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The WEM Foundation is a non-profit cultural and scientific organisation (association) with a managing committee of seven members from Europe, the Arab World and Subsahara Africa. All permanent staff members work in an honorary capacity. The WEM has no regular budgetary resources apart from project fundings by German cultural and scientific foundations (in 2011: € 38.000 from Fritz Thyssen Foundation and Allianz Cultural Foundation). WEM staff and WEM members organize conferences with participants from Europe, the Arab World (Maghreb) and Subsahara Africa in Germany, France, Tunisia, Morocco and (in 2013) in Senegal. Main partner of WEM is the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), Stuttgart und Berlin. The cooperation with other partners depend on the character of projects which are to be realized.
Exchange and partial integration of cultural knowledge of Europe, the Southern Mediterranean countries and Subsahara Africa; creation of new contents and structures of knowledge by uniting elements from the ‘North’ and the ‘South’ in a ‘Euro-Mediterranean Space of Knowledge’ where – to give an example – you cannot deal with political theory in history without mentioning Machiavelli as well as Ibn Khaldûn; a main objective of WEM is to help to develop a ‘euro-mediterranean’ consciousness of mutuality, solidarity and unity.
The WEM staff as well as WEM members organize conferences with participants from Europe, the Arab World (especially the Maghreb) and Subsahara Africa. A concrete project is a virtual map of places which incarnate the intensive cultural exchange between Europa, the Southern Mediterranean World and Subsahara Africa, for example Tangiers, Granada, Weimar, Alexandria, Timbuktu. Another project is a German/European – Arabic dictionary of cultural and political key words with commentaries on the culturally specific semantics of each word.
The WEM Foundation could help to intensify the contacts of the German ALF Network with interested persons in the southern Mediterranean area. And it could help to deepen the relations of the Network to universities and schools.
The WEM Foundation wants to join the ALF network because it wants to support the mission of the ALF Network and because it is interested in new partners to cooperate with.