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MCA FOUNDATION INTERVENES IN THE EUROMEDSUMMIT 2019 OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE (EESC)

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VICENT GARCÉS: “The” citizen diplomacy “as a factor of peace and understanding among the Mediterranean peoples”

The MCA Foundation has attended the Euro-Mediterranean Summit of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions that took place on October 22-23, 2019 in Barcelona with the aim to promote a greater understanding of the main problems affecting organized civil society in the Euromed region and to discuss the common challenges they face. The Summit has brought together 120 participants from a series of economic and social councils, or similar institutions, trade unions, other economic and social interest groups and NGOs from member countries of the Union for the Mediterranean that have addressed key issues such as training, migrations, digitalization and whose treatment has been done from a double perspective: the Mediterranean, which facilitates regional cooperation, and the second, global governance, which has to do with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.

In his addressing to the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), the President of the Mediterranean Citizens Assembly Foundation (FACM), Vicent Garcés, highlighted “citizen diplomacy” as a factor of peace and understanding among the Mediterranean peoples. He has also expressed that the fight against social and economic inequalities in the Mediterranean has to be an urgency for the Euro-Mediterranean public institutions and for the democratic governments of the region. “Only in this way will we advance in social justice by opening a future for youth, today without horizons of progress. ”

Along these lines, the EESC has focused on addressing “the role of institutions, as a guarantee of social rights, as an element of security for sustainable economic development, and also of the essential participation of civil society in the design of the measures to implement these objectives ”.

The recommendations of the Mediterranean Euro Summit 2019 will be sent to the political authorities of the countries involved in the Euromed Ministerial Summits, as a contribution of civil society to their work.

Mostra Viva closes its 7th edition as a reference festival in the Mediterranean

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Success and consolidation, two words that define the 7th edition of the Mostra Viva del Mediterrani . Under the slogan “the month most Mediterranean” the city of Valencia has turned in its various shows divided between the Encontré d’Escriptors, l’Aplec de Dansa, the Trobada de Muscia, Visual or performing arts where we highlight the exhibition “The sea of illustrated ”and the Debates or the Performing Arts. The ACM Foundation, sponsor of the event, has collaborated through debates on youth in the Mediterranean, but especially through the ACM circles of Algiers, Sarajevo, Cairo, Thessaly or Palestine.

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La Fundación ACM como entidad patrocinadora del evento ha colaborado en esta edición a través de debates sobre juventud en el Mediterráneo, pero de forma especial mediante los círculos ACM de Argel, Sarajevo, El Cairo, Tesalia o Palestina. El Presidente de Honor de Mostra Viva, Vicent Garcés ha destacado los conflictos actuales del Mediterráneo que afectan de lleno a los jóvenes que se ven obligados a abandonar sus países de origen.

Dentro del marco de programación, además de los debates que abordar temas como la migración o la situación de los jóvenes en el Mediterráneo, la Trobada de Música fue inaugurada en el Teatre El Musical (TEM) por el espectáculo repleto de misticismo y espiritualidad, a cargo de los derviches del Sufi Ansamble Mesudija, que contaron con la colaboración del popular cantante bosnio Armin Muzaferija y el profesor de la Academia de Bellas Artes de Sarajevo Cazim Hadzimejlic. Una propuesta procedente del círculo ACM de Sarajevo.

En el apartado de artes visuales, la exposición “La mar de ilustradas” mostró la obra de artustas visuales y diseñadoras de 18 países del Mediterráneo. La exhibición, realizada con la ayuda de la Fundación de Asamblea de Ciudadanos del Mediterráneo (FACM), fue fruto de la búsqueda y selección de diferentes diseñadoras, ilustradoras y artistas visuales de la ribera mediterránea, dando como resultado un conjunto de trabajos en forma de portafolio que refleja las diferentes maneras de concebir el mensaje gráfico desde el punto de vista femenino y su contextualización con el entorno creativo.

Así mismo, la exposición “Harraga, un retornado” de Foued Boutba, atestiguó el drama de la emigración en el Mediterráneo a través de la mirada de un creador que permaneció varios días perdido en el mar. Una muestra propuesta por el círuclo ACM de Argel en colaboración de la FACM.

La narración oral contó con la participación de intervenciones del artista Fayçal Belattar de Argel, de Reem El Tayeb de El Cairo y de Sassa Boulgari, propuesta por el círculo ACM de Tesalia, mientras que l’encontre d’escriptors contó con la mirada de 20 escritores de la región que abordaron el exilio desde sus perspectivas.

