Organización Carta Mediterránea

National Network
Spain
Address

CALLE LUIS VÉLEZ DE GUEVARA, 2, 5º Dcha
28012 MADRID
Spain

Telephone
+34 91 369 45 98
Telephone (other)
+34 91 369 45 98
Fax
+34 91 429 37 81
E-Mail
secretaria@cartamediterranea.org
Mobile Phone
+34 606 39 20 08
Website
http://www.cartamediterranea.org
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1994
Fields of Activity
  1. International/Cultural relations
  2. Research
General Information
The General Assembly is made up of over 350 members, coming from 38 different countries. The Board of Directors is made up of 18 members. There are 7 persons holding technical posts, 2 persons on the permanent Secretariat staff and volunteer workers. Activities are funded by public and private grants and membership fees. Most of the actions carried out are seminars, courses, research projects and publications. Organization’s main partners are both public and private entities, such as FHIMADES, Fundación Tres Culturas, Instituto Ciencia y Sociedad, Asociación Cultura Pro Naciones Unidas, the Spanish Diplomatic School, the European Commission Offices in Spain, the Arab League.
Mission and Objectives

The mission of CARTMED, defined in the final text of the Mediterranean Charter, is the promotion of dialogue and cooperation among the peoples of the Mediterranean region, with the aim of achieving peace, stability and security enhancing inter-regional relations, sustainable development of the developing countries and democracy and human rights.
The objectives of CARTMED are, as a civil society initiative, to develop useful knowledge resources for the achieving of the aim, to promote intercultural contacts and relations, and diffusion and sensitizing of the civil society of the region and those relevant agents for the development of the Mediterranean region.

Main Projects / Activities

For 2006:
Publication on research on town planning and the insertion of immigrants in Madrid, El urbanismo ante el encuentro de las culturas. La inserción socioespacial del inmigrante en la comunidad de Madrid. ISBN: 84-451-2812-4.
2nd publication on town planning and immigration.
A CD on Europe – Mediterranean cooperation and regional development, technical documents also included in a book by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In collaboration, Transmisión de valores de convivencia entre civilizaciones, course on coexistence values transmission among civilizations.
Course on Methodology, Projects and Opportunities in the Euromediterranean Cooperation, was hold in Melilla (Spain) and Nador (Morocco) and publication.
Seminar on Co-development: New Actors, New Markets.
Seminar on Alliance of Civilizations, Civilizaciones y culturas: del choque a la alianza

Contact (1) Full Name
CRISTINA PEREIRO BARRUETA
Head of the organisation
CARLOS BRUQUETAS, PRESIDENT