Meetings are places for dialogue between citizens where everyone speaks freely while respecting the rules of mutual listening. They should allow to build a common reflection on the issues and challenges facing the Mediterranean area and define the axes of reflection and action for the future but also deepen the theoretical concepts and themes. They must also allow to enhance the dynamics of the ACM.
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MCA Foundation develops all kinds of projects in three main areas: SOCIAL ACTIONS | ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIONS | CULTURAL ACTIONS | DISSEMINATION ACTIONS
INTERVIEW: Ricard Pérez Casado, ex Mayor of València, member of the MCAF Consultative Council, publish “ Desigualdades mediterráneas, retos del Siglo XXI” copublished by Ed. Catarata and the MCA foundation.
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The MCAF launches the book “Las desigualdades mediterráneas, reto del siglo XXI” written by Ricard Pérez Casado. A work copublished in Spain by the MCA Foundation and the publishing house Catarata. Launched in March.
“Between the totality of human aspirations, one is common to all the societies: the equality and its nonexistence in the majority of the occasions. The age of Enlightement established the equality as one of its greats principles, the monotheist religions promote it in front of a God and the french revolution integrate it into its famous revolutionary triad.
Much of this ideas have their origin in the Mediterranean area, where the inequalities cause and perpetuate a lot of conflicts which damaged their societies. Not only in their territories and countries, but also between the different social classes, about the gender inequalities, the socioeconomic ones, or the derivatives from the religious, the linguistic and the environmental differences. The confluence of inequalities increase the violence of conflicts; It’s the case, for example, the dismantling of the ex-yougoslav repubics. In this essay, Ricard Pérez Casado seed the cultural, social and religious History of both rives of Mediterranean Sea to explain the increasing inequality and the political, economics and environmental conflicts in all the Mediterranean area of the 21th century.”
More informations about the physicals and digitals points of sale: Ed.Catarata
28 citizens circles
20 Mediterranean countries
+ than 70 events organized in 2019
MCAF Strategical actions:
-Being an interlocutor between the euromediterranean institutions and the Mediterranean citizenship.
-Make easier the communication based on equality and inter-generational diversity in all the social, economical, cultural, humanitarian and political fields which affects billions of young people in the Mediterranean countries.
-Contribute to the Mediterranean agenda for the next years and demand that the citizenship be recognized as an essential actor of dialog, the cooperation, the social cohesion, the coexistence in diversity.
Most important actions in 2019:
-Social action: refugees, youth, gender.
-Cultural action: Mediterranean Heritage/ Mostra Viva del Mediterrani.
-Environmental action: SAT project (Territorialized Agri-food Systems). Simultaneous actions to clean up Mediterranean beaches.
-Mediterranean publications.
-Citizen’s Diplomacy.
-Diffusion and vulgarization in french, english and spanish, with texts in arabic and catalan.
-Two international rewards: SLOBODA/LIBERTY prize attribute by the International Center for Peace of Sarajevo, and the the 2019 prize of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM).
Here we share the 2019 FACM’s activities memory which summarizes all our activities of 2019. Take a look clicking on the covers.
2019 MCAF ACTIVITY RAPORT 2019 MACF ACTIVITY SUMMARY
#WeStayAtHome
In front of the sanitarian alert, the MCA Foundation Team chose the remote working following the official advice. We remain at your disposal in our usual communication channels: social networks, e-mail and phone.
We express our gratitude to the healthcare, the alimentary, the cleaners and the transport workers and so many others, together with the entire citizenship, who are making the fight against the pandemic easier.
We share plenty of massages of solidarity by our MCAF Network:
The Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (PAM) message
This year, the euromediterranean region, as a lot of others parts of the world, is facing the COVID 19 with full force, and the northern coast is the current epicentre of the global pandemic. This pandemic is damaging all the aspects of our lives, our health, the limitation of our quotidian actions, the economical and educational constraint. In a such difficult period, the topic choose to think about together for the Mediterranean Day 2020 is: “Solidarity and mutual assistance”.
