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Throughout a dedicated website, exLibris – Digital Orient Express aims to overpass physical distances among European, Mediterranean and Middle East countries, organising contents and proposing e-books immediately available all over the world. This will lead to discover also those books which struggle to emerge and to reach a wider audience.
exLibris main goals are:
- to stimulate reading as a way of gaining knowledge and improving cultural exchange throughout the region;
- to foster translation as a tool for intercultural dialogue as well as to develop interests in different languages and cultures of the region;
- to spread the usage of high technology as an instrument to share knowledge and cultural curiosity;
- to introduce e-books in Arabic language in the editorial sector in order to make them accessible also beyond Arab countries.

The Association “International Federation for Sustainable Development and Fight Against Poverty in the Mediterranean-Black Sea" was founded in 2004 on the basis of the positive experience acquired within the framework of the SeaM project, supported by the European Commission (DG Enlargement and DG Regional Policies) and of the Italian Ministry of Environment. The project gave birth to the network composed by 188 partners belonging to 37 different countries, and gathering cultural, social, economic private and public institutions, ngos, associations, non governmental agencies, studies and research institutes and universities.
Now the association is composed by 217 members belonging to 39 different Euro-Mediterranean and Black Sea countries, by representing, then, more than 1,6 million female and male citizens.

Promotion de la culture minoritaire des regions italiennes
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The aim of the organisation is to promote the performing, the study, the research and composition of music in all its forms including the organisation of concerts, festivals, cultural exchanges, the promotion and production of new musical works, the commissioning of contemporary music works to living composers, the holding of exhibitions for the arts in general and concerts, seminars, workshops, and conventions on musical matters and themes and the encouragement of people of all ages in their pursuit of knowledge of music focusing in particurlar on classical and contemprary music.

Born over the assumption that organized crime has long become a transnational phenomenon, FLARE intends to represent an alternative model to contrast organized crime in Europe and the neighbouring territories. FLARE’s aim is to promote an alternative – however complimentary – modus operandi than the one implemented by institutions for the fight against transnational organized crime.
The FLARE Network aims at:
- raising awareness among European citizens about the diffusion and the influence of organized crime in Europe and in the surrounding territories;
- having the European Parliament proclaim March 21st “European Day in memory of the victims of the mafias and for the commitment in contrasting organized crime“;
- requesting the European Commission and the Council of Europe to legislate in the matter of reuse for social purposes of property and goods confiscated to international criminal organizations.