spanish congress and rector of the Carlos III University, said that the most important defect of the Spanish rulers was the lack of culture. Obviously nobody could say that about Ricard Pérez Casado.

THE 8th EDITION OF MOSTRA VIVA WILL TAKE PLACE IN COLLABORATION WITH THE PARLIAMENTARIAN ASSEMBLY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN

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Vicent Garcès announce it during the exhibition of the edition 2020 official poster, in the Carme Center’s Chapter house.

The work of Xavier Mestre is a combination of an idyllic Mediterranean picture and the denunciation of the social and cultural problems that are suffering its territories.

This festival will be celebrated between the 1st and the 18th of October with the motto “Mediterranean emergency, the resistance of citizenship”.

This year the Mostra Viva del Mediterrani, which will be the 8th edition of the festival, will be officially support by the Parliamentarian Assembly of the Mediterranean. That has been announced by Vicent Garcés, honorary chairman of the organization, during the presentation of the 2020 edition’s bill, create by the artist born in Alboraia, Xavier Mestre.

The Parliamentarian Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM) is an international forum where representants of parliaments from 29 euro-Mediterranean countries, are debating with the objective of improving the social, economic, and cultural conditions of the citizens, in a peaceful environment made of liberty. For Garcés, “It provides democratic legitimacy to the Mostra Vida and increase the international aspect of the festival”.

The official presentation act gathered a lot of representants of the public and private institutions which collaborate with Mostra Viva del Mediterrani, among which Maite Ibáñez delegate counselor for the cultural action, the education, the youth and the development cooperation at the city council of València; but also the deputy director of the Music and the popular culture of the Valencian Institute of Culture, Maragarita Landete.

Cristina Barbero, the new general coordinator of the organization, did not pass up the change to thank the commitment and the collaboration of institutions as the Octubre center, the MuVIM and the Carme center, which according to its General director, José Luis Pérez Pont “ have always been disposed tout help us since the beginning”.

For her part, Maria Colomer, the president of Mostra Viva del Mediterrani, highlighted the fact that despite the restrictions caused by the covid-19, the meeting “will continue to favorize the public shows” although she admit the existence “of a plan B while waiting the evolutions of the events”. Colomer did not pass up the occasion of highlighting the help of the City council of Valencia, the Generalitat and the MCA Foundation, in addition to the collaboration of the Diputacio de València and the book General sub direction, for the fact that “without them, the celebration of this festival would be impossible; she also deicate a part of her speech to Glòria Tello, counselor of the Heritage et the cultural resources because “her commitment is essential to the progression of Mostra Viva del Mediterrani”.

An idyllic picture, which is not closing the eyes in front of the reality

The artist who realized the poster of the Mostra Viva del Mediterrani’s 8th edition, Xavier Mestre, wanted to explain his work before its exposure. According to its own words: the work has different scales. From one perspective, I wanted to highlight the Mediterranean as an element of unification and cohesion, for this reason, I remove the name of the countries while maintaining the aspect of a map. From another perspective I have been interested in an ancient map dating from the 1930s when the Mediterranean basin was represented with an idyllic vision. But it was necessary to nuance this utopian vision because of the serious social, economic and cultural problems that we cannot lose sight; for this reason, with the ambition of developing this project, I always keep in mind the motto of this edition and I wanted to present a Mediterranean Sea, blurred in the cultural globalization and a lot of circumstances which are, in a way, contaminating the common roots of the Mediterranean territories”.

The motto of Mostra Viva 2020 “Mediterranean emergency, the resistance of citizenship”, according to the Vicent Garcès conclusion speech of the event, refers to “all the conflicts which are suffering several neighboring countries, but also now the sanitarian emergency which we all are suffering and knowing”. The 8th edition of Mostra Viva del Mediterrani will run trough between the 1st and the 18th of October 2020

AJCM FESTIVAL 2020: WEBINARS

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FACM Advisory Council and Governing Board meeting | Solidarity in the Mediterranean in the Post-Covid scenario

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Solidarity in the Mediterranean in the Post-Covid scenario

The FACM’s advisory council and Governing board met on June 12, 2020 electronically to analyze the situation in the region severely hit by the pandemic. Attendees at the meeting, more than twenty experts from fifteen countries in the region considered as priority points putting health and food on the political agenda as common goods that must be protected as rights.

Similarly, the advisory council has analyzed the scope of the region’s social movements calling for social justice. The pandemic has evidenced the importance of returning to local and sustainable production, and the need for solidarity among peoples as the way to overcome this health emergency that produces strong and negative economic, social and political derivatives such as the ever-increasing precariousness and unemployment, especially among women and youth.

The Advisory Council has debated about the theme, the dates and the place where the IX FACM Meeting will be held. We remember that the last Meeting took place in Barcelona, in November 2019, and focused on the situation of youth in the Mediterranean.

Despite the emergency context, the FACM has continued to act as a network for dialogue, proposals and citizen action, as the FACM President, Mr. Vicent Garcés, has pointed out. During the meeting, the message of support from the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (APM) arrived, designating FACM as the only civil society entity with a presence on the Political Commission of this international organization that represents the parliaments of all the countries of the Mediterranean.

Civic commitment of youth in Mediterranean |AJCM 2020

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On 2018 and 2019, we carried out together a nice action, bringing together thousand of  young people around the Mediterranean area on the theme of sustainable development, through the organization of a “pedagogical cleaning” of our coastline involving more or less one hundred associative structures.