Read the PAM message
Project : COMMUNICATION AND SELF/ISOLATION- World art day- IAA/ BiH-IPC / SWF-Leonardo da Vinci
Dear friends,
I wish to you and your loved ones to be in good health. I believe in your ability and your capacity to share with the others, in these difficult circumstances, the necessary solidarity. All I can say is in one sentence: Take care of you.
I Hope that we meet again without the social distance between us. In the meantime I share this website página (World Art Day IPC/SWF2020/Leonardo Da Vinci) I and call all the artists to they share trough their social networks (from the 15/03/2020 to the 15/04/2020 to celebrate the World art day), their works/ fictions, short films movies and documentaries, exhibitions, photos, actings, dances and ballets, theatre plays and music/ wisdom, love compassion and solidarity messages to all the people who fight against this auto/isolation.
Ibrahim Spahic director of the SWF and the CIP, honorary member of the MCAF Consultative Council.
PERIPLI
Cara/o iscritta/o
le attività di “Peripli” sono sospese e rinviate nel rispetto delle norme adottate dal governo italiano per prevenire la diffusione del coronavirus.
Vi esortiamo a mantenere la lucidità, ad adottare comportamenti responsabili, e a fare appello alla saggezza.
Ce la faremo e riprenderemo le nostre attività con maggiore motivazione.
Buona salute a tutti!
In this situation which affects the whole of Humanity, an infinitely small virus, invisible to the naked eye but so devastating, and which forces us to confine ourselves in our homes! We are so freedom-loving!
I wish you a lot of courage to face this situation, dear fellow citizens of the Mediterranean! Take good care of yourself!
Hopefully conscientious and human researchers can find an effective treatment and an anti-covid19 vaccine as soon as possible!
Let us stand in solidarity with the most disadvantaged countries which lack of resources risk losing out.
Djamila Hamitou Sandouk from MCA Oran circle
Dear members,
The activities of Zagreb MCA Circle are suspended in accordance with the measures adopted by the Croatian government to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. We call to maintain lucidity, to adopt a responsible behavior: #WeStayAtHome. We will take back our activity with even greater motivation.
#8M Mediterranean Woman International Day trough the eyes of the women. Now and always.
“La mar d ‘il.lustrades” a selection of works from 18 cartoonists and visual artists who present their work trough various styles and profiles, who in group, discover the common elements to understand the visual identity of the mediterranean culture trough the Women eye.
Exposition managed by Tomás Gorria/ Organised by the MCAF and Mostra Viva del Mediterrani 2019/2020
Video of Esther Roig Belloch
The MCAF, as an active member of the ReFAL, take part with another 50 organizations and associations from all the spanish territory, to the annual meeting of the Anna Lindh Foundation spanish network, celebrate the 5th and 6th of march at the headquarters of the Foundation 3 cultures of the Mediterranean in Sevilla.
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The Mediterranean Citizens’ Assembly Foundation and the AVEC- Alliance of Euro-Mediterranean cultural cities- Network sign a cooperative agreement to promote common projects, in particular in the field of Heritage and the Mediterranean citizenship.
The objective of this program is to reinforce the presence of the Civil society actors in the Heritage and culture sectors, amateurs and experts, from all the Mediterranean basin. It will create the conditions to lead an action in the field in order to restore and reinvigorate the Heritage of the different Mediterranean countries. In a Knowledge-transfer society, the institutions traditionally responsible of this mission are no long exclusive in this field, and sometimes, are not able to pursuit this mission. In this case, it´s essential that the Civil society take over this theme.
One of the main objectives of this program is to start and support a project which includes, in the next years, territorial meetings in different Mediterranean countries where the question of cultural actors is approached, and actions with the objective of promoting the Mediterranean Citizenship.
These transversal regards between citizens, political leaders and professionals (curators, researchers, cultural mediators) will enable the implementation of local workshops, for the purpose of:
-Redefine the Heritage value of “objects” – Alive and actives material or immaterial- and the spaces of valorisation for the heritage, identify the Mediterranean “cultural landscape”.
-Draw attention to the citizen’s initiatives, to promote the identification of the significant heritage, the collect of the collective local memory, their valorisation in a dynamic which integrate them in the construction of a better quality of life, and in the construction of a societal project for the future.
-Encourage the merger between the professionals using the local institutions and proposing the expertise of the AVEC’s and FACM’s members.
