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Anna Lindh Forum 2013 to take place in Marseille, European Capital of Culture

08-06-2012

The second edition of the Anna Lindh Forum, representing the largest civil society gathering since the Arab uprisings, with over a thousand people expected to get together to share a road map for the promotion of intercultural dialogue and citizenship in the Euro-Mediterranean region, will take place from 4 to 7 April 2013, in the French city of Marseille which is the European Capital of Culture 2013.
 
The President of the Anna Lindh Foundation (ALF), André Azoulay, signed last week a Memoradum of Understanding for collaborating in the organisation of the next Anna Lindh Forum with Jean-François Chougnet, Director General of Marseille-Provence 2013, the body in charge of the European Capital of Culture 2013.
 
“The Anna Lindh Forum will contribute to the European Cultural year bringing to Marseille a Mediterranean and civil society dimension,” said Azoulay, adding: "The Forum will be a major civil society gathering for facing the challenges of dialogue, cooperation and citizenship in the Euro-Mediterranean Region."
 
The previous Forum was held in Barcelona in March 2010 and represented the first civil society gathering of this kind in the EuroMed region. The conclusions of the Barcelona Forum contributed to the development of the new triennial programme of the Anna Lindh Foundation (2012-2014), that focus on the promotion of intercultural dialogue in the Euro-Mediterranean region through a ‘4D’ strategy combining intercultural dialogue, diversity, democracy and development.
 
This strategy aims at reinforcing the mission of Anna Lindh Foundation in the valuing of diversity, the promotion of social participation, democracy building and pluralistic societies, and the favouring of human development and fundamental rights, in order to build a long lasting Euro-Mediterranean partnership based on shared values and objectives. 
 
The Anna Lindh Foundation for Inter-Cultural Dialogue promotes knowledge, mutual respect and inter-cultural dialogue between the people of the Euro-Mediterranean region, working through a network of more than 3,000 civil society organisations in 43 countries. Its budget is co-funded by the EU (€7 million) and the EU member states (€6 million). (EU Neighbourhood Info)
 
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