Due to the health emergency caused by the Covid-19, this edition looks a little different but just as exciting. Nous vous proposons de la renouveler cette année lasted 3 days as part of a activity on June 6,7 and 8. There will be online talks, music, workshops and  a great dare : a Plogging challenge, the sport that combines exercise with caring for the environment. All the participants will be sending photos that will be published on the different enabled social networks, and at the end of the day, they will report the kilometers traveled. Let’s go as many kilometers as we can through our Mediterranean Sea!

We propose to renew this experience again this year by organizing preparation workshops  − by amplifying the mobilization, − by bringing together / involving more and more local structures and authorities, − by increasing the number of regions and countries represented, − by developing the showcase role of youth initiatives and projects, − by soliciting the participation of citizen media.

The objective remains the same: to illustrate the civic commitment of the youth in the Mediterranean area and to take a new step towards the representation of youth in the Mediterranean area. Sustainable development represents for the Mediterranean area a major social and federating stake, health but also economic around the jobs of tomorrow.

The MCA  Foundation, as every year, collaborate in the initiative of Tetes de l’ art and the AJCM and invites you to participate. If you are interested:

READ THE PROGRAM

SUBSCRIBE HERE

PLOGGING TOOLKIT FOR PARTICIPATION

FACM joins the campaign fot 25th anniversary of the Barcelona process

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FACM joins the campaign for the 25th anniversary of the Barcelona process initiated by the Union for the Mediterranean, with the firm conviction that this commemoration highlights the role of citizenship as a fundamental actor in dialogue, cooperation and to live together in diversity, in periods as convulsive as those we are going through.

Read more about this anniversary

INTERVIEW: RICARD PÉREZ CASADO ON MEDITERRANEAN INEQUALITIES | MEDITERRÁNEO RTVE

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How are the countries of the Mediterranean area experiencing the time confinement of Covid19? Their differences but also their inequalities make the panorama look like a mix, in some places more explosive than in others. Today in RTVE’s program #Mediterráneo : Ricard Pérez Casado, member of Mediterranean Citizens’ Assembly Foundation Advisory Council. His latest book was born in confinement “The Mediterranean inequalities : challenge for the XXI century” (ACM Foundation and Catarata Publishing House)

Report of the 8th MCAF meeting : YOUTH IN THE MEDITERRANEAN | Barcelona 2019

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Report of the 8th meeting of the MCAF
JOVES DE LA MEDITERRÀNIA
LES ASSISES DES JEUNES DE LA MÉDITERRANÉE
YOUTH IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
JÓVENES DEL MEDITERRÁNEO

Durin our 10 years’ experience, we celebrated eight Mediterranean meetings about key themes: “institutions and citizenship in the Mediterranean Sea”, Valencia, Spain, 2010; “Crisis and changes in the Mediterranean”, Tunis, Tunisia, 2011; “The future the citizenship in movement”, Volos, Greece, 2012; “Mediterranean citizenship facing crisis and regional conflicts” Istanbul, Turkey, 2013; “Toward the construction of a Mediterranean people community”, Marseille, France 2014; “Five years of the MCAF: evaluation and future perspectives” Tirana, Albania, 2015; “Necessary conditions and instruments of the citizenship for peace and progress in the Mediterranean” Casablanca, Morroco, 2017.

The last meeting has been celebrated in Barcelona/Spain in November of 2019 and was consecrated to the “Youth in the Mediterranean”. We are glad to share the report of this meeting, in which are gathered the conclusions and recommendations of the four agoras and the contributions of the institutional representants who participate in this meeting.

Those are diagnostics and propositions for the future of the Mediterranean people, from the Mediterranean Youth, based on the knowledge of our region’s reality. We want a common future based on Mediterranean integration, with all its diversity, with our youth, for a Mediterranean in dignity, human and unite.

Read the report

 

14th PAM Executive Report | MCAF President ” The diversity is the very identity of the Mediterranean and must be protected”

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It is already published the Executive Report of the 14th PAM (Parliamentary Assembly of Mediterranean ) Plenary Session, held in Athens on 20-21 February 2020.

Mr. Vicent Garcés , President of the Mediterranean Citizens’ Assembly Foundation (MCAF), intervened in the framework of the 3rd Standing Committee on Dialogue among Civilizations and Human Right. Focused on the geopolitical spectrum of the Mediterranean region, with economic inequalities within countries themselves and between the North and South shores of the Mediterranean. “The root causes of the migration flows need to be solved. The Foundation has members in 20 Mediterranean countries and is now an observer in PAM, trying to exercise the diplomacy of the people for which parliamentary diplomacy is very important. Diplomacy of civil society is the true force and needs a dialogue between citizens taking into account religions or ideologies. This diversity is the very identity of the Mediterranean and must be protected. Our very democracy is at stake and needs to be saved to ensure the EU will not become a walled-in fortress. For the Foundation, the contacts and meetings with the PAM are of great value. We need to increase interaction between cities and regions of the Mediterranean and work together with the PAM and citizens of the region with the EU, Africa and the Council of Europe”.

MCA Foundation was awarded with the 2019 – PAM Prize Laureates Award in recognition of the Foundation’s commitment to dialogue, social cohesion and coexistence in diversity.

 

Read the Executive report 

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