Mediterranea starts again. | Expedition 2021-2023
Are you ready to go? Ready! Mediterranea starts again. The expedition of Progetto Mediterranea returns to the sea on May 1st, for a new three-year period 2021-2023 of navigation, study and research, and documents. Through meeting, study, thought, ideas, exchange, values, sources, origins, people, [...]
A United Mediterranean is not an utopia
(by Simone Perotti) Years ago, I was in charge as General Manager of a subsidiary of a USA company. I met periodically my colleagues, and all the time we had to face an apparently unsolvign problem, it was the Spanish, or the Greek, or the [...]
Mediterranean: its flag is born
Proposal No. 3 is the Mediterranean Flag. Authors: Salvatore Scollo, Hushmand Toluian and Guglielmo Persano Votes: 1797/5803 Our Press Release: The public consultation to choose the Mediterranean flag ended today at 14:00 Italian time. The initiative "A flag for the Mediterranean" was conceived by the [...]
A flag for the Mediterranean: the selection begins
(by Simone Perotti)The First Phase, that of the collection of flag proposals arrived from all those who participated in the public initiative of the Progetto Mediterranean "A flag for the Mediterranean", ended tonight. The team that worked on the anonymous reception and cataloging of the [...]
A flag for the Mediterranean. Let”s draw our flag!
Public initiative conceived and promoted by Associazione Progetto Mediterranea for the creation of a flag for the Mediterranean subcontinent. Deadline: June 15, 2020 Meaning and values The Mediterranean looks like a map of fractures, today more than ever. Yet: “(…) although the Mediterranean is disorder, [...]
The Progetto Mediterranea enjoys the honorary patronage of the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and for Tourism.
During the 6 years of sailing in the Mediterranean, Progetto Mediterranea has carried out a large number of meetings with intellectuals of the Mediterranean region, activists and representatives of civil society, experts of the sea and Mediterranean culture, journalists, musicians and each representative deemed suitable by [...]
Progetto Mediterranea. Final event in Genoa. The program for the arrival of Mediterranea.
Saturday, October 12th between 12:00 and 15:00 at the mooring in front of the GALATA - Museo del Mare, arrival of a "Mediterranean" boat, after 6 years of navigation throughout the Mediterranean, the Black Sea and the Portuguese, Spanish and Moroccan Atlantic sea, with dozens [...]
Mediterranea is in Lisbon
September 15, 2018 | Lisbon, Doca de Alcantara Crew Lagos-Lisbon, the people that closes the Route 2018. Simply, we. Our shirt, our colors, our boat, because in this week all the great Mediterranea crew was symbolically on board. With the eyes always, constantly, facing the [...]
2014-2019. Plankton and microplastics. Call to action for Mediterranea.
The "Plankton Mapping in the Mediterranean Sea" project began in 2014 with the departure of the Mediterranean journey. The project lacks funding and therefore proceeds to take advantage of the voluntary availability of Progetto Mediterranea expedition, the Mediterraneans and the marine biologist researcher who deals [...]
Mediterranea Route | 2013-2019
(by Simone Perotti) In a few hours I’m boarding on Mediterranea again. I’m going back to where I’ve built a new world together with a bunch of adventurers. Every time I board on that boat I wonder whether I’ll be able to represent that world, [...]
The Route 2018
Progetto Mediterranea expedition resumes its journey and enters its fourth year of navigation in the Mediterranean. Mediterranean vessel, a 60-foot-powered cutter ketch designed by Michel Bigoin, continues the route, carrying out its three objectives: nautical, cultural and scientific. Between May and September it will be [...]
Levant Sea. Commander’s travel notes.
(By Simone Perotti) We have not told enough about these weks, taken from travel, navigation, and interesting places where we are. We sailed from Limassol (Cyprus), on a route to Beirut. At the port someone warned us, “be careful … it’s dangerous.” We [...]
