Silver Dolphin
CORRADO BEGUINOT- 2012
Engineer - ITALY
For having, in his long career, dedicated his life to scientific research and design experimentation in the themes of territorial urban planning, resulting, at an international level, in the conception and promotion of the European inter-ethnic cabled city. With the Aldo Della Rocca Foundation, he represents the forerunner of the new wired inter-ethnic era as the basis for World Peace in which all the peoples of the earth, fraternally united, will be considered "One People in One City".
Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 3 september 2012
ALESSANDRO ORTIS - 2012
Engineer - ITALY
A professional and a man who has dedicated and continues to dedicate himself, with unwavering commitment, to promoting institutions, bodies and initiatives of particular importance for an ever more advanced collaboration and cohesion between the Mediterranean countries.
Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 21 november 2011
SENEN FLORENSA PALAU - 2011
Director of the European Institute for the Mediterranean
For having contributed, first as Ambassador and then as Director of the European Institute for the Mediterranean in Barcelona, to promoting the values of dialogue and peace in the Euro-Mediterranean region, defending good practices in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.
For this reason, the Fondazione Mediterraneo, with the Accademia del Mediterraneo, awarded Senen Florensa Palau the Mediterranean Award "Silver Dolphin" 2011.
Awarding Ceremony
Barcellona, 07 October 2011
EMANUELE VITTORIO - 2011
Doctor of Dental Medicine
For his action in favour of the common good, through the timely and rigorous exercise of his profession as a doctor-dentist. For his active competence, solidarity and not giving up in the face of difficulties that for others were insurmountable.
His concern for the destitute and his continuous research into cutting-edge medical techniques ensured the resolution of complex problems, restoring dignity and quality of life, with an eye to the most needy.
Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 23 september 2011
BAGNO ELENA of GIOVANNI MORRA - 2011
It was born in Posillipo, where the millennial history of Great Human Cultures has intertwined philosophy with spirituality. Thanks to the active and silent commitment of Giovanni Morra and his children Mario and Antonella, Bagno Elena - with Terme Pausylia - constitutes a unique and precious place for well-being and quality of life: it is the example of a family that believes in the rebirth of Neapolitan entrepreneurship and that, with its dedication to the sea, continues the tradition of bathing establishments on stilts. This meritorious action is an example for the tourist rebirth of Naples and the preservation of the "Sea Resource".
Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 23 september 2011
in memory of GUIDO GRIMALDI - 2011
Founder and President of the Grimaldi Group - ITALY
For having contributed through the diffusion of maritime connections and of the "Motorways of the Sea" - in the Mediterranean and in the World - to promote with farsightedness that "cross-fertilisation of civilisations" which is at the basis of shared development and peace. For this reason, the Fondazione Mediterraneo, together with the Accademia del Mediterraneo, awarded the Mediterranean Award "Silver Dolphin" 2011 to the memory of Guido Grimaldi.
Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 20 may 2011
H.E. Mgr. ROCCO FAVALE - 2010
Bishop of Vallo della Lucania - ITALY
His commitment to promote peace among peoples and strengthen solidarity in Cilento area are fundamental pillars of his action. He has the merit of allowing the realization of the monumental work “Totem for Peace” by Rutino Cathedral.
Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 13 june 2010
SERGIO PIAZZI - 2010
Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean - ITALY
His commitment and passion aiming at strengthening the role of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM) are unanimously recognized. Thanks to his commitment, it has been possible to harmonize the role of the Parliaments of Mediterranean Countries making them accept a shared view, especially about the values and fundamental rights of the human person.
Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 13 june 2010
in memory of BALTASAR PORCEL - 2010
Writer, journalist and literary critic - SPAIN
World-famous writer, acute and determined journalist, in his works Baltasar Porcel has told today’s society with precision and irony. Founder and director of the Catalan Institute of the Mediterranean he has turned his deeply Mediterranean culture into a political action, thanks to which Catalonia, Barcelona and Spain have been able to take on a first-rank role in the Euro-Mediterranean partnership.
Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 13 june 2010
in memory of GENNARO POMPILIO - 2010
President of Vesuvius Tour Operators - ITALY
A man who reminded us that words alone are not enough. His love for Vesuvius, as pioneer of tourism and coordinator of Vesuvius Tour Operators, show us how it is possible to promote peace and mutual respect through positive actions.
Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 4 january 2010
in memory of AHMED JEBLI - 2009
President of the University Cadi Ayyad of Marrakech - MAROCCO
La storia ha conosciuto più di una persona che, sebbene non abbiano avuto una ribalta mediatica, hanno avuto un ruolo straordinario negli eventi che segnano la vita di uno Stato.
History has known more than one person who, though without media renown, have played an extraordinary role in the events that mark the life of a State. Ahmed Jebli belongs to this gallery, for the contribution given to the promotion of knowledge and culture, especially in the academic field. The themes he envisaged have a high vision of education, always overcoming the borders of class and belonging. Ahmed Jebli‘s action falls within this framework, always aiming at understanding the reasons “of the other” and at developing friendship among the peoples of the Mediterranean. He was a reference point for the Fondazione Mediterraneo that wishes to pay a tribute to him by this acknowledgement.
Awarding Ceremony
Marrakech, 4 june 2009
ABDELWAHED RADI - 2007
President of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly and President of the Moroccan Parliament - MAROCCO
He is a great supporter of the Barcelona Declaration and, in particular, of the necessity to strength Euro-Mediterranean relationships. A defender of democracy, he voted his life to create a new humanism in order to transform the Mediterranean, through the promotion of dialogue, into a democratic area of knowledge and mutual respect.
Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 5 july 2007
in memory of MANUEL VAZQUEZ MONTALBAN - 2004
Writer - SPAGNA
A great Spanish writer, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán told the story of today’s society with irony and acumen through his main character: Pepe Carvalho. He was among the first to join the Fondazione Mediterraneo and this acknowledgment is not meant to be an institutional award, but rather a great warm remembrance from his “Mediterranean family”.
Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 4 january 2004
RAFFAELE LA CAPRIA - 2003
Writer - ITALY
His work represents a long meditation on the missed occasion of the single being and of the entire history, also an emblem of the Mediterranean, which from the missed occasioons is still tragically constructing its present.
Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 28 may 2003
in memory of Federico Bugno - 2003
Journalist and writer - ITALY
Federico Bugno produced some of the greatest journalistic pieces with his strong reportages, showing that in order not to succumb to globalisation, journalism had to be “democratised”. He belongs to one of the last “big ones” who flies high; from Tiananmen Square to the Berlin Wall and to Sarajevo.
Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 4 june 2003
in memory of Izet Sarajlic' - 2003
Poet - BOSNIA
Izet Sarajlic' was one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. He was born into an old Muslim family in Bosnia from which he learned the inalienable values of friendship, respect, and dialogue between cultures and civilisations: the Sarajlic' were a family that knew no grudges. He spent most of his life in Sarajevo, staying even during the siege of the city, for almost four years: the Bosnian capital broke the sad record of the century by becoming the 'Capital of Sorrow'. Izet stayed there: until the end. He could have left the city, but he did not want to. He was wounded not only in his soul. He lost two sisters, whose affection had saved his life several times. "What will I do now," he said, "I am used to being a brother". He was the 'voice of Sarajevo' and never stopped writing, continuing to wonder if it was of any use after all that had happened. It was all she could do. During the siege of Sarajevo, his former friends forgot Izet and his voice that turned into a cry: only a few, like the poet Slobodan Markovic', visited his fragile sleep shaken by machine-gun fire. Izet gave and lost more than anyone else. At the 'commemoration' of the thousandth day of the siege of Sarajevo, only his gaze communicated: words were superfluous. The Fondazione Laboratorio Mediterraneo published 'The Book of Farewells' in 1997 and Izet, on the first copy, wrote just one big word, next to a drawing of a flower: 'Thank you'. Today we want to remember and thank a great poet for his teaching and his work, a man who reminded us that literature alone is not enough. We must promote peace and mutual respect with concrete actions.
Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 4 june 2003
alla memoria di MARCELLO GIGANTE - 2002
Professor, expert in papyrus - ITALY
In the transformation period started after the second world war, Marcello Gigante, Iike Carducci in his time, gave voice to the relation between ancient culture and modern conscience, reconsidering the text of Herodotus and interpreting the historical lines of the classic world in the mark of the Nomos Basileus, the sovereignty of the law. Translator of Diogenes Laertius and Director of the collections “La Scuola di Platone” and “La scuola di Epicuro”, he deepened the study of ancient philosophy, in particular of Epicurus and Philodemus of Gadara, through the study of Herculaneum papyri. His essays on Leopardi, Settembrini, Quasimodo and on the classical culture of the period between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are focused on the relation between ancient and modern time. He was editor of “Parola del Passato”, director of the “Studi di Filologia Classica”, National President of the Italian Association of Classical Culture. His publications, more than 700, have always contained highly significant descriptions and views. Among his works, it is worth remembering: “Le Elleniche di Ossirinco”, “Nomos Basileus”, “Civiltà delle forme letterarie nell’antica Pompei”, “Classico e mediazione”.
Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 4 january 2002
in memory of PAOLO BUFALINI - 2002
Senator of the Italian Republic - ITALY
History has known more than one personalities who, though without media renown, have played an extraordinary role in the political events that mark the life of a State. Paolo Bufalini belongs to this gallery: for the contribution given during the 30’s to the creation of one of the most important and active anti-fascist groups, the Roman one, also because he gathered young intellectuals who later on played an important role on the political and intellectual scene of the post-war period, for the contribution given to the Italian resistance in Yugoslavia; as animator, after the liberation, of the Autonomist Southern Movement, in Sicily and in the South, struggling for Agrarian Reform and modernization of the Country; as a strong and wise mind In the action for the renewal of P.C.I., the unity of the left party, the convergences among all democratic forces. He dealt with all these issues with a high vision of politics, always overcoming the class and party borders, like a Cavour-style statesman. This is the framework in which falls the exceptional work made by Bufalini in drafting a foreign policy of détente, of understanding of the other’s reasons, of friendship among the peoples of the Mediterranean; the activities aiming at guaranteeing religious peace and Improving relations between the Italian State and the Vatican, through the renewal of the Concordat. And he did so as a laic, persuaded that only a lay State and the respect of the religious conscience of the Individual and of the communities can defeat the fundamentalism that has blooded the word for centuries, until today. Bufalini was also a serious specialist in Greek and Latin and a careful and acute translator of Horace, thus telling us that the mingling of culture and politics is vital and necessary to make noble and effective public commitment, to improve one’s country and the mutual knowledge of peoples.
Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 4 january 2002