Piazza Michelangelo, 4
SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO
Italie
- International/Cultural relations
MIND aims at establishing cooperation networks at an international level, acquiring both leading and active roles, mediate in projects between foreign countries, the European Union, the Mediterranean basin, the Italian State, the Regions and other local entities (NGO, cooperatives, SME’s etc), both national and international, so to promote the aims and objectives of the Association.
Improving the dynamics for sharing and dialogue amongst Associations, Institutions, Universities and Local Administration, increasing the quality and efficiency of decentralised cooperation;
Reinforcing local and regional empowerment and territorial attractiveness;
Sustaining the convergence dynamics between the local and community policies in respect to issues related to education, innovation, research, local development, environmental sustainability together with social and cultural dialogue;
Promoting and sustaining new and diverse initiatives for cooperation, in the particular issues related particularly to the prospective of creating international networking which supports the local culture reality.
The projects activity areas include:
- Protection of civil rights and fundamental freedoms, equal gender opportunities between man and woman;
- Protection, promotion and valorization of artistic, social and cultural heritage, including libraries and other cultural treasures as well as non-material aspects through dissemination events which promote social integration;
- Promotion of intercultural exchanges through activities open to the public, educational activities (both formal and informal) and social events targeting social and cultural integration and involving disadvantaged members of society at international, European, national and regional levels;
- Professional training for educational services management;
- Protection and valorization of the environment through the direct leadership, or partnership, in projects and initiatives targeting the matter;
- Supply to other NGOs, Public administrations, enterprise and Universities support activities and other services related to planning and reporting related to eAudit for european funded projects.
MIND will contribute to AL Network becoming a promoter of European citizenship and of the social cultural belonging at a Mediterranean level. Specifically, MIND will involve itself at a regional level as it aims to promote, through various initiatives, the role of Puglia which geographically acts as an intermediary hub between the Balkan and Mediterranean areas.
MIND’s activities thus qualify as Euro-Mediterranean characteristics, and will focus on the promotion of integrated projects of a European dimension that support processes of positive cultural dialogue and common growth within the region of Puglia and any neighboring regions.
Through the work of MIND, a network will be formed to incorporate various organizations, involving Universities, Enterprises and public entities, in order to improve their active role in the cooperation of both at a local and community level.
Improving the dynamics for sharing and dialogue amongst Associations, Institutions, Universities and Local Administration, increasing the quality and efficiency of decentralised cooperation;
Reinforcing local and regional empowerment and territorial attractiveness;
Sustaining the convergence dynamics between the local and community policies in respect to issues related to education, innovation, research, local development, environmental sustainability together with social and cultural dialogue;
Promoting and sustaining new and diverse initiatives for cooperation, in the particular issues related particularly to the prospective of creating international networking which supports the local culture reality.
MIND want to join the ALF Network to improve its role in the EuroMediterranean area in terms of positive actor oriented to provide visibility and diffusion of the initiatives of civil society organizations and local authorities active in the Mediterranean.
Through our participation to the ALF Network, MIND aims at the creation of the necessary conditions for the leaders of these initiatives to meet in order to share know-how and experiences, to avoid scattered and compartmentalized actions, and by doing so, to optimize their impact in the field; encouraging particularly North-South and South-South dialogue and knowledge exchanges.
Being part of ALF Network will allow to MIND to gain recognition of the importance of the civil society role as designers, managers, and leaders of development policies and initiatives that are the closest to the citizens.
We want to put in relation what we are learning in our European project initiatives with the knowledge of other European and Meditterranean networks and actors. We want to produce and space for mix, cooperation and organization that could work at least at a European level.