-Mobilize the decisions-makers to make possible the realisation of these actions, according to the diversity of the forms of citizen’s participation, and the diversity of the projects which objective is reach this participation.
This project follows on the international meeting: Mediterranean Heritage and citizenship: destruction, rebuilding, preservation of memories and citizen’s participation, that the FACM in collaboration with the association Peripli and the circle of Naples organised in Naples in October of 2019. This symposium intended promote a critical reflexion but also design a guidance perspective to rebuild the Heritage of the different spaces in the Mediterranean Sea, under the assumption that in a Knowledge-transfer Society, the institutions traditionally responsible of this mission (schools, universities, libraries, etc…) are no long exclusive in this field, and, often, for different reasons, they fail in their specific mission. The next edition will be held in Larissa (Greece) in october, 2020.
The agreement with the AVEC, has been signed in Malta, coinciding with the General Assembly of the Network, which gathered cities and territorial collectivities of the Euro-Mediterranean space, operators chosen and working for these institutions, research and study organisations, from historical territories, owners of an important Heritage with the aim to use this Heritage as a vector of local and sustainable development.
PRESIDENT OF THE MEDITERRANEAN CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY FOUNDATION (FACM) ADDRESSING DURING THE 14th SEESION OF THE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY OF MEDITERRANEAN (PAM)
ATHENS, 19-20th February 2020
The PAM is a public institution which gathers parliamentarians from all the Mediterranean basin, and which practices the parliamentarian diplomacy. The FACM is an observer member of the PAM.
The speech of Vicent Garcés, the FACM’s president, takes place during the 3rd Permanent Committee of the PAM on Dialogue of civilizations and Human Rights, in which the Foundation ACM received the PAM 2019 Prize.
Dear parliamentarians,
The Mediterranean is facing a global emergency knowed as “Mediterranean emergency”. This crisis is illustrated in several dimensions:
This Mediterranean emergency is aggravated by the presence of old and new powers which takes place with different methods and whose most extreme illustration is the war, armed conflicts, in the region and the adjacent zones.
The first step started since the year 2010/2011, the phenomena that we named Arab Springs with different destinies in each country. The second step is currently happening. The citizens from Algiers to Beyrouth keeps going on demanding liberty, dignity and social justice. In the European zone, similar citizen’s revolts happened in Spain, France and Italy.
In this context of Mediterranean emergency and citizen’s revolt, the FACM, with its 10 years of live practicing the citizen’s diplomacy, has built a network composed by 28 citizen circles in 28 cities and 20 countries. The FACM has organized 8 thematic meetings in different countries. The last one, celebrated in November 2019, broached The Mediterranean Youth and the PAM took part at the event. The PAM also sponsored the meeting which broaches Heritage and citizenship in the Mediterranean Sea. This meeting was organized by the FACM in Naples in October 2018.
We should recall that the FACM’s objective is to build a community of Mediterranean peoples. The FACM and the PAM develop their activities in a period of danger for the freedom and democracy, the Human Rights. The confidence crisis from the citizens to their institutions coincides with the increases of Far-Right movements which promote xenophobia, racism and authoritarian answers to the crisis.
The FACM declares that we cannot fight against this danger transforming the European Union in a fortress, building more walls. We need to progress in the indispensable political and economic changes, answering to the citizen demands. It’s also necessary to increase the cooperation and integration of the Mediterranean peoples.
In this process change, the FACM and the PAM have a lot of common points and cooperation themes. I engage me to propose that we increase these relationship and synergy to federate the Mediterranean cities and regions. Gathering the parliamentary diplomacy (PAM), the citizen’s diplomacy (FACM), and the local diplomacy (cities and regions).
Thank you very much.
The Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (PAM) has decided to award its 2019 Annual Prize to the Mediterranean Citizens’ Assembly Foundation (FACM) coinciding with their 10 years of collaboration. The PAM brings together representatives of the Parliaments of all the mediterranean countries. MCA Foundation is a PAM observer member.
The PAM has highlighted the close collaboration with the MCAF, with the shared objective of moving towards a community of Mediterranean peoples, promoting democratic values of freedom, peace and respect for cultural diversity and environmental responsibility. The PAM has remarked that civil society plays a crucial role in the region for dialogue, cooperation, social cohesion and coexistence in diversity.
