20 rue Montplaisir
13020 Marseille
France
- Youth and education
The Beit Project France is a branch of The Beit Project Association. The central team is composed by 6 people. The Beit Project association aims at transforming heritage sites into educational platforms for education toward diversity and inclusion, fighting all types of discrimination. The project is ephemerally present in Paris, Roma, Brussels, Ixelles, Berlin, London, Lodz, Marseille, Sofia, Bucharest, Tangier, Skopje, Nice and Athens. It creates an open school in the middle of the city, nomadic school which converts urban spaces into profound learning and empowerment places.
The Beit Project and The Beit Project France carry out cultural and educational programs in France and in several countries in Europe to promote dialogue and tolerance. And create more inclusive societies.
Through our new project – The Boat Project – we aim to develop cooperation between mediterranean countries and populations to provide common responses to contemporary issues in the Mediterranean. It tries to make the sea a vector of connection and sharing between the different shores by developing in each port-city intercultural activities on different themes.
The Boat Project is a project proposing to make our common environment, the Mediterranean, an essential element of education for living together discovering the wealth of diversity from an innovative perspective. At the heart of the project : a boat, a sailboat, with on board a crew formed by young adults recruited all around the Mediterranean. Starting from Marseilles, the boat crosses the sea and create a link from North to South throughout a nomadic school : Marseilles, Tangier, Barcelona, Algiers, Genoa, Tunis, Athens and Palermo. The activities developed in each port aim to develop understanding and cooperation between young audiences from different Mediterranean port cities, through the "Compagnons de la Méditerranée".
The objectives of the project are to :
- bring together young people from different parts of each local societies in the Mediterranean and open the dialogue,
- create a link between mediterranean shores and create cooperation to provide a response to the contemporary challenges,
- forge connections between cities, associations and schools from all around the Mediterranean in order to raise awareness on the valuation of diversity and the cooperation necessity.
The Beit Project France is a structure mainly created to carry the Boat Project in the Mediterranean. We are currently developing partnerships in all the regions visited by the boat. Several foundations and institutional actors are already supporting the project : Matanel Foundation, EMID (the Euro-Mediterranean Institute for Dialogue between Civilizations), DIMED (Délégation interministérielle pour la Méditerranée), MuCem, institutional actors in Marseille and in the South of France...
We can bring to the Network a new project that pursues the Anna Lindh Foundation objectives and share a innovating pedagogical methodology.
We want to meet the Anna Lindh Foundation and join the ALF Network to create links with other organizations guided by the same objectives and strengthen the project in the Mediterranean by meeting others actors that know better than us the environment of this new project. We want to open the association to new perspectives et opportunities.