Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the dialogue between cultures
Created following the Euro-Mediterranean Conference in Valencia (2002) and constituted by networks of institutions from each country in the region, the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation will, from 2005, seek to encourage cultural dialogue and promote exchange, cooperation and mobility, particularly among young people, as well as organising activities within the framework of the Barcelona Process. This is how its Director, Traugott Schöfthaler, put it on 11th and 12th November in Brussels in the first meeting of the Foundation.
The Spanish institutions that currently make up the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation are: IEMed (head of the network);AFS Intercultura España; Aula Universitaria del Estrecho. Universidad de Cádiz; Asociación Internacional de Productores Independientes del Mediterráneo (APIMED); Casa de les Llengües. Departament de la Presidència -Generalitat de Catalunya; Centro UNESCO de Cataluña; Col·legi d ' Aparelladors i Arquitectes Tècnics de Barcelona; Departamento de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Departamento de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos, Universidad Complutense; Departamento de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos, Universidad de Alicante; Escuela de Estudios Árabes (CSIC); Escuela de Traductores de Toledo; Foro de Investigadores sobre el Mundo Árabe y Musulmán; Fundación ATMAN; Fundación Centro Educación Superior en Oriente Medio (CESOM); Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE); Fundación CIDOB; Fundación de Cultura Islámica; Fundación Interarts; Fundación Legado Andalusí; • Fundación Nueva Cultura del Agua; Fundación para la promoción social de la cultura; Fundación Tres Culturas; Instituto Español de Estudios Europeos, Universidad de San Pablo, CEU; Observatori per la Interculturalitat i els Drets Humans (Universitat Rovira i Virgili - Tarragona); Observatorio Científico de la Ciudad Mediterránea; Observatorio DESC -Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales; Oficina de Cooperación Educativa y Científica Internacional Departamento Educación. Generalitat Catalunya; Real Instituto Elcano; Sociedad Española de Estudios Árabes (SEEA); Taller de Estudios Internacionales del Mediterráneo (TEIM - UAM); Taller de Músics.
The Euromed Heritage programme, funded by the EU, aims at streghthening relations between the European Union and mediterranean partners. Euromed Heritage supports Mediterranean countries in their efforts to promote and care for their heritage.
The Euromed Heritage projects are coached by an external Regional Management and Support Unit (RMSU) . The RMSU works strictly together with the EuropeAid Co-operation Office and benefits from the scientific and logistic support of the Italian Institute for Catalogue and Documentation (ICCD), and from the technical know-how of Città d'Acqua. These two organisations form the Management Board. Two Mediterranean Institutions support the Management Board, the Institut Français d'Architecture (IFA) and the Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània.
The Euromed Civil Forum is an annual gathering of Euro-Mediterranean civil society, which has set out to influence the process through the contributions of civil society.
Jointly with other institutions, IEMed is part of the Piloting Committee for the Euromed Civil Forum ; this is responsible for the annual organisation of this event.
IEMed is now member of the non-governmental platform for the Euromed Civil Forum , which was created in 2003. Its fundamental objective is to ensure the continuity, the legitimacy and the effectiveness of what is called the Euromed Civil Forum. At present it consists of some sixty organisations and institutions.
And lastly, IEMed is also member of the state platform for the Euromed Civil Forum, which is in charge of defining the strategy and stance to be adopted by Spain in these gatherings.
This association brings together different agents from both shores of the Mediterranean , not only from the world of culture and the arts, but also from education and research, which have a common baggage in the Euro-Mediterranean, exchanges. The objective of FEMEC is to reinforce the actions of those who transmit ideas between the two shores of the Mediterranean and to strengthen the understanding between the cultures as well as the exchange of civil societies. On its web page there is a news space on cultural activities in the Mediterranean and documentation on the Euro-Mediterranean process. There is also a space with links to a number of Mediterranean magazines, amongst which is the Quaderns de la Mediterrània , with a search engine for articles by subject.
The Euro-Mediterranean Study Commission is a network of research centres and independent university centres that devote themselves to the analysis of themes of foreign politics and to research on the subject of security in the Mediterranean .
The activities of the network, which numbers 48 member institutes, 24 observers and 2 associates from the 27 countries that make up the Euro-Mediterranean partnership, basically deal with political and security issues. The aim of the network is to build trust and joint work between its members.
IEMed is an observer member of the network from 2002.
The Europa Diversa network is a virtual organisation of people and institutions dedicated to understanding, debating and working together on the situation of cultural diversity within the framework of the new Europe.
The network seeks to contribute to the creation of a new dynamic and social awareness of some key questions, such as for example: to vindicate the value of difference in the construction of Europe as a source of wealth and creativity; to enhance the contact and communication between national minorities and groups of immigrants, especially when the former become receiving societies of immigrants; to exploit the awareness and experience of small and minority nations throughout Europe; to assume the complexity of coexisting with difference; to seek out an intercultural model of relations between groups; to search for an articulated model of policies of recognition and social justice, and warn of the dangers of not respecting cultural difference.
http://www.europadiversa.org/
STRADEMED (Stratégie Développement Méditerranée)
Association set up in 1996 based on institutions in Spain , France and Tunisia , it is at present a network that numbers 34 member institutions from 20 countries from the Union and the other shore of the Mediterranean . Its activity is centred on the Euro-Mediterranean partnership and covers STRADEMED training cycles. Its members meet every year when an international colloquium is held.
What is the IEMed?
The Euromed Civil Forum is an annual gathering of Euro-Mediterranean civil society, which has set out to influence the process through the contributions of civil society.
IEMed is now member of the non-governmental platform for the Euromed Civil Forum , which was created in 2003. Its fundamental objective is to ensure the continuity, the legitimacy and the effectiveness of what is called the Euromed Civil Forum. At present it consists of some sixty organisations and institutions.
This association brings together different agents from both shores of the Mediterranean , not only from the world of culture and the arts, but also from education and research, which have a common baggage in the Euro-Mediterranean, exchanges. The objective of FEMEC is to reinforce the actions of those who transmit ideas between the two shores of the Mediterranean and to strengthen the understanding between the cultures as well as the exchange of civil societies. On its web page there is a news space on cultural activities in the Mediterranean and documentation on the Euro-Mediterranean process. There is also a space with links to a number of Mediterranean magazines, amongst which is the Quaderns de la Mediterrània , with a search engine for articles by subject.
The Euro-Mediterranean Study Commission is a network of research centres and independent university centres that devote themselves to the analysis of themes of foreign politics and to research on the subject of security in the Mediterranean .
The Europa Diversa network is a virtual organisation of people and institutions dedicated to understanding, debating and working together on the situation of cultural diversity within the framework of the new Europe.
Association set up in 1996 based on institutions in Spain , France and Tunisia , it is at present a network that numbers 34 member institutions from 20 countries from the Union and the other shore of the Mediterranean . Its activity is centred on the Euro-Mediterranean partnership and covers STRADEMED training cycles. Its members meet every year when an international colloquium is held.