MED 25 - The Beautiful Hope

A training ship
for peace

Welcome aboard!

8 months of navigation, 30 ports, 200 young people

In the spirit of the Mediterranean Meetings of Bari (2020), Florence (2022), Marseille (2023) and Tirana (2024), the association Mar Yam, the association Beautiful Hope - AJD and theDiocesan Association of Marseille organize the MED 25 - Bel Espoir odyssey.

From March to October 2025, a peace training ship will sail the Mediterranean, connecting the five shores. On board, eight groups of twenty-five young people of all nationalities, cultures and religions are committed to peace.

MED 25 LIVE

Session 3 - May 2025

VALLETTA - CHANIA

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"Why does this violence still exist?"

Marcelle Bugre, a specialist in migration, conflict resolution, and gender, spoke at the national conference "Women in the Mediterranean," organized by the Archdiocese of Malta on April 27 at the Mediterranean Conference Centre (MCC) in Valletta, Malta.

“What happens when silence has a price?”

Omertà - Silence and Being Silenced - Maria Brown, Ph.D. Keynote Address delivered at the Mediterranean Ethnographic Laboratory Archives (MELA) Conference Women in the Mediterranean April 27, 2025 Mediterranean Conference Centre, Malta Opening What happens when silence has a price? And that price…

“Why the indifference?”

Daniela DeBono is Head of Department and Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropological Sciences at the University of Malta, where she teaches courses on refugees, migration and displacement, borders, humanitarian action, and human rights, among other topics. Women…

“Woman […] is the path to peace”

Sr Nathalie Becquart, a Xavierian nun and theologian, is undersecretary of the general secretariat of the Synod of Bishops at the Vatican and sends a message of support to the young people involved in the Mediterranean meetings, at the start of this third session which begins in Malta on April 1, 2025. Reflection…

“We are not here to reinvent the wheel, but to create”

Introduction to the national conference "Women in the Mediterranean" held at the MCC in Valletta, Malta, on April 27, 2025, by Father Jean-Claude Attard, coordinator of the diocesan presence in the Mediterranean, is responsible for promoting Mediterranean synodality in collaboration with…

Mediterranean “There is no peace without courage.”

Father Alexis Leproux, Episcopal Vicar for Mediterranean Relations in Marseille and coordinator of the Mediterranean Meetings, spoke at the end of the "Women in the Mediterranean" conference, which took place on April 27 at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta, Malta.

Educating for peace and non-violence

Archbishop Corrado Loreficen is Metropolitan Archbishop of Palermo. On March 29, 2025, he gave this lecture to the youth of MED 25 at the Faculty of Theology of Sicily. Dear young people of the MED 25 Project, dear friends gathered here, I greet you with...

8 sessions
from March to October 2025

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Barcelona Tetouan

1 – 15 March 2025
Dialogue of cultures

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Palermo Bizerte

March 29 – April 13, 2025
Education and society

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Valletta Chania

April 26 – May 11, 2025
Women in the Mediterranean

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Nicosia
Jounieh

June 7 – June 21, 2025
Religions in dialogue

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Istanbul Athens

July 5 – July 20, 2025
Environment and development

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Durres Trieste

August 4 – August 17, 2025
Migration challenges

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Ravenna
Bari

August 30 – September 14, 2025
Eastern and Western Christianity

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Naples Marseille

October 11 – 26, 2025
Building peace