THEMATIC AREAS
Besides the principal mission of the "dialogue between societies
and cultures" the following are thematic areas for the operations
of MdM:
1. Environment and Common Resurces of the Mediterranean:
dedicated to defending those environmental resources threatened
by pollution: sea, soil, ionosphere, flora and biodiversity. Defines
criteria of protection and sustainable exploitation and seeks
to ensure their application throughout the Euromediterranean.
2. Ethics and safeguarding of mental and physical health:
dedicated to harmonising standards of health care throughout the
Euromediterranean region, while recognising and respecting local
ethics and concepts of mental and physical well-being. Defines
and implements programmes of distribution of health services corresponding
to the best practices recognised by the respective communities.
3. Psycho-social well-being and relations among individuals,
families and groups: dedicated to studying relations
at the micro-social level to promote and support initiatives which
favour the quality of life in local communities and migrant groups.
Activates projects enhancing relations and solidarity between
genders, within the family and in social groupings, to move beyond
a view of the individual as autonomous and unrelated and to build
democracy and social participation.
4. Methodologies and programmes for urban development:
dedicated to reinforcing local authorities, both by studying
and generalising appropriate methodologies of participatory democracy
and by designing and implementing programmes of infrastructural
reinforcement and better management of public and local utilities.
Defines methodologies of cooperative and partnership exhanges
of professionalism and facilities, both in investment and management
phases, in order to minimise costs. Defines benchmark standards
for private operators.
5. Qualifying the migratory flow and social policies
combating emargination: dedicated to promoting professional
qualification of the migratory population, fostering training,
entrepreneurial promotion, and introduction of forms of international
economic partnership. Studies models of urban and rural settlement
of the migratory population which respect ethics and lead to inter-cultural
integration. Studies the juridical and administrative measures
required to foster integration and promote throughput of income
generated by migration.
6. Repristination and exploitation of minority skills
and cultures in the Euromediterranean: dedicated to identifying
repositories of environmental, productive, monumental and cultural
resources. Promotes a network designed to create international
circuits in which such resources can be adequately exploited in
terms of professional training, production of top quality goods,
and compatible tourism, in particular featuring the young and
cultural values.
7. Generators of Euromediterranean culture:
dedicated to fostering the dissemination and publishing initiatives
able to promote and exploit expressions of contemporary culture,
setting up and running a Museum of the Mediterranean, adminstering
the Portal EUROMEDI.NET which collects and disseminates the results
of Euromediterranean cooperation in a range of sectors, and the
planning, in scientific and conceptual terms, of periodic Festivals
of Euromediterranean culture.
8. Promotion of women's presence in the labour market:
dedicated to fostering the achievements of women at work, making
the most of female competence in the networking of work and decision-making
processes by means of consultancy available to organizations of
public administration and social bodies and a School of Specialisation,
with experimental, experiential and participative teaching methods,
designed for women at the the various levels of company management.
The focus will be transversal, across the various activities of
the MdM using technical support and strategies for recycling women
who have dropped out of the labour market.
