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

Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, occupied Palestinian territory, Syria, Tunisia as well as all 27 EU member states and remaining members of the Union for the Mediterranean, making a total of 43 countries

Timeframe: 2012-2014 (third phase)

Budget: EU contribution: €10 Million. EU Member States contribution: €6 million

 Objectives

 
Working towards its overall aim of promoting understanding and inter-cultural dialogue in the region, the Anna Lindh Foundation (ALF) is guided in its current phase by three specific objectives: i) to improve mutual perceptions and promote mutual understanding; ii) to promote inter-cultural dialogue at grass roots level through the implementation of civil society initiatives; iii) to reinforce the ALF networks of civil society organisations, ensuring that the actions of their members converge towards common objectives.
 
Launched in 2005, the Anna Lindh Foundation is the first institution to be jointly created and co-financed by all member countries of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.  In 2008, the Paris Summit launching the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) spelled out in its final declaration that the ALF would contribute to the cultural dimension of the UfM.
 
The current phase builds on the achievements of the previous phase.
 
What does it do?
 
The Foundation functions as a ‘network of networks’ with a national network in each of the 43 member countries. It facilitates and supports the action of civil society in the following priority fields:
·         Culture and Creativity
·         Education and Intercultural Learning
·         Cities and Spaces of Citizenship
·         Media and Public Opinion
 
In each priority field, the Foundation develops large-scale programmes in collaboration with international partners, and grants support for projects that bring together members of its 43 Civil Society Networks through its open Calls for Proposals. These projects represent the main instrument to develop intercultural dialogue at different social levels, targeting youth and students, teachers, children and those more in need of education in diversity, tolerance and intercultural dialogue.
  
The ALF also assumes a monitoring task on the evolution of values and intercultural trends in the region. It has also created its own annual Journalism Prize and a Euro-Mediterranean Award for Dialogue between Cultures.
 

Actions in brief

 

  • Conducts comparative analyses of the evolution of perceptions, values and behaviours in the region
  • Produces a report on Intercultural Dialogue and disseminates among ALF members
  • Organises seminars and education training in intercultural dialogue; organises the Euromed Journalist Award, and a translation programme: acts as observatory of translation in the region
  • Launches a Call for project grants – long term, short term and thematic
  • Organises the Anna Lindh Forum
  • Coordinates 43 networks and gathers together over 3,000 member organisations
  • Organises common actions for its networks, provides training and tools to improve their quality and impact, promotes network participation in Foundation activities, and offers services such as fundraising support, partnership matching, contact meetings, etc. to make national networks more effective

 

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EU Cooperation with Syria is currently suspended due to the political situation in the country; however, since in principle Syria is eligible for cooperation under the ENPI, activities may be taken up again once the situation improves.

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