 

NAPLES: INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ‘MEDITERRANEAN HERITAGE AND CITIZENSHIP’

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International Seminar, ‘Mediterranean Heritage and citizenship destruction-reconstruction | memory preservation | citizen participation’.

A meeting organized by the ACM Foundation in collaboration with the Peripli Association in which 13 Mediterranean countries participated.

In his speech, the president of the MCA Foundation, Vicente Garcés, highlighted the need to promote a critical reflection, capable of opening new perspectives to rebuild the heritage of the different Mediterranean areas. A debate that contemplates the analysis of the different forms of citizen participation and their role in the recovery of local and collective memory.

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Between October 4 and 6, specialists, researchers, restaurateurs, institutions and civil society have encouraged the promotion of dialogue between Euro-Mediterranean cultures. In the sessions, synergies have been created to boost the awareness of a Mediterranean citizenship through meetings and activities such as those organized by the MCA Foundation, spread throughout the Mediterranean area. Concordances that become the action and that directly involve citizens.

Among the Institutions’ representatives who have participated in the Seminar, the presence of Juan Andrès Perellò Rodriguez, Spain’s ambassador to UNESCO, Maria Donzelli, president of the Peripli Association / member of the MCA Foundation Advisory Council. Donzelli has expressed the desire to ‘mobilize so that culture and its assets are the fourth pillar of sustainable development. We want to promote citizens ‘awareness of the vital importance of collective memory and the interconnections of cultures.’

The Seminar has had the institutional support of the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, UNESCO, the city hall of Naples, among others. Members of the MCAF Advisory Council, the MCA circles of Naples, Casablanca, Nice, Algiers, Palestine, Marseille, Valencia, Sarajevo, Syria, Paris, Thessaly, among participants from Cairo, Rabat, Tirana or Tunisia, as well as members of the MCAF Governing Board.

Margarita Belinchón, Director of the Museum of Natural Sciences and member of the MCAF Governing board; the director of the Museum of the History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Elma Hodzic, member of the MCA circle of Sarajevo; the researcher Carlos Tachos – MCA circle of Thessaly; the Palestinian diplomat Hassan Balawi, member of the MCAF Advisory Council; the cultural manager Zine Eddine Seffadj from the MCA circle Algiers; the writer Nadir Benmatti – MCA circle of Nizza, the Uv Professor Malika Eddakhch, from MCA circle Rabat; political scientist Salam Kawakibi, MCAF Advisory Council, or the researcher, Nicoletta Stendardo from the MCA circle in Marseille.

The Seminar concluded with the firm proposal to continue working, to expand contributions, commitments, to continue studying the ways of preserving the memory of the Mediterranean and the lines of citizen participation. The participations, made very clear the proection of the Mediterranean common herritage and the social, identity and cultural cohesion of their peoples.

7th MCAF Meeting. Casablanca, Morocco, November 2017

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ACM Foundation and Peripli Association organize an international seminar : Mediterranean heritage and citizenship destruction-reconstruction | memory preservation | citizen participation

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The Mediterranean Citizens’ Assembly Foundation (FACM) and Association Peripli, Culture and Società Euromediterranee

organize an international seminar

Mediterranean heritage and citizenship

destruction-reconstruction | memory preservation | citizen participation

Algiers | Cairo | Larisa | Marseille | Nablus | Nice | Paris | Rabat

| Sarajevo | Syria | Tirana | Tunisia | Valencia

Naples October 4 - 5, 2019 (9.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.)
Monumental complex of San Domenico Maggiore - Chapter room
vico San Domenico Maggiore 18 - Naples

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This seminar is sponsored by the ACM Foundation with the institutional support of the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (PAM), UNESCO, the city hall of Naples, the Consulate of France and that of Portugal, among others. Participating in the convention are members of the ACM Foundation Advisory Council, the ACM circles of Naples, Casablanca, Nice, Algiers, Palestine, Marseille, Valencia, Sarajevo, Syria, Paris, Thessaly, among participants from Cairo, Rabat, Tirana or Tunisia.

Researchers, curators, mediators and citizens bring together to redefine the role of museums, libraries and cultural institutes in the 21st century; analyze the different forms of citizen participation in several countries, the devices and projects destined to this participation, and reconsider the role of citizens, their associations in the recovery of local and collective memory.

The colloquium, therefore, intends to promote a critical reflection but at the same time draw a perspective of orientations to reconstruct the heritage of the different Mediterranean areas, assuming that in a “knowledge transmission society” the traditionally responsible institutions of this mission (schools, universities, museums, libraries, etc.) are no longer the only ones that do it, in fact, often, for various reasons, they fail
in their mision.

