August 2015 – CaBuReRa

“One day the world will be one country”

CaBuReRa Open blog 21st August 2015 0 Comment

Hi! I am Abbass Mouawia from Lebanon and I am 24 years old. I am an interior architect and I graduated nearly 9 months ago. I would like to talk about my special experience in Palermo city with CaBuReRa project: this experience with CESIE organization has been the beginning of my professional life and the quantum leap in my curriculum vitae. They gave me a valuable opportunity for gaining experience and knowledge and discover other cultures and societies. I met a lot of new people and make new friends from other countries and backgrounds, and of course I can’t forget the great chance of enhancing my life by travelling and visiting other countries and cities. I remember that at the very beginning of the project I was quite homesick but thanks to CESIE’s team the situation changed soon: they make me feel like I was in my country with my family and they worked hard to find the better place for me to work. I did an internship in FABLAB, that is really a good place with also the better people and stuff I’ve ever met. Those people also worked hard for teaching me the basics and fundamental ways to work in my domain as well as how to deal with people; they also gave me hundreds of creative ideas. One of the most important benefits I got from the CaBuReRa experience is surely the Italian class: it really makes me proud being able to speak the most romantic language in the world and to interact with the “palermitani”, people who gave me the help I need when I asked for some information about buses, streets, beaches, etc.

I am pretty sure that CaBuReRa project will be a strong ally in my professional life and a source of amazing memories in my social life . I hope from the depth of my heart that I’ll stay in contact with my new CESIE family and with all the people I met in Palermo. I am very thankful for all the support and help they gave to me and I really appreciate the CESIE’s efforts in dealing with us.

Thank you for your hospitality, thank you so much.

Abbass Mouawia

A focus on the Arab World: conference and intercultural event in Palermo

CaBuReRa News 5th August 20156th August 2015 0 Comment

In the framework of the CaBuReRa and TATRAC projects, a conference about “The future of the associations of the civil society in Maghreb and in the Middle East” took place on Friday 31^st July in Moltivolti (via M. Puglia, 21 – Palermo). The conference – that represented also the final moment of the three days of visits and training sessions addressed to the Sicilian and Tunisian partners of the TATRAC project – was followed by an Intercultural Event. During that, the 10 CaBuReRa young participants who terminated their mobility period in Palermo talked about their home countries – Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine – and introduced themselves by means of music, cooking and cultural traditions.

The meeting was firstly aimed to reflect on the future of the organizations of the civil society in the Arab World, but wanted also to highlight the main points of both the CaBuReRa and TATRAC projects, funded by ENPI programmes (ENPI CBC Med for CaBuReRa, ENPI Italy-Tunisia 2007-2013 for TATRAC). Rita Quisillo, coordinator of CaBuReRa, talked about this project that wants to contribute to the development of a Mediterranean network between youth, local authorities, public authorities and education protagonists in order to promote active citizenship and intercultural dialogue through mobility experiences. On the other hand, Abdelhamid Abidi, coordinator of the TATRAC project, focused his speech on the future of civil society in the Arab world especially after the Arab Spring. Abidi claimed that the activism of civil society is an important instrument of democratization which depends widely on the participation of the youth. Agreed with this statement, three of the CaBuReRa participants – Muna Sbouh, Mohammad Alhasan and Diyaa Mubaideen – presented the current situation of Palestinian and Jordanian organizations for the civil society, focusing on differences and similarities among Arab countries.

The following Intercultural Event was a success, joined by a great number of people that really enjoyed the Arab food prepared by our CaBuReRa participants. It should be considered a fundamental step along the way of the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation, as well as an occasion of cultural growth not just for the youth!

Dissemination seminar, TG2 in Greece

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Just a few days before the end of their mobility programme in Greece, the participants of the CaBuReRa project who are hosted by KMOP organized and implemented a dissemination seminar which took place in Athens, on the 30^th of July 2015. Aseel, Haya, Ibrahim and Saja from Palestine and Ahmad, Bayan, Cyrine, Nahar and Nidal from Jordan used various media such as video clips, pictures, true stories and experiences and even traditional costumes to present their countries and their culture. The event closed with some traditional Arabic music and dancing, which really enthused the audience, which was consisted mostly of young people.