A training ship...
After the Mediterranean Meetings of Bari (2020), Florence (2022), Marseille (2023) and Tirana (2024), the Mar Yam association, the AJD - Bel Espoir association and the diocese of Marseille are organizing the MED 25 - Bel Espoir odyssey: from March to October 2025, 8 months of navigation, as many thematic conferences and festivals during 30 stopovers on the 5 shores of the Mediterranean, with 200 young people on board (in groups of 25), of all faiths and religions.
...for peace
All the objectives of the MED 25 - Bel Espoir odyssey aim to promote a culture of dialogue and build peace.
1. Education
Validation of each 15-day session by a dissertation resulting in a certificate.
2. Excellence
Development of a white paper on the entire course by the participants of the eight sessions.
3. Brotherhood
Establishment of a network of mutual aid and friendship to support talent mobility.
4. Expertise
Creation of a think tank Mediterranean to produce the first reflections and then continue their development by providing expertise and a network of skills for economic, religious, educational and associative actors.
The Beautiful Hope, a geggplant three-masted
- 29 meters long and 2.80m draft
- Built in 1944 in Denmark and first restored in 1993
- Second recent restoration, to provide it with a new hull in steel, while retaining its original rigging.
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