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The purpose of the Foundation is to promote cultural and social growth of human beings, as a priority resource for building relations of friendship and solidarity among peoples. In its activity the Foundation intends protecting and promoting all authentically human values for the building up of a co-existence more respectful of the real dignity of human beings. , having as its priority reference, on the one hand, the principles contained in Mgr. Luigi Giussani’s book “Il rischio educativo” and, on the other, making reference to the “fundamental principles” laid down by the constitution of the Italian Republic with special reference, as regards international relations, to the provisions of art.11.


“Meridie promotes arts and culture in all its forms especially in the Mediterranean area. The Association objectives are: exchange actions, dialogues and activities between cultural actors and artists in this area. It promotes and develops national and international meetings, seminars, pedagogical actions addressed to professionals training and to citizens, produces and organizes performing arts activities, expositions, videos and other forms of artistic productions, produces and shares documents in collaboration also with national and international structures and Institutions.”

MeRiFor aims at spreading knowledge and research engagemnts on the following subjects: 1. Mediterranean Migration, 2. History and politics of the Mediterranena, 3. Environment and sustainability in the Mediterranean Coastal areas, 4. Inter-cultural dialogue.

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 NGO promotes: - Intercultural Dialogue. - Social inclusion through Sport Values (in particular we are very careful about people with disability). - Environmental protection and Green Skills as new job opportunities for young european citizens. - Youth/Adult mobility in Europe and the rest of the world. - Offer of trainings, seminars about non-formal education and intercultural youth dialogue.
MVNGO has about 200 worldwide partners, mostly in Europe but as well in Asia, South America and Africa.
Every year MVNGO is involved as sending organization in about 50 European projects with 150 mobilities of young/adult people and organises about 7-8 projects as hosting organisation in Sardinia.

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The Award consists in a competition in show cooking born in 2012 and become, in 2014, itinerant in several Italian regions and has made competitions even in the USA. With its innovative and dynamic formula on tour, it wants to contribute to exalt the socio-cultural value-ness, of the Italianness. The protagonists of the competition are some Chef Women for each competition, selected for curriculum and professional merits. The chefs on competition are engaged in the realization of a dish according to their repertoire in the kitchen following the strict Regulation of the Award. The competition consists in a show cooking with the subsequent tasting of the dishes realized and offered to two Juries, a technical one and an institutional one; the jurors may ask the chefs for questions or explanations and, soon after the tasting, will give an overall judgment according to some pre-fixed criteria. The Award Juries are always made up of personalities from the political, economic, entertainment and socio-cultural national and international world, journalists and food and wine experts. While they are at work in the kitchen or in front of the juries, the competitors describe their dishes underlining the interpretation of the classic recipe, the use of certain ingredients, the recovery of certain flavors and products that make the excellence of the different territories; illustrating their own recipe in the competition, each Chef tells her family and professional history. The competition takes place in some prestigious locations that host the tour stops in the various Italian regions and abroad. Each competition has a MISS CHEF® Winner . The format is further enhanced by an innovative formula complementing the experience MISS CHEF®, moments of culture, entertainment and discussions, cooking demonstrations and conferences may be planned and implemented from time to time for the promotion of excellence and typical manufacturing or territorial peculiarities and, of course, the highlight of the competition which is the MISS CHEF® Award.