One of the objectives of this initiative is also to open a broad debate
in the Mediterranean area, promoting a project that in the coming years
It will include periodic territorial meetings in the different Mediterranean countries. “We want to encourage civil society actors involved in the heritage sectors coming from the two shores of the Mediterranean and offer them a meeting opportunity. We want to mobilize so that culture and its assets are the fourth pillar of sustainable development. We want to promote citizens’ awareness about the vital importance of collective memory, the interconnections of cultures, the participation of all citizens in the reconstruction of Mediterranean heritage, as common and shared goods” said Maria Donzelli, president of the Peripli Association / member of the FACM Advisory Council.

The citizen colloquium, which takes place not by chance in Naples, a city of a thousand contradictions, crossroads of encounters and disagreements between the peoples of the Mediterranean, is celebrated on the occasion of the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of Peripli and the FACM who collaborate in a fruitful synergy of objectives: l The Peripli Association promotes dialogue between Euro-Mediterranean cultures through training activities, philosophical coffees, research, publications, city meetings; The FACM promotes awareness of a Mediterranean citizenship through meetings and activities organized by its 28 Circles, spread throughout the Mediterranean area.

The initiative was born in November 2017 in Casablanca, on the occasion of the 7th FACM Meeting where the issue of Mediterranean heritage was addressed. Several countries were present: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria, Palestine, Israel, Cyprus, Greece, Spain, Italy. The discussion highlighted the dramatic social, economic and political
situations, due to conflicts and wars, terrorism and natural disasters that
destroyed and continue to destroy the tangible and intangible assets of the
Mediterranean countries. All participants from the different countries that were present at that
meeting of the FACM expressed the need to address the dramatic consequences of
such events that undermine the cultural roots of Mediterranean countries and
the social, identity and cultural cohesion of their peoples.

CITIZEN COLLOQUY: Mediterranean heritage and citizenship. Destruction, reconstruction, preservation of memories and citizen participation

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COLLOQUE CITOYEN: Patrimoines méditerranéens et citoyenneté. 
Destruction, reconstruction, conservation des mémoires et participation citoyenne

Naples, 4 et 5 Octobre 2019

Complexe Monumental de San Domenico Maggiore. Salle du Capitol

Vico San Domenico Maggiore, 18

A l’occasion des 10 années des respectives activités, l’Association Peripli. Culture e Società Euromediterranee et la Fondation Assemblée des Citoyens et des Citoyennes de la Méditerranée (FACM), organisent un ‘Colloque citoyen’ sur le thème Patrimoines méditerranéens et citoyenneté. Destruction, reconstruction, conservation des mémoires et participation citoyenne.

L’Association Peripli, avec son cercle ACM du Naples, et la FACM collaborent depuis presque 10 ans en synergie d’intentions : L’Association promeuve le dialogue entre les cultures euro-méditerranéennes à travers activités de formation, cafés philosophiques, recherches, publications, conférences, rencontres citoyennes, etc., tandis que la FACM, promeuve la conscience d’une citoyenneté méditerranéenne à travers des rencontres et des activités organisées par ses 28 cercles présents dans toute l’aire de la Méditerranée, et à travers des plateformes de confrontation dans des assemblées périodiques, dans lesquelles participent des citoyens représentants des pays jusqu’ici adhérents à la même Fondation.

La défense de la spécificité des cultures et de leur rencontre dans une perspective interculturelle s’harmonise donc avec la promotion de la conscience d’une citoyenneté méditerranéenne.

L’idée d’organiser le Colloque citoyen de Naples est née à Casablanca en Novembre 2017, à l’occasion de la VIIème rencontre périodique de l’Assemblée de la FACM. Dans cette circonstance une des agoras était dédiée au thème des patrimoines. Ils étaient présents plusieurs représentants des pays méditerranéens : Maroc, Algérie, Tunisie, Syrie, Palestine, Israël, Cyprée, Grèce, Espagne, France, Italie, etc. La discussion a été très riche, intense, parfois dramatique à cause des situations sociales, économiques et politiques, à cause des conflits et des guerres, du terrorisme, des calamités naturelles dues aux changements climatiques, qui ont détruit, et continuent à détruire, les patrimoines matériels et immatériels des pays de la Méditerranée.

Au cours de cette agora, tous les représentants des différents pays ont exprimé l’exigence d’approfondir les conséquences dramatiques de ces situations, qui minent, concrètement, les racines culturelles des pays méditerranéens, ainsi que les cohésions sociales, identitaires, interculturelles et la vie même des peuples de la Méditerranée.