The awards ceremony has been held in Athens, on Friday, February 21, 2020, in the framework of the 14th PAM Plenary Session held in the Parliament of Greece, with the assistance of parliamentary representations from all Mediterranean countries .
The MCAF president, Vicent Garcés, who has received the award, said that “it is not possible to integrate the peoples of the Mediterranean without the conscious commitment of the citizens of the Mediterranean.” The MCA Foundation is celebrating 10 years of existence these days.
The MCA Foundation has just held a few weeks ago a meeting in Barcelona on Youth in the Mediterranean in which a representation of the PAM has participated. Youth has become the vanguard and engine of change for the democratization of political systems and economic changes to improve the living conditions of citizens.
“The PAM Prize to the MCA Foundation has the special meaning of being delivered from a network of parliamentary institutions to a Mediterranean network of civil society that promotes the firm message of: DON’T FORGET THE CITIZENSHIP,” said the president of the MCA Foundation.
More information at: https://www.pam.int/
The Mediterranean Citizens’ Assembly Foundaiton (FACM) has received on February 8 in Sarajevo / Bosnia-Herzegovina the traditional prize “Sloboda” / Freedom granted every year by the International Center for Peace in the framework of the International Sarajevo Winter Festival «Sarajevska zima». This recognition is aimed to highlight the contribution of institutions, entities and individuals to the defense of freedoms and human rights. The prize
was awarded to the president of the MCAF , Vicent Garcés, together with outstanding bosnian and international figures from the academic, cultural and civil society from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
During the ceremony, Mr. Garcés said that the MCA Foundation is a citizen network «whose raison d’être is to facilitate dialogue, knowledge and mutual respect within the framework of the diversity of the peoples of the Mediterranean. From Sarajevo, a symbolic city for the courage of its citizens, and that has given us recognition that bears the name FREEDOM, we launch a call for not giving up in the continuous struggle for peace and freedom, building trust in the other, in the different, for a common life in the culture of diversity ». Coinciding with this special award, the MCA Foundation held a meeting of the MCA circles in the region, with the participation of Thessaly / Greece, Podgorica / Montenegro, Zagreb / Croatia, Tirana / Albania and Sarajevo. An initiative that aims to unite the MCAF citizen network oby promoting synergy between neighboring circles towards a community of Mediterranean peoples.
MCA Foundation, on this occasion and within the framework of the XXXVI Edition of the Sarajevo Winter Festival, has presented an exhibition of works by 18 female illustrators and visual artists from the Mediterranean basin under the name “La mar d’il.lustrades”. This exhibition, curated by Tomás Gorria, was exhibited for the first time in the 2019 edition of the Mostra Viva del Mediterrani (MVM) Festival in Valencia. And it has had the collaboration of the MCA Circle of Sarajevo, the Sarajevo Winter Festival, the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Atelier Memorial Alija Kucukalic Foundation and Valencia World Capital Design 2022, as an award-winning association with the Pont del Mediterrani 2019 of Mostra Viva del Mediterrani.
Elma Hodzic, curator of the Museum of the History of Bosnia and Herzegovina where is exhibited, defines it as “a journey through different expressions and artistic styles around the diversity of identities and territories of the Mediterranean region.” The exhibition, “dotted with diversity, highlights the points of contact between diverse cultures and identities, showing the crosses that erase the boundaries of geographical and political maps.”
The participating artists in the exhibition are: Aicha Abouhaj (Morocco), María Chiara Banchini (Italy), Zeineb Ben Haouala (Tunisia), Diala Brisi (Syria), Florence Bouchain (France), Daphne Christoforou (Cyprus), Ana Hoxha (Albania ), Tea Jurišić (Croatia), Sonya Korshenboym (Israel), Lejla Kučukalić (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Virginia Lorente (Spain), Irena Milačić (Montenegro), Theda Mimilaki (Greece), Deena Mohamed (Egypt), Samara Rana (Palestine) ), Vesna Skornsek (Slovenia), Büşra Üzgün (Turkey) and Maya Zankoul (Lebanon).
