Istanbul Athens

July 5 – July 20, 2025
Environment and development

Program

 July 5-7: conference in Istanbul (Türkiye): "Environment and development"
July 8 – 17: navigation
July 18-20: Festival in Athens – Piraeus (Greece)

About

The fifth stage of the MED 25 Le Bel Espoir odyssey will focus on the environmental challenges of the Mediterranean basin. Faced with tragic droughts and deadly fires, aware that the sea cannot be a toxic dump, all bordering peoples have a high responsibility to raise awareness of the primary meaning of this shared basin, a vital resource for all. By taking up certain specific questions that arise from the degradation of this particular biome, several areas of commitment will be defined to maintain the protection and fair distribution of resources, without which peace becomes impossible.

"We must learn to live with the sense of 'limit' and the limitation of resources not as an obstacle to our achievement, our pleasure and our rights as consumers, but rather as a new frontier on which personal satisfaction and collective progress are drawn." Gianluca Solera, Network Coordinator, Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for Dialogue between Cultures.

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