La nécessité de la reconstruction et de la remise en état des patrimoines culturels et sociaux des pays représentés a été évidente au cours de la discussion, ainsi que évidente a été la volonté de la participation citoyenne dans la récupération des mémoires locales et collectives de l’aire méditerranéenne, à fin de tenter de surmonter l’absurde conflictualité présente, dans une perspective de coexistence pacifique.

Voilà, donc, l’idée d’animé le Colloque citoyen de Naples, une ville qui vit plusieurs des contradictions, des fastes et des déclins, du croisement des cultures et de la dynamique confrontation/affrontement des peuples de la Méditerranée.

La perspective à long terme de cette initiative est de promouvoir, dans toutes les villes des pays représentés dans la FACM, des rencontres, des dialogues, des discussions, des activités, sur ce thème dans les années à venir, en ouvrant une confrontation citoyenne permanente, à partir des réalités locales, mais avec le concours des réalités interconnectées, soit sur le plan culturel que sur ceux social et citoyen.

Nous voulons promouvoir la conscience citoyenne de l’importance vitale de la conservation des mémoires, des interconnexions des cultures, de la participation de chaque citoyen à la reconstruction et valorisation des patrimoines méditerranéens, matériels et immatériels, comme des biens partagés et communs.

Nous voulons nous mobiliser à fin que la culture et ses biens soient reconnus comme le IVème pilier du développement durable de notre mer commune.

Nous voulons valoriser les acteurs de la société civile des deux rives de la Méditerranée, impliqués dans les secteurs patrimoniales et leur offrir une occasion de confrontation des idées pour des actions toujours plus efficaces.

Maria Donzelli

Président Association « Peripli. Culture et Società Euromediterranee »

Membre du Conseil Consultatif de la FACM

ACM Foundation joins the statement with other 100 organisations to stop the criminalisation of solidarity with migrants in Europe

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#HelpisNoCrime

Over 100 independent organisations, including ACM Foundation are calling the new European Commission to stop the criminalisation of solidarity with migrants in Europe in a joint statement published today.

The organisations are calling the European Commission and its newly elected head Ursula Von der Leyen to reform the EU Facilitation Directive, which currently allows Member States to criminalise humanitarian aid.

In particular, the signatories wrote:
“Most investigations and formal prosecutions are related to the vague definition of crime in the EU Facilitation Directive which fails to properly distinguish between human smuggling and humanitarian work. But the European Commission has been reluctant to consider the links between the EU Facilitation Directive and the criminalisation of solidarity” The statement also refers to a recent study by the European research platform ReSOMA which found at least 158 Europeans have been criminalised for their help towards migrants since 2015.

The signatories wrote:
“The targets include volunteers, activists, NGOs, crew members of rescue ships, migrants’ family members, and also journalists, mayors and priests. The recent arrest of the Sea Watch 3 captain, Carola Rackete, is just the latest example of how people are being blamed for saving migrants’ lives and providing the humanitarian assistance which Member States are unwilling or unable to provide, despite being obliged to according to international and EU law.”

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Track record of the 2019 edition: Citizens engagement of young people in the Mediterranean day

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Track record of the 2019 edition. In figures: 200 participants in France and 2000 in the Mediterranean, 10 countries, 25 beaches. Launched in 2014, the” Atelier des Jeunes Citoyens de la Méditerranée (AJCM”) stands up for s collective action of young people committed to the protection of the Mediterranean Sea. Supported by the FACM, this year’s event brings together the MCA circles of Beirut, Tirana, Podgorica, Marseille, Rabat, Casablanca, Larache and Tunis

 Track record AJCM 2019

 

GUIDE: “A PROPOSAL FOR INCLUSION BY REFUGEE PEOPLE”

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The ACM Foundation presented on June 27, at 7:00 pm, in Museum of History of Valencia (MhV), the GUIDE: “A PROPOSAL FOR INCLUSION BY REFUGEE PEOPLE”, publication that is part of the project” Education in human rights, as a tool for the inclusion of refugee people”.

It is a publication of a propositive nature that includes good inclusion practices from the perspective of the refugees themselves who have participated in the project, and which can be used by public administrations, civil organizations and institutions, among others.
The initiative has the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain.

In this “guide” those who have the leading role and the word are those who usually never have it: the refugees. For this, the methodology for the preparation of the publication is based on the participatory perspective. Based on the orientation of specialized entities, the ACM Foundation formed a team of 14 refugee persons following criteria such as parity, geographic diversity and situations. Subsequently, through interviews and discussion meetings, the group was shedding the conclusions of this guide. It has been essential the collaboration of experts in migration, as well as representatives of the main organizations (CAR-Mislata, CEAR, Red Cross, UNHCR, UNRWA, Universitat de València and others), who have provided their orientation and knowledge.

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