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Main scope of Fondazione Leone Moressa is studying the economy of immigration. The foundation aims at the knowlegde diffusion on this topic, at promoting the value od cultural difference and identifying integration pathwyas.

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The Fondazione is dedicated to the realisation of a Greater Mediterranean, a concept both historical and strategic. It works in cooperation with the countries of the Middle East, the Gulf and the Black Sea in order to promote international understanding through the promotion of awareness of the social, cultural, and self-identification realities that exist in the Greater Mediterranean, encouraging closer interaction and highlighting shared interests in respect of fundamental human rights and equality between the genders. In particular, it develops human resources and intellectual cooperation in multidisciplinary fields.
During the last twenty years the Fondazione acted as an organization that is free from bureaucracy and in which every resource is invested directly in the field: the great number of partnership accords signed, and of partnerships with civil society and with institutions active in different projects - together with the actions realized (more than 3000 events in 41 Countries) - are indications of the high impact reached and of the concrete results achieved.

Mondinsieme has been founded in Reggio Emilia, a city selected by the Council of Europe to take part in the Intercultural Cities programme, both for its intercultural policies and for the high presence of migrants, about the 18% of the total population.
The Centre promotes the intercultural dialogue, the reciprocal exchange, and the participation of foreigners and Italians in a process of inclusion and mutual empowerment. Mondinsieme is convinced that understanding and meeting each other prevents situation of cultural marginalization and the rise of identity radicalism, as well as fostering intercultural citizenship.
Thus, it operates for a shared integration among Italians and foreigners with the role of Institutions as values-based mediators, to enhance intercultural relations and the diversity advantage.
Mondinsieme focuses on people’s lifes and experiences and it strongly believes that the one who migrates is not only a person in need, but he/she is someone who can give something to the society. This is the reason why Mondinsieme looks at integration as a bidirectional process in a cross-cultural perspective. In this sense, mediating means fostering the construction of a new intercultural identity in the society, starting from what people already share. Consequently, following an developmental approach, the cultural diversity is perceived as a value, and mediation becomes a relationship-related necessity.
The main mission of the Centre is being a laboratory of best practices, a space of active citizenship, and a network of connections, skills, relationships at the disposals for winning the challenges of integration.
Its goals are: fostering a society based on cultural pluralism; supporting foreign citizens participation and inclusion in cultural and social activities; preventing and fighting against social and cultural discriminations; developing the intercultural competences of decision makers, community leaders, public administration and private sector’s professionals; offering opportunities of intercultural trainings.

ondinsieme has been founded in Reggio Emilia, a city selected by the Council of Europe to take part in the Intercultural Cities programme, both for its intercultural policies and for the high presence of migrants, about the 18% of the total population.
The Centre promotes the intercultural dialogue, the reciprocal exchange, and the participation of foreigners and Italians in a process of inclusion and mutual empowerment. Mondinsieme is convinced that understanding and meeting each other prevents situation of cultural marginalization and the rise of identity radicalism, as well as fostering intercultural citizenship.
Thus, it operates for a shared integration among Italians and foreigners with the role of Institutions as values-based mediators, to enhance intercultural relations and the diversity advantage.
Mondinsieme focuses on people’s lifes and experiences and it strongly believes that the one who migrates is not only a person in need, but he/she is someone who can give something to the society. This is the reason why Mondinsieme looks at integration as a bidirectional process in a cross-cultural perspective. In this sense, mediating means fostering the construction of a new intercultural identity in the society, starting from what people already share. Consequently, following an developmental approach, the cultural diversity is perceived as a value, and mediation becomes a relationship-related necessity.
The main mission of the Centre is being a laboratory of best practices, a space of active citizenship, and a network of connections, skills, relationships at the disposals for winning the challenges of integration.
Its goals are: promoting intercultural dialogue and fostering a society based on cultural pluralism in full compliance of human rights; supporting active participation and inclusion of cultural minorities and all the people, Italians and foreigners, in cultural, economic, political, and social activities of the city; preventing and fighting any kind of racism, discrimination, and exclusion; preventing and fighting against any kind of cultural and religious extremism; advocating women initiatives and cooperation in intercultural perspective; enhancing the intercultural métissage of youngsters with Italian and foreign origins; improving intercultural management skills of decision makers, community leaders, operators, and workers of public and private bodies or companies; increasing the value and the impact of diversity and narrative capital due to migration and global mobility.

Fondazione Nazionale Carlo Collodi has the following main statuary aims:
- spread and make known around the world the works of Collodi, in particular The Adventures of Pinocchio;
- collect and organize Italian and Foreign editions of Carlo Collodi’s works, as well as any document that is suitable and useful to better understanding this Author, in a library;
- point out the value of the works by Carlo Collodi by cultural manifestations, awards, meetings, conferences, exhibitions, publications, competitions, etc;
- encourage writers to produce works for children;
- establish a research centre on children’s literature in Collodi;
- take care of, improve, enlarge, make the most of Parco di Pinocchio (Pinocchio Park).

Allo scopo di espletare le mansioni suddette la Fondazione istituirà un Centro Studi, organizzato in settori o gruppi di lavoro divisi per aree tematiche, che costituisca una biblioteca e un archivio e promuova e organizzi convegni, corsi, seminari, borse di studio e ogni altra attività idonea al perseguimento degli scopi istituzionali.

Education, cultural heritage, International /Cultural Relations, research, Youth and Education

The Centre of Music Antica Pietà de'Turchini is a non-profit association founded in 1997 to give form to the project of artistic valorization and inter-disciplinary research dedicated to the musical and theatrical Neapolitan patrimony of the XVI-XVIII century and its reflection on contemporary European musical production.
In 2010 the association transformed itself into a private foundation that proposes itself even more as an aggregation pole, of productive exchange between musicians, students, and researchers who continue to defend a positive image of Neapolitan culture worldwide. It has started an intense training program for young musicians and singers that work along the guidance of prestigious musical directors from all over Europe.
Faithful to its mission the Foundation dedicates a special attention to the research and valorization of the great Neapolitans musicians of the XVII/XVIII/XIX centuries. The most original aspect that characterizes the Foundation is the capacity to conjugate execution and staging along with the research and scientific reflection.
In addition a double editorial series has been produced of partitures and plays with more than flattering success as the last book dedicated to the Neapolitan History of Music and performances of the seventeenth century.
The Foundation adheres to EMW (European Mozart Ways); the Da Ponte Network; the Federculture; and to Sistema Med (Sistema Muscia e Danza in Campania).