Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation
Activities
In the framework of these main objectives the activities of the Foundation should take into account existing achievements within and beyond the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, thus avoiding any duplication of effort. The activities should also be in line with the non-governmental nature of the Foundation.
The areas of heritage, audio-visual information technology, professional training, to name but a few, are to a large extent already covered by the Euro-Mediterranean regional programmes (Euromed Heritage, Euromed Audio-visual, Eumedis, Euromed Youth, etc).
Similarly, many government and non-governmental agencies (Associations, Foundations, Cultural Centres, Festivals, etc) are already active in the cultural field. Existing activities or entities should not be duplicated or financed; instead the Foundation should bring its own added value to activities.
In that respect lessons should be learned from the old decentralised co-operation programmes (Med Media, Med Campus, etc) and existing regional programmes (Euromed Heritage, Euromed Audiovisual).
In this framework the following types of activities should be agreed for the Foundation:
- exchanges between cultural and intellectual circles in the wider sense,
- promoting a continuous cultural debate using in particular multi-media techniques
(television, radio, periodical magazine, Internet) in co-operation with important existing
media and with the participation of people from both shores including journalists and the
young,
- patronage of important events which symbolise mutual understanding (for example, a
limited number of concerts, exhibitions, etc on relevant themes), co-financed by large media
groups and/or festivals and institutions already active in these areas,
- promoting the activities of the Barcelona Process including through means of the
Foundation itself (periodical magazine, Internet site).
In this spirit, an indicative list of possible activities is annexed hereto. It is to be noted that the
discussion on the objectives and activities of the Foundation should also take into account the
results of the work of the High Level Advisory Group set up by Commission President Romano
Prodi.
Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation official website
Terms of reference
Euromed Report 68 Report by the high-level advisory group established at the initiative of the President of the European Commission
Euromed Report 59 Euro-mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures - Annex 2.
Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the dialogue between Cultures
Euro-Mediterranean Foundation website
Call for Candidatures
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The objectives shall be established as set out in the statute of the Foundation, which will be proposed to the institutions of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership.
The main objectives are:
- to identify, develop and promote areas of cultural convergence between the countries and peoples of the Mediterranean, with the aim in particular of avoiding stereotypes,
- to hold a close and regular dialogue between cultural circles often kept outside the maindiplomatic and cultural exchanges,
- to serve as a catalyst for promoting exchanges, co-operation and mobility between people at all levels, targeting in particular the young and activities relevant to young people.
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The Euro-Mediterranean Foreign Ministers agreed on the name and the location of the new institution for dialogue in the Mediterranean. The Foundation will be known as “The Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures”, in memory of the assasinated swedish foreign minister, who was postumously voted in Sweden “European of the Year”. The ministers accepted with gratitude the offer of Egypt and Sweden that the foundation should have its headquarters in Alexandria Library in tandem with the Swedish Institute in Alexandria.