Il Seminario
Panoramica
L’obiettivo del Seminario, esclusivamente dedicato ai giovani change-maker, è facilitare il dibattito e lo scambio di idee fra i partecipanti considerati innovatori, offrendo un ambiente favorevole e stimoli a pensare fuori dagli schemi, trovare una base comune, esplorare soluzioni che travalichino i confini nazionali. La qualità del dibattito è assicurata dal reciproco rispetto e dall’invito all’autoriflessione. Ai partecipanti vengono poste domande impegnative per provocare risposte coraggiose. Imparare è condividere esperienze, partecipare attivamente e fare nuovi incontri.
Il Seminario si articola in conferenze plenarie, workshop interattivi, proiezioni di film e attività culturali. I partecipanti vengono invitati a riflettere e discutere su temi relativi alle seguenti aree tematiche, suddivise in tre stream:
- Nuove dinamiche geopolitiche della regione del Medio Oriente Mediterraneo
- Governance, amministrazione e policy-making
- Narrazioni culturali
L’obiettivo del Seminario, esclusivamente dedicato ai giovani change-maker, è facilitare il dibattito e lo scambio di idee fra i partecipanti considerati innovatori, offrendo un ambiente favorevole e stimoli a pensare fuori dagli schemi, trovare una base comune, esplorare soluzioni che travalichino i confini nazionali. La qualità del dibattito è assicurata dal reciproco rispetto e dall’invito all’autoriflessione. Ai partecipanti vengono poste domande impegnative per provocare risposte coraggiose. Imparare è condividere esperienze, partecipare attivamente e fare nuovi incontri.
Il Seminario si articola in conferenze plenarie, workshop interattivi, proiezioni di film e attività culturali. I partecipanti vengono invitati a riflettere e discutere su temi relativi alle seguenti aree tematiche, suddivise in tre stream – Nuove dinamiche geopolitiche della regione del Medio Oriente Mediterraneo; Governance, amministrazione e policy-making; Narrazioni culturali.
In un quarto stream, chiamato Horizontal Stream, i giovani change-maker accompagnati da un team di facilitatori lavorano a delle proposte di progetto con un approccio transnazionale e trasversale. Le aree principali delle proposte di progetto degli anni scorsi sono state: educazione, cultura, partecipazione politica, crisi dei rifugiati, creazione di posti di lavoro, coesione sociale, salute mentale (Vedi il documento della Lugano Initiative – La Lugano Initiative – MEM Summer Summit 2019 e La Lugano Initiative – MEM Summer Summit 2018).
Quest’anno a causa della pandemia di Coronavirus e delle sue conseguenze, il Summit non può essere tenuto come previsto. Le circostanze hanno comprensibilmente imposto una revisione del formato del MEM Summer Summit 2020. Il Seminario non ha avuto luogo e è stato sostituito da una serie di eventi online e alcuni eventi nella regione.
Nuove dinamiche geopolitiche della regione del Medio Oriente Mediterraneo
Questo stream ambisce ad offrire un quadro generale della complessa situazione geopolitica e delle sfide della regione del Medio Oriente Mediterraneo, ponendo l’accento sull’attualità. L’analisi spazia dal Levante duramente colpito dai conflitti e percorso dalle proteste al Nord Africa dove si assiste a una scomparsa di vecchi sistemi politici in alcuni dei paesi interessati dalle proteste del 201 nonché l’emergenza di nuove configurazioni politiche.
Medio Oriente Mediterraneo: Governance, amministrazione e policy-making
Questo stream offre ai partecipanti una panoramica di diverse tradizioni amministrative, approffondendo modelli analitici e pratiche. Si analizzano le complesse problematiche che interessano la regione del Medio Oriente Mediterraneo a livello amministrativo e di governance. In una prospettiva comparativa, verranno illustrati il sistema politico svizzero, l’agenda e le attività e le politiche estere della Svizzera come importante partner per i paesi della regione.
Medio Oriente Mediterraneo: Narrazioni culturali
Questo stream esplora il ruolo delle narrazioni nel cogliere e rappresentare le varie realtà della regione del Medio Oriente Mediterraneo così come l’emergenza di nuovi significati nelle arti figurative, nel cinema e nella letteratura. Creatività e cultura sono potenti strumenti per la creazione di nuove narrazioni e per una miglior comprensione delle società della regione del Medio Oriente Mediteranno, nonché forze propulsive per lo sviluppo socio-economico.
