FEDERATION ANNA LINDH ITALIA - ONLUS

 

The Federazione Anna Lindh Italia, not-for-profit, shares the aims of the Anna Lindh Foundation: created in 2004 by the European Commission together with the 42 Euro-Mediterranean countries.
The Federation's objective is to promote, support and implement the cultural and social interaction between Italy and the Euro-Mediterranean countries in various fields of action including: art, architecture, archaeology, environment, crafts, youth, women, human rights, migrants, crafts, employment, training, education, education, childhood, sports, interreligious dialogue, legality, music, food culture, empowerment, tradition, tourism, social solidarity, exchanges.
In particular, the Federation intends to implement initiatives in favour of young people, especially aimed at restoring their hope and confidence through the promotion of the "true",the "beautiful" and the "good”. 

MEETING OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE OF THE RIDE

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Roma | 15 September 2016
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Federazione Anna Lindh Italia - Onlus (EN)

He met in Rome at the headquarters of Uninettuno the Steering committee of the "RIDE-RETE ITALIANA PER IL DIALOGO EUROMEDITERRANEO ONLUS”.
On this occasion:

  • The resignation of the members of the Executive Committee Calleri, De Luca and Russo, has been ratified.
  • The Fondazione Mediterraneo  has submitted its resignation as a founding member as a legal representative of the RIDE.
  • Prof. Garito – Rector of Uninettuno – has announced his resignation from the RIDE.
  • Min. Granara proposed Dr. Molinaro as legal representative temporary of the RIDE in substitution of the dismissed Prof. Michele Capasso.

This is a fifth reunion of CE in the new composition chosen by AG from 11.08.2015.

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THE PRESIDENT ELIZABETH GUIGOU INAGURATES THE “DOCUMENTATION CENTRE OF THE ANNA LINDH FOUNDATION”

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Napoli | 09 September 2016
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Federazione Anna Lindh Italia - Onlus (EN)

On September 9, 2016 the hon. Elisabeth Guigou - President of the Foreign affairs Commission  of the National Assembly of the French Republic and president of the Anna Lindh Foundation (FAL) - accompanied by her husband Prof. Jean-Louis Guigou, the Ambassador of Morocco in Italy Hassan Abouyoub, the consul General of France Jean-Paul Seytre, the consul general of Spain Fernando Sanchez Rau, the president of the City Council of Naples Doc. Alessandro Fucito, the delegate of the magnificent rector Prof. Gilberto Sammartino and other institutional representatives- inaugurated the section dedicated to the Fondazione Anna Lindh and its documentation centre carried out by the Fondazione Mediterraneo.
Present at the ceremony many founding members of the Italian FAL network who have illustrated their activity for the FAL:

  • Prof. Gilberto Sammartino recalled the role of the university Federico II and the actions carried out by the 2005 to date.
  • Prof. Massimo Pica Ciamarra, of the Euromedcity network and of PCA Int, illustrated the significant initiatives and commitment to support the project "Mediterranean capitals of dialogue".
  • Dr. Antonio Altiero, of the civil service, illustrated the initiatives in favour of the earthquake of Amatrice and everything realized in the Italian network from 2005.
  • The president of the City Council of Naples, Alessandro Fucito, has illustrated what has been done by Naples in over a decade for dialogue and initiatives for the Italian network.
  • Irene Capozzi and Sara De Angelis, of the associations CEIPES of Palermo and GRAMMELOT of Naples, illustrated the project supported by the FAL "IMAP: Intercultural Map of your city", application for migrants "proposed by the on. Guigou that is being realized in Naples and Palermo.
  • The CEIPES of Palermo illustrated its activities

President Guigou expressed his appreciation for the thirty-year action carried out by President Capasso for dialogue and peace, recalling the common friendship with the late President Mitterand.
President Guigou has been with the members of the Italian network, expressing his praise for the concrete actions carried out, particularly for the migrants and for the earthquake. He concluded his speech by stating what the Fondazione Mediterraneo has done in over 25 years of activity is "a commendable example that will have to be strengthened with further partnerships: a thank you and a good one to Michele Capasso for his commitment as a creator and activator of the FAL and the Italian network ".

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SYRIAN FAMILIES HOUSED IN SAN BIAGIO

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San Biagio (Subiaco) | 05 September 2016
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Federazione Anna Lindh Italia - Onlus (EN)

The Italian Network of the Anna Lindh Foundation continues to support Syrian families.
Some of them are guests of the "House of prayer of San Biagio", where they have found love, welcome and - above all - peace: they come from Aleppo, today's "Sarajevo", where every day innocent victims die from the lack of justice and peace on the part of the rulers.

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THE ADVISOR BOARD OF THE ANNA LINDH FOUNDATION MEETS AT FARNESINA

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Roma | 08 September 2016
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Federazione Anna Lindh Italia - Onlus (EN)

The Advisor Council of the Anna Lindh Foundation for the Euro-Mediterranean dialogue consisting of the 42 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UpM), met today at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, inaugurated by the undersecretary Bendetto della Vedova at Presence of the Executive director of the Fondazione Anna Lindh Ambassador Hatem Atallah and the president of the Fondazione Anna Lindh Elisabeth Guigou.
"The peace and stability of the Mediterranean is a priority for Italy, which strongly believes in the collaboration between the two shores of the Mediterranean," said the undersecretary Della Vedova during its opening intervention, "Italy has long supported the Foundation's work to build a narrative against extremism and radicalization. The work of the Anna Lindh Foundation is fundamental to change the narrative on our region, bringing new incentive to the partnership between the two shores of the Mediterranean and putting civil society at the heart of this partnership ". The council, chaired by Elisabeth Guigou, president of the Foreign Committee of the French National Assembly, is composed of eminent personalities from Europe and the partner countries of the South Mediterranean shore, and is responsible for the management Strategic Foundation: Italy is represented by Prof. Michele Capasso, president of the “Fondazione Mediterraneo”  that has contributed substantially to the birth and development of the same Fondazione Anna Lindh since 2002.
At the heart of today's debate was the role of the Anna Lindh Foundation, as an institution and reference point for intercultural dialogue in the region, facing the regional challenge of extremism and the refugee crisis.
President Elisabeth Guigou pointed out that in the Mediterranean there is a convergence of values and that extremists who promote the alternative vision of a clash of values are a minority. The Foundation aims to encourage the silent majority to make its voice heard. The proposals of the president Capasso-among the proposals put forward- have been collected aimed at promoting "what unites us", the "positive" and focusing the main actions of the ALF on young people, women and cities "places of and for dialogue".
Future actions include the implementation of a regional youth programme, an Erasmus Mediterranean Youth Programme for ONG youth and the involvement of the main Mediterranean cities in cultural and social interaction.

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