IEMed current info

Kairouan (Tunisia), June 19th-26th
RehabiMed Seminar on “Rehabilitation and durable tourism”

The RehabiMed project is part of the European Euromed Heritage programme, arisen as cultural programme from the Barcelona conference on 1995. Their objectives are to reinforce the activity of rehabilitation and maintenance as factor of sustainable development - social, economic and environmental - in all the Mediterranean countries, to contribute to improve the living conditions of an important part of the Mediterranean population, to preserve the historical and cultural identity of the Mediterranean traditional architecture and to create synergies and networks of transnational experts of different areas on rehabilitation and maintenance of buildings. The IEMed, as part of the Scientific Committee of the project with UNESCO of Paris and Oxford Brokes University, will participate in this seminary that will take place in Kairouan (Tunisia). (+)

Barcelona, June 28th-29th
Seminary " Barcelona Process: The new challenges. Spain and the Euro- Mediterranean Association in the new Neighborhood Policy "

Within the framework of development of the Neighborhood Policy year, the seminary will analyze the challenges that this new context represents to Spain and the possibilities to activate the Euro-Mediterranean project. It will gather experts, diplomats, politicians and civil society representatives linked to Barcelona Process with the objective they contribute to define the Spanish action in this scope.

The seminary counts on four main sessions:
The political dimension of the Euro-Mediterranean project. The position of Spain.
The Euro -Mediterranean economic agenda and the European Neighborhood Policy
The role of actors and institutions. Sociocultural dialogue.
Cooperation, decentralization and governability in Mediterranean.

Mediterranean Agenda

Alger, June 26th-27th
Regional workshop "National Water Information Systems"

The main aim of this workshop is to interchange experiences on NWIS implementation. The workshop will include plenary sessions with presentations and experiences with 3 group sessions that will analyze: legislative aspects and organization; data access; and end product promotion/added value. The results of the NWIS viability studies carried out in 2005 in the 10 Mediterranean partner countries, the conclusions of 4th World Water Forum about cooperation in the Water Information Systems and the proposal of a mechanism on water and cleaning observation. (+)

Other Activities

Barcelona, June 20th
Seminary "Morocco: What opportunity of cooperation between cities?"

The Directorate of International Relations Services of the Delegation of Barcelona organizes the seminary "Morocco: What opportunity of cooperation between cities?", with the aim to get closer to the Moroccan reality and promote a better knowledge of the Moroccan reality in the town councils of the Province of Barcelona. (+)
Place: Edifici el Vagó, c/Urgell 187
Information: Direcció de Serveis de Relacions Internacionals, Oficina de Cooperació al Desenvolupament. Telf. 934 022 504 • e-mail: o.cooperaciod@diba.cat

Barcelona, June 20th from 18h to 20h
Presentation of the DCIDOB magazine on Contemporary Egypt

Coinciding with the presentation of the Num. 97 of the dCIDOB magazine dedicated to the contemporary Egypt, the Mediterranean Programme of the CIDOB Foundation organizes a debate to discuss some of the most important aspects to understand a country - key in the Arab world - that lives in a controversial regional environment and that is experiencing complex political, economic and social processes. The presentation will be done by Josep Ribera, director of the CIDOB Foundation and there will be two speeches by Pedro Lopez de Aguirrebengoa, ex- ambassador of Spain in Egypt, and Gema Martín Muñoz, professor of Arab and Islamic sociology in the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
A copy of the magazine will be given to assistants.
Free entrance with confirmation Telf. 93 302 64 95 / activitats@cidob.org

Barcelona, from June 25th to August 5th
Thirty edition Festival de Barcelona Grec

The 30th Festival de Barcelona Grec, inaugurated on Sunday June 25th, is made up by 54 artistic proposals of music, theatre, dance, artistic performances and circus in 16 spaces of the city.
The Festival becomes, again, a platform of creation, with 21 own theatre, music and dance productions. Consolidated names mix with emergent values of the national and international artistic scene, like The Wooster Group, Declan Donellan, Lluís Pasqual, Pau Miró, Eduard Fernandez, La Fura dels Baus, Teatro de los Sentidos, Calixto Bieito, Javier Daulte, Àlex Rigola, Albert Pla, Rosa Novell, Sol Picó, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rodolfo Mederos & Miguel Poveda, Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra, Gotan Project, Lila Downs, Llibert Fortuny, Maria del Mar Bonet, CaboSanRoque and Miquel Gil.
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Paris, from May 4th to July 9th
Exhibition "Langages du désert"

Collective exhibition of contemporary art in the Institut du Monde Arabe, which includes works of twenty artists coming from countries of the Persian Gulf. (+)

Seville, until September 30th
Exhibition "Ibn Khaldoun. The Mediterranean in the 14th century. Peak and decline of the empires"

On the occasion of the VI centenary of Ibn Jaldún’s death, the Foundation Three Cultures collaborates with the Fundación Legado Andalusí in the commemorative exhibition "Ibn Khaldoun. The Mediterranean in the 14th century. Peak and decline of the empires". (+)