The Anna Lindh Foundation organises in the framework of the ALF Virtual Marathon for Dialogue in the EuroMed and the German EU Presidency: Launch of the Intercultural Trends Survey 2020

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1 | Launch of the Intercultural Trends Survey 2020 The Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation coordinates in the framework of the German Presidency of the European Union the international launch of the Inter- cultural Trends Survey 2020. The Survey is the scientific tool to gather the voices of thousands of people from Europe and the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean on their mutual perceptions, attitudes, fears, and aspirations.

AGENDA Launch of the Intercultural Trends Survey 2020

02.12.2020 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM CET

Opening remarks:

Elisabeth Guigou – President, Anna Lindh Foundation.

Dr Nabil Al Sharif – Executive Director, Anna Lindh Foundation.

Johannes Ebert – Secretary General/ Chairman of the Board, Goethe-Institut.

Overview on Survey data:

Robert Wragg – Senior Research Executive, Ipsos Mori.

Comments on Survey data:

Dr. Naouel Abdellatif Mami – Author for the ALF Intercultural Trends Report, Vice-Rector of External Relations, University of Sétif 2, Algeria.

Dr.Necdet Saglam – Author for the ALF Intercultural Trends Report and Head of Network, Professor at Anadolu University in Turkey and Co-Head of the Turkish ALF Network.

Ms. Nahia Kanj – Young Mediterranean Voices alumni, Opinion editor at AUB independent student newspaper and President at AUB discuss, debate, and discourse club, Lebanon.

Dr. Paul Mihailidis – Associate Professor and Senior Fellow at Emerson College, Boston, MA; Faculty Chair and Director of the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change, Salzburg and expert of IFA’s Research Programme "Cul- ture and Foreign Policy” .

Q&A with the audience

This event is organised as part of a series of events together with the Public Policy Forum on Youth and Civil Society in the EuroMed. OpeningOpening remarksremarks

Biographies of participants to the Launch of the Anna Lindh Intercultural Trends Survey on the 2nd of December

NA B Nabil AL-Sharif IL — H.E. Dr Nabil Al-Sharif, Executive Director A L of the Anna Lindh Foundation for Dialogue between Cultures, - S H former Senator, Ambassador, Minister and a strong advocate for A

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Nabil Al-Sharif has an extensive background in public service, which includes positions as Minister of Media Affairs & Government Spokesperson of The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and member of the Upper House of Jordan’s Parliament.

Al-Sharif has also served Jordan’s Foreign Service in the capacity of Ambassador to Morocco, Mauritania and Senegal. Previously, he has also worked as Editor-in-Chief of the Ad-Dustour newspaper, which is an Arabic- language daily in Jordan. He was also the cultural editor of a local Jordanian daily and wrote extensively both in Arabic and English on the need for enhancing intercultural dialogue.

Dr Al-Sharif obtained his PhD and MA in English Literature from Indiana University in the US. He also taught at three Jordanian universities for a number of years.

Elisabeth Guigou is the President of the Anna Lindh Foundation since OU 2015, was born in , Morocco. She served as French IG U Minister of European Affairs (1990-1993), and was elected in G H T 1994 as a Member of the . E B

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O E Eleonora Insalaco is Head of Operations

L E and Intercultural Research at the Anna Lindh Foundation. Insalaco is also the editor of three consecutive editions of the Anna Lindh Report on Intercultural Trends in the EuroMed region’ (2010, 2014, 2017 editions) and of the Anna Lindh Handbook on Intercultural Citizenship Education in the EuroMed region’.

Insalaco is a graduate of the College of Europe, with academic expertise in Islamic studies and Euro-Med relations in the field of the fields of education, research, youth, civil society, cultural and media.

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ROBER T W R A G Robert Wragg is a Senior Research Executive in Ipsos MORI’s Social G Research Institute, where he sits in the London-based International Social Research team.

Wragg is responsible for coordinating and supporting multi- country research projects across Africa, Asia and Europe. He supports organisations working on a range of policy areas, from public health to migration; from violence against women and girls to education.

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Biographies of participants to the Launch of the Anna Lindh Intercultural Trends Survey on the 2nd of December

AM TIF M I LA EL Professor Naouel Abdellatif Mami is a PhD holder in educational D B psychology and teaching foreign languages. She is a professor and A L E Vice Rector in charge of the External Relations and Cooperation at U

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N A Higher Education Reform Expert, she has participated and coordinated a number of international research projects with the Council of Europe, The UN, the EU, UNIMED and the UNESCO.

N Nahia Kanj from Lebanon is civil and environmental engineering A H student at the American University of Beirut. She is an opinion IA K editor at an independent student newspaper at the University and A N the President at AUB discuss, debate, and discourse club. J She is a certified Trainer in the framework of the Erasmus virtual exchange.

Kanj was champion of the first virtual Euro-med online debate competition in August 2019. She recently delivered a seminar on climate change and sustainable food production as part of a research internship at Duke university.

Click here to watch Nahia’s video testimony on the challenges that youth face in the Euro-Mediterranean region and how inter-cultural dialogue or cooperation could address those challenges.

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Mihailidis is founding program director of the MA in Media Design, Senior Fellow of the Emerson Engagement Lab, and faculty chair and director of the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Slate Magazine, the Nieman Foundation, USA Today, Newsweek, CNN, and others.

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Saglam is also the director of 2N Innovation R&D Research Company and a former trainee of the European Union. Saglam has authored many publications, books, articles and teaching material on NGOs, SMEs, IFRS. He works for the governmental, private and the NGO-sector, delivering trainings.

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The Anna Lindh Foundation organises in the framework of the ALF Virtual Marathon for Dialogue in the EuroMed and the German EU Presidency: Launch of the Intercultural Trends Survey 2020

In the framework of: An initiative of: In partnership with:

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