Promoting mutual understanding, cooperation and intercultural dialogue are crucial to ensure the fruitful and sustainable development of our region. The current pandemic we are living in and the recent racist acts of violence unfortunately testify that promoting dialogue to fight against prejudices is urgent. In this sense, the Anna Lindh Foundation and UNIMED recently launched a call “#Covid-19: Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue and Cooperation must continue” aimed at gathering voices of all stakeholders (universities, government, international organizations…) to invest more in the promotion of Euro-Mediterranean cooperation.

This webinar is organized in collaboration with the Anna Lindh Foundation, Fundación Tres Culturas and UNIMED who, each one at its own level, works in favour of intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding. It will be the occasion to learn more on intercultural trends and social changes, to talk about intercultural cities and share ideas on how to favor tolerance and better understanding.

This webinar will offer ideas to the academic community on how to integrate further intercultural dialogue in their academic life to contribute to one of the most important UNIMED priorities: building a new Mediterrean Generation.

Programme

15.00: Introduction and moderation by Anne-Laurence Pastorini, UNIMED project manager

15.05: Welcome speech by Hmaid Ben Aziza, UNIMED Secretary general, and by Nabil Al Sharif, Executive Director of Anna Lindh Foundation

15.15: Presentation of the Intercultural Trends and Social Change in the Euro-Mediterranean region, by Eleonora Insalaco, Head of Operations and Intercultural Research, Anna Lindh Foundation

15.35: Rescaling Mediterranean Migration Governance: centrality of intercultural cities relations for region-making, by Pr. Ricard Zapata, Full Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF-Barcelona).

15.55: “Moroccan immigration in Andalusia and the importance of intercultural dialogue”, by Germinal Gil, Head of the Dept. Dialogue among Mediterranean Cultures, Civilizations and Religions, The Three Cultures Foundation of the Mediterranean.

16.15: Conclusion by Hmaid Ben Aziza, UNIMED Secretary general

16.30: Questions and answers

17:00: End of Webinar

Translation English – French available