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"Un accordo tra l'università di Napoli e 11 tra le più importanti università del Mediterraneo e del Medio Oriente che punta allo scambio di docenti e studenti in tutte le aree accademiche". Così Gaetano Manfredi, rettore dell'Università Federico II di Napoli descrive la creazione del Muna, Mediterranean and Middle East University Network Agreement, sancito a Napoli al termine della due giorni di lavori organizzati dall'ateneo federiciano.
L'evento, di grande rilievo internazionale, nasce dall'esigenza di dare una sistemazione formale e organica ai tanti scambi di docenti, ricercatori e studenti già in atto tra l'ateneo partenopeo e le università del nord Africa, del Medio Oriente e dei Balcani. La nascita delle rete di atenei è sancita dalla presenza a Napoli di rettori e delegati delle Università di Mohammed V di Rabat e Moulay Ismail di Meknés, Hassan II di Casablanca (Marocco), Monastir (Tunisia), Pharos di Alexandria (Egitto), Saint Joseph di Beirut (Libano), Albanian University di Tirana (Albania), Nouakchott (Mauritania), Badji Mokhtar di Annaba (Algeria), Cairo University del Cairo (Egitto), Libanese University (Libano).

One of the most important activities of the Municipality is the so called “social financial statement”, an instrument to share with the community the results of the administration’s work and public spending.
Furthermore, it manages many cultural and social activities, basically through the public Library: important exhibitions, seasonal celebrations, concerts, cineforum ext.
At the moment, it is preparing and developing international projects on environment and on cultural initiatives together with European partners.

The International Projects Area offers specialised support to all the departments of the Municipality dealing in particular with funding applications as well as the planning and management of European projects and international cooperation projects. It is composed of experienced project and accounting managers. At the moment, the office is coordinating many EU projects in several fields: IST, culture, environment, e-government, sustainable and vocational tourism, urban development, education, immigration, unaccompanied minors, social integration etc. In 2005, the office has been involved into 30 projects, supporting different Departments of the Municipality (Social Services, Environment, Information Systems, Culture, etc.). Among these, four are co-ordinated, at EU level, by the Municipality.
Main Projects and Activities
Activities focus on European projects (social inclusion, citizenship, socio-labour integration of asylum seekers, socio-labour inclusion of unaccompanied minor migrants, sensibilization on the themes of social exclusion)

Projets de formation et échange dans le cadre du Programme Jeunesse ; participation et citoyenneté active, expression artistique (musique, théâtre, arts figuratifs, etc.) surtout avec les jeunes ; Agenda 21 ; valorisation des ressources locales et tourisme responsable ; jumelages et échanges avec municipalités d’autres Pays.

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The Municipality of Mazara del Vallo was partner, besides Finland, Hungary, Romania and Spain in a project called “AGRINET” within the Ecos-Ouverture community programme in the years of 1996 and ’97.AGRINET was focused on rural tourism with special regard to farm tourism. Farm tourism is a non-traditional form of tourism, not addressed to the masses, but at the same time widespread, showing respect for the environmental heritage, the search for quietness and countryside traditions. In 1998 the administration was partner in the project “Propart” within the Ecos-Ouverture programme focused on the creation of a network between Administrations and industries in order to favour cooperation and industrial partnerships between Italy, Marocco and Tunisia.Within the community programme Life-Nature ’99 Mazara del Vallo got financed a project which regards the “Reclamation and Environmental Remediation of the Capo Feto Biotope”. Since the year 2000 the reserve has been proclaimed “Biotope of international interest”. The objective is to show to the public, in the future, a very interesting damp zone which contains a very rare flora and fauna but, also, to give a tourist importance. In the same year another project called “Le città del mare – Circuito dei Borghi Marinari (The cities of the sea - the circuit of the fishing suburbs)” has been financed thanks to the ERSF. The cultural tourism beginning from a specific theme "The cities of the sea – The Circuit of the fishing suburbs", the activity of exploitation of the tourist and cultural sites, is organized according to cultural and thematic criterions and of marketing of the single city and the destination in its complex, defined as whole of visit places participating to a circuit.Considering its nature, it is a planning document which defines, in specific terms, the guide lines for the development of the territory and it establishes the same concept of itinerary, fixing rules for the qualified tourist fruition of the cultural patrimony. The project will, therefore, see this area of the Mediterranean object of a careful operation of territorial marketing, aimed atdiscovering and studying in communicative terms, all the wealth inside, from those more easily visible, to those, above all, which are actually in a potential state.Thanks to a special National Fund another project called “Giardino dell’Emiro (The Emir’s garden)” has been financed. The project foresees,on the one side the environmental restoration of the Mediterranean vegetation, from the other the recovery of the ancient caves of tufo (stone) and the restoration of the paleo-christian cave, being in the past a burial. The project has a strong tourist value, considering that facilities for the reception of the tourists are foreseen.In 2003 a project of twinning called ”Euromediterranean – Culture, economy and development in the vivacity of the peoples” was financed by the European Commission and realised in Mazara del Vallo. The event was devoted to the principal themes about balanced development of the maritime cities which lean out on the Mediterranean, with the finality to create a moment of meeting to exchange best practices and to prepare a preliminary draft for future partnership in a Europe more and more widened. The partners had been Spain, Greece, Malta and Tunisia.In the same year a cooperation project with Tunisia had been financed called “Proche” and in 2005 the second part had been financed. In the year 2004/05 Mazara del Vallo was partner in a Interreg III b Medocc project called “Marimed” managed by the Region Emilia Romagna. In the year 2007 the Municipality of Mazara del Vallo took part in a project called THON.DOC within the programme Interreg IIIb Medocc managed by the prefecture of Heraklion (Greece). Besides Italy the other partners are from Portugal and Spain.

Our services provide: Actions aimed making aware of EU topics;
Organization of meetings, conferences and workshops; editing and distribution of a periodical Newsletter about EU funding opportunities; Project formulation and editing in the framework of EU Calls for Proposals;
Technical assistance to the Municipality Departments and local organisations for the management of financed projects; Partner search;
Activation of relationships with the DGs of the European Commission and National Agencies; Participation to “City Networks”;
Capacity training for administrative personnel.

Our youth work is dedicated toward skills development for practical applications in the workforce. To this end, our work is focused on acquiring skills - young people for enhancing their employability and entrepreneurship, and youth workers, educators, trainers and youth programming managers for professional development and to improve the craft of teaching. As an art-focused NGO, we specialize in training for art production – lithography, silk screening, etching, etc. – that can be used in employment. We collaborate with formal education (i.e. schools, high schools and universities) and non-formal learning environments (i.e. NGOs and public bodies) to teach groups at our facilities in the Urbino countryside, where we partner with a local agrotourism operation for room and board during a group’s mobility projects.

PERFORMING ARTS PRODUCTIONS:
a) Festivals and concerts seasons;
b) Concerts;
c) Music theatre, chamber operas, scenic oratorios;
d) Theatre performances and scenic adaptations of classical texts (in Latin language too);
e) Mise-en-espace and contemporary theatre;
f) Art and performing projects.
II. DIDACTICAL AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES;
II. COMMUNICATION, PROMOTION, SPONSORING AND FUNDRAISING ACTIVITIES;
III. EVENTS; IV. RESEARCH PROJECTS
VII. SOCIAL ACTIVITY

From its foundation, the association has promoted different collaborations and cultural exchange programs with other national and international organizations, private or public institutions, in Italy and abroad, receiving the sponsoring and patronage of many local and national institutions: ministries and local authorities, public and private institutions, foreign and international organizations, not-for-profit organizations
among the active partnerships we mention: TIT The International Theatre, Vivarium novum Academy, The Pontifical Salesian University of Rome UPS, Villa Valmarana, Collina della Pace Volunteer Association
ACTIVITY
• Productions in the performing arts, such as festivals and concerts (classic and jazz, opera), music theatre, chamber operas, scenic oratorios, classical theatre in Latin, mise-en-espace and readings, contemporary theatre, interdisciplinary projects
• Awards (drama and performing arts disciplines)
• Researches and publications
• Audio e video recording (CD and video, docu-film)
• Consulting (management and administration, promotion and communication for culture and performing arts, sponsoring and fundraising)
• Training for children and adults (M.Th.I. is active in promoting the theatre and music culture through integrated theatre workshops with pupils and students, who can in this way become protagonists of the artistic product, giving new life to classical or contemporary texts and discovering the linguistic and expressive richness of a literary and theatrical universal heritage)
• Events and interdisciplinary projects (M.Th.I. cooperates with organizations and individual professionals to provide original and sophisticated tailor-made programs for private and corporate events. It can provide outstanding music with singers and piano, full period-instrument orchestra or ensembles, classical/contemporary dance and/or new circus performances, theatre original and/or repertoire plays of all age and style, in costumes and in different languages - Italian, English, Latin -, giving clients an opportunity to hear, see and meet world-class young and famous artists in intimate, traditional or unconventional settings. Some possibilities may include gala dinners, receptions with musical/dance interludes; private concerts or performances, or any other special and exclusive event)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

• Listing in the census book published in occasion of the 1st Bazar Opera Festival (meeting of Experimental Company of Chamber Music Theatre and New Languages) presented at the Goldoni Theatre of Florence, 28 September 2002. Promoting committee Region of Tuscany, Orchestra of Tuscany, Representation of the European Commission in Italy.
• Accredited by the Region Lazio: included in the public listing of istitutions, non-profit and private organizations of the free time sector, with D.D. n. D2325 of 30 May 2005.
• Private audience with Pope Benedetto XVI, in occasion of the 48th Certamen Vaticanum of the Latinitas Vaticana Foundation, Vatican City, 28 November 2005.
• Accredited by the IX District / Rome Municipality – included in the public listing of non-profit organizations, with registration n. CI/2009/4734 – Register of Cultural Associations of the VII Municipality, protocol CI / 2017/0147986
• ISPA fellowship 2010. M.Th.I. received the fellowship for the ISPA annual meetings in New York (12-14 January 2010) and Zagreb (3-5 June 2010).
• Accredited by the Province of Rome, register of institutions, associations and private bodies operating in the leisure sector (March 2010)
• Gold Formica Award 2012. Assigned on January 26, 2013, from the Forum of the Third Sector Lazio for the artistic activity with social value realized particularly in the suburbs of Rome.
• Accredited by the Register of the Municipality of Rome (call 2016 / prot. 5584 – score 90/100)
• Medal of the President of the Republic to the 7th Festival Cerealia 2017
• Medal of the President of the Republic to the 8th Festival Cerealia 2018
• Medal of the President of the Republic to the 9th Festival Cerealia 2019
• Medal of the President of the Republic to the 10th Festival Cerealia 2020
• Medal of the President of the Republic to the 11th Festival Cerealia 2021