Horizontal Stream
In un quarto stream, chiamato Horizontal Stream, i giovani change-maker accompagnati da un team di facilitatori lavorano a delle proposte di progetto con un approccio transnazionale e trasversale. Le aree principali delle proposte di progetto degli anni scorsi sono state: educazione, cultura, partecipazione politica, crisi dei rifugiati, creazione di posti di lavoro, coesione sociale, salute mentale (Vedi il documento della Lugano Initiative – La Lugano Initiative – MEM Summer Summit 2019 e La Lugano Initiative – MEM Summer Summit 2018).
Progamma del Seminario
Il programma del Seminario del MEM Summer Summit 2020 sarà disponibile a breve.
Course coordinated by Prof Gilles Kepel, Prof Hela Ouardi, and Dr Federica Frediani
Course coordinated by Prof Jean-Patrick Villeneuve in collaboration with the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA)
Course coordinated by Prof Riccardo Bocco, Prof Silvia Naef, and Dr Federica Frediani
The Università della Svizzera Italiana endorses the MEM Summer Summit Code of Conduct, which is applicable to all individuals participating in the MEM Summer Summit.
Partecipanti
The MEM Summer Summit invita giovani change-maker dalla regione del Medio Oriente Mediterraneo e dall’Europa che hanno un comprovato interesse nella suddetta zona geografica nonché un attivo coinvolgimento nella società.
Seminar Speakers
MYRIAM AHMED
Associate Programme Officer (Mediation), swisspeace, Switzerland
MYRIAM AHMED
Myriam Ahmed holds an MA in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Bern, Switzerland. She is an associate programme officer at the Mediation program of swisspeace, where she contributes to the Syria portfolio, as well as the Mediation Support Project. In the framework of the former, she is a member of the team that organises and implements the Civil Society Support Room (CSSR), an inclusion mechanism of the political process led by the UN Office of the Special Envoy for Syria.
Before joining swisspeace, Ahmed worked at the Swiss Embassy in Riyadh and in the Middle East and North Africa Division of the Swiss Federal Department for Foreign Affairs, focusing mainly on the Arabic Peninsula and Iran. She also facilitated an innovative education project in Cairo.
H.R.H. RYM ALI
Royal Film Commission Jordan, Jordan
H.R.H. RYM ALI
Her Royal Highness Princess Rym Ali founded in 2007 the Jordan Media Institute (JMI), a non-profit institution whose aim is to establish an Arab center of excellence for journalism education with a Master’s program at its core and training modules.
She has also been member of the Board of Commissioners of the Royal Film Commission – Jordan since July 2005.
Prior to marrying HRH Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, Princess Rym worked extensively for international broadcasters including CNN, where she began as a producer in 1998 and later worked as a Baghdad correspondent from 2001 until 2004. She had developed her portfolio working for the BBC, Dubai TV, Bloomberg TV, Radio Monte-Carlo Moyen-Orient and United Press International-UPI.
Princess Rym Ali received a prestigious Alumni Award from the Columbia University School of Journalism in April 2011. In July 2011, she has also been awarded the “Best International Journalist” prize at the 32nd Ischia International Journalism Awards Ceremony, one of the most renowned journalistic awards in Italy. In September 2011, Princess Rym Ali was decorated with French Knight of the Legion of Honor by French Ambassador to Jordan.
IYAD ALQAISI
Lawyer and co-founder of Justice Clinic, Jordan
IYAD ALQAISI
Iyad Alqaisi holds an LLM from the Syracuse University College of Law and is a member of the Jordanian Bar Association and the Palestinian Bar Association.
Alqaisi is a lawyer who specialises in human rights law and has extensive experience in gender-based violence and family protection issues. Alqaisi is a co-founder of Justice Clinic, which seeks to promote access to justice through research, advocacy, training and legal representation. Alongside his legal career, he has worked as an adviser and consultant for a number of international NGOs and embassies. Alqaisi is a MEM alumni and member of the Bites of Transfoodmation project.
H.E. MASSIMO BAGGI
Ambassador of Switzerland to the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, Switzerland
H.E. MASSIMO BAGGI
Massimo Baggi holds an MBA in Economics from the University of Zurich.
He then became a research assistant at the Graduate Institute of Public Administration at the University of Lausanne (1989-1990) and completed his academic studies with a diploma training program at the Faculty of International Relations at the University of Geneva. (1993). From 1991 to 1992, he was assistant director of the Institute of Economic Research at the University of Italian Switzerland. In 1992 he joined the Swiss diplomatic service in Bern. After a training period at the Swiss Mission to the UN in New York, he was posted to the Swiss Embassy in London. From 1994 to 1998, Baggi held the post of Diplomatic Collaborator for European Integration Issues in the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and the Federal Department of Economic Affairs in Bern. From 1998 to 2003, he was an advisor in charge of economic affairs at the Swiss Embassy in Delhi before taking up the same position at the Swiss Embassy in Moscow between 2003 and 2006.
Back in Switzerland, Baggi is head of the Asia and Pacific Division at the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) until 2010. He then acts as Consul General of Switzerland in Milan until the end of the World Expo, in 2015.
Baggi took office as Ambassador of Switzerland to the Kingdom of Morocco at the end of January 2016 and was appointed as Ambassador of Switzerland to the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain as of September 2019.
FABRICE BALANCHE
Associate Professor, University of Lyon, France
FABRICE BALANCHE
Fabrice Balanche is an associate professor at the University of Lyon. Formerly a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution from 2017 to 2018, Balanche is a political geographer who specialises in the Middle East. From 2003 to 2007, he was the director of the Urban Observatory at the French Institute of the Near East in Beirut. From 2010 to 2015, he was the director of GREMMO (Research Group on the Mediterranean and the Middle East) at the University of Lyon, as well as a visiting fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy from 2015 to 2017.
Balanche received a doctorate in political geography from the University of Tours in 2000 and accreditation to supervise research from the University of Lyon in 2013. He is frequently called on as an expert consultant on Middle East development issues and the Syrian crisis.
He spent ten years in Lebanon and Syria, his main areas of study, since first engaging in fieldwork in the region in 1990. He was one of the first academics and observers who accurately predicted the evolution of the Syrian crisis thanks to his deep knowledge of the Syrian society and his method of analysis. Balanche tries to understand political power by studying territory through a multidisciplinary approach that combines quantitative and qualitative methods, Geographic Information System (GIS), as well as direct field surveys; mapping is an important part of his research.
KENZA BENABDERRAZIK
Lecturer and Researcher, Sustainable Agroecosystems (SAE) group, ETH Zürich, Morocco
KENZA BENABDERRAZIK
Kenza Benabderrazik is a lecturer and researcher in the Sustainable Agroecosystems (SAE) group at ETH Zürich. For her doctoral research, Kenza studied the complex interplay between agricultural production, farmers’ economic welfare and ecological preservation, using system dynamics modelling tools. More specifically, she looked at the case of tomato producers in Ghana and Morocco and has a special focus on ways of achieving a more sustainable and resilient production system. Her research is now shifting towards power relations, political ecologies and pathways to food systems transformation.
Kenza is now a lecturer within the SAE group contributing to the development and the implementation of undergraduate and graduate curriculum at the Institute of Agricultural Sciences. In conjunction with her teaching activities, Kenza coordinates art-science projects to open and foster dialogues between artists, scientists and various actors with regard to food systems and agroecological transition, as well as food systems transformation.
Kenza completed her studies in environmental engineering in 2012 at EPFL. For 4 years, she worked as an environmental consultant on various projects related to environmental impact assessment, resource efficiency and circular economy in several countries including Morocco, Tunisia, Switzerland, India and Burkina Faso.
ELEONORA BENECCHI
Lecturer and Researcher, Institute of Media and Journalism, Università della Svizzera italiana, Italy
ELEONORA BENECCHI
Eleonora Benecchi received an MA cum laude in Communication Sciences from the University of Bologna, Italy. In 2004, she published “Anime, cartoni con l’anima“, an in-depth analysis of the programming and reception of Japanese animation in Italy.
From 2004 to 2007, she was a teaching assistant of a course on television and radio communication at the University of Bologna where she was also a tutor of workshop activities for the ‘Compass’ masters degree. During that period of time, she was involved in different research projects with the University of Bologna, as well as other public and private research projects, including: “Gender representation in Italian television” (University of Bologna and Ancorpari National Association, 2003); and “Social Scheduling of Italian Television” (Studio Vivaldi Comunicazione and Segretariato Sociale RAI, 2003-2005).
She subsequently enrolled as a PhD student at the Università della Svizzera italiana and started a research on the phenomenon of Internet fandom from a socio-economic point of view under the supervision of professor Giuseppe Richeri. She also worked as a research assistant for “Analysis of Radio and TV scheduling and contents in Switzerland” (UFCOM, Institute of Media and Journalism (IMeG) and the University of Fribourg, 2007-2010), and for the “Mass Media and Religion” research project (IMeG, 2008).
Since the beginning of her PhD, Benecchi has published scientific articles and book chapters in the field of Internet culture, online fandom and participatory culture in top-ranked journals such as Media Culture and Society and New Media and Society. Having completed her PhD, she currently works at IMeG in Lugano as a fellow researcher and lecturer where she also teaches the ‘Digital Cultures’ bachelor’s degree course and the ‘Social Media Management’ master’s degree course.
TERESA DRACE FRANCIS
Senior Programme Officer for Arts, Sigrid Rausing Trust, England
TERESA DRACE FRANCIS
Teresa Drace-Francis is Senior Programme Officer for Arts. Prior to joining the trust she was General Manager at Iniva, working predominantly with British-born and British-based visual artists of African and Asian descent. She has previously worked at Gasworks, Cubitt and Arts Council England as well as independently advising and lecturing. Teresa holds a BA in Art History from Cambridge University and a Masters in Management from Queen Mary University.
SHIVAN FAZIL
Seminar Facilitator
Researcher, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Iraq
SHIVAN FAZIL
Shivan Fazil is a Researcher with Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – SIPRI’s Middle East and North Africa Programme. His work mainly focuses on drivers of conflict, peacebuilding and governance in Iraq, where he has worked for over six years with various organisations, most recently with the United States Institute of Peace. He has also featured in the international media, commenting on Iraq’s social, political and security dynamics and the challenges of governance after the military defeat of Islamic State.
Fazil holds an MSc in Middle Eastern Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has just co-edited a book on Youth Identity, Politics and Change in Contemporary Kurdistan, published by Transnational Press London.
FEDERICA FREDIANI
Ph.D. Senior Researcher, Educational Programme Manager, MEM Freethinking Platform, Università della Svizzera italiana, MEM Summer Summit Project leader, Switzerland
FEDERICA FREDIANI
Federica Frediani, Senior researcher and lecturer at the Università della Svizzera italiana, is currently Educational Programme Manager of the Middle East Mediterranean Freethinking Platform. She is a member of the Project Committee and Project Leader of the Middle East Mediterranean Summer Summit. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Università di Siena. Her research interests focus mainly on representations, narratives, cultural productions and political and intercultural dynamics of the Middle East Mediterranean region. She published books and articles on travel writing. In particular the women travel literature, and on the relationships between Northern and Southern shores of the Mediterranean.
BASSEL GHANDOUR
Film Director, Jordan
BASSEL GHANDOUR
Bassel wrote and produced ‘Theeb’, the 2016 Oscar Nominee and BAFTA winner. The Alleys, his directorial debut, premiered at the Piazza Grande of the Locarno Film Festival.
MICHAEL GIBBERT
Professor, Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
MICHAEL GIBBERT
Michael Gibbert is a professor of sustainable consumption at the Universita della Svizzera italiana and director of the World Challenges Programme where he and his team study the challenges involved in transitions towards more sustainable lifestyles.
BÉNÉDICTE GODERIAUX
Senior Programme Officer for Human Rights, Sigrid Rausing Trust, France
BÉNÉDICTE GODERIAUX
Bénédicte Goderiaux is Senior Programme Officer for Human Rights, with a focus on Defending Civic Space. Prior to this she was senior policy and advocacy adviser at Saferworld, where she focused on the impact of counter terrorism and migration policies for rights, peace and development. Previously she was a researcher at Amnesty International’s International Secretariat for 17 years, focusing on East and North African countries. She has experience monitoring, documenting and reporting human rights concerns in repressive contexts and armed conflict related abuses. She has worked with civil society groups and human rights defenders in several countries to develop tailored advocacy and campaigning strategies. She holds an MA in Social Anthropology of development from the School of Oriental and African Studies and an MA from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.
CAROLE GEURTLER
Seminar Facilitator
Independent consultant in sustainable development, cultural and creative economies and media, Switzerland
CAROLE GEURTLER
Carole Guertler is an independent consultant in sustainable development, cultural and creative economies and media. She specialises in organisational development and capacity building, project and programme work, as well as grantmaking and communication in the fields of philanthropy, NGO / NPO, social impact entrepreneurship and CSR. She has been trained in culture and the arts, journalism and communication, and NPO management and leadership. She works primarily in the Mediterranean and Middle East Region, as well as in Western and Southeast Europe.
Previously, she worked in senior positions for the Drosos Foundation, managing its activities in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation during the Central European flooding in 2002. She also worked for Medienhilfe, an organisation committed to media diversity and media freedom in the aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars. Before that, she worked for more than 10 years as a freelance journalist and editor for Swiss and German print and radio media.
She subsequently became a member of the Advisory Board of the socio-cultural enterprise Yaraqa, in Lebanon, and of the Board of the information agency Synaps, in Lebanon/Switzerland.
ABIR HAJ IBRAHIM
Co-Founder and Board Member, Modaberoon Network, Syria
ABIR HAJ IBRAHIM
Abir Haj Ibrahim is one of the two co-founders of Mobaderoon Network, a civil institution with more than 4000 social activists, which works to provide civil society organisations in the Arab region with a range of consulting and training services.
Prior to founding the network, Haj Ibrahim was involved in voluntary work, whilst also working in the oil and gas sector, which she left once Mobaderoon gained momentum. She participated in developing the Procurement & Contracts department in partnership with TOTAL E&P and was nominated as High Potential employee for two years. She was subsequently selected as a project manager with the British Council where she was able to play a major role in putting the Active Citizens programme into action.
During the Syrian conflict, Haj Ibrahim’s new area of concern involved conflict resolution as a response to the local needs in Syria. She became a peace building facilitator in a widespread youth network and had the opportunity to build on her skills in mediation in several ways. She trained, planned and worked with peace actors who had a clear common vision in mind. In protecting sectarianism from spreading across the country, she was able to lead the network into a synergistic process and gathered members from different backgrounds, cultures and ethnic groups into one network, whose focus was on common values, as well as managing the worst time of isolation in the surrounding areas.
Working with people has given Haj Ibrahim the ability and the dedication to allow the network to develop and function in a more systematic way, whilst providing proper protection for the flexibility of the network.
In 2014, Haj Ibrahim was one of the co-founders who won the Livia Foundation Prize for her work in peace during the conflict.
RAYAN KASSEM
West Asia Regional Director, Youth4Nature, Lebanon
RAYAN KASSEM
Rayan Kassem holds a double master’s degree in Environmental Sciences, which he received in Austria and Denmark. He has previously worked with UNDP-Lebanon, Greenpeace, and corporate GHG emission accounting in Denmark.
Kassem is the West Asia Regional Director for Youth4Nature. He is one of the national coordinators for the Global Youth Biodiversity Network activities in Lebanon, a youth council member at Real Food Systems, the Regional Youth Focal Point for the MENA in support of the Food Systems Summit 2021, a core member on the youth pledge for the UN Food Systems Summit, and the thematic facilitator for nature and food security on the steering committee for UNEP MGCY.
Kassem’s expertise spans across biodiversity protection, nature-based solutions, climate justice, water consumption, as well as diets, a subject about which he has published. Kassem believes that advocating for the protection of nature through youth engagement on a continuous basis is necessary amid the region’s instability and is eager to encourage the potential for nature protection in West Asia and globally.
GILLES KEPEL
Professor, PLS Paris Sciences et Lettres-École normale supérieure, France; Adjunct Professor and Scientific director of the Middle East Mediterranean Freethinking Platform, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
GILLES KEPEL
Gilles Kepel is a French political scientist and Arabist, specialised in the contemporary Middle East and Muslims in the West. He is Adjunct Professor and scientific director of the Middle East Mediterranean Freethinking Platform.
He is also Professor at the Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) and director of the Middle East and Mediterranean Chair at PSL, based at Ecole Normale Supérieure. Originally trained as a classicist, he started to study Arabic after a journey to the Levant in 1974. He first graduated in Philosophy and English, then completed his Arabic language studies at the French Institute in Damascus (1977–78), and received his degree from Sciences Po in 1980.
His research interests focus on the current geopolitical configurations and conflicts in the Middle East Mediterranean region, including the impact of Jihadi terror in the wake of the Massive attacks on French and European soil. He investigated the developments of Islam as a social and political phenomenon in France, with an innovative approach in Islamic studies in the West. He researched on the 2005 French Banlieues riots in the Clichy-Montfermeil area, north of Paris, whence the events sparked.
He also carried out comparative studies of political-religious movements in Islam, Judaism and Christianity. His two latest books are titled: Away from Chaos, Columbia University Press (2020) and Le prophète et la pandémie. Du Moyen-Orient au jihadisme d’atmosphère, Gallimard (2021).
MARTINO LOVATO
Lecturer in Comparative Literature, Mount Holyoke College, Italy
MARTINO LOVATO
Martino Lovato is a visiting lecturer in Classics and Italian at the Mount Holyoke College where he teaches Italian, French, and Arabic literature and cinema