Stazione Marittima, Autorità Portuale di Venezia, Fabbricato 255, 30135 Venezia
Venezia
Italy
- Democracy and community development
- Environment/Sustainable development
- Heritage
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.
Activities focus on the Mediterranean-Black Sea area that has common historical traditions ( for example the Mediterranean basin was called also White Sea in contraposition with the Black Sea) made up of political, social, economic and cultural meetings but also fights among different civilizations (in fact the area gathers also the members of the 3 main monotheistic religions.
Actually this area is crossed by a number of political, social, economic and cultural problems of complex and difficult solution. But all the Mediterranean-Black Sea citizens recognize indistinctively the need to solve the environmental menaces and those related to the sustainable development issues: in fact these ones involve both the southern and the northern river of the Mediterranean-Black Sea and are unequivocally linked to the common destine of the citizens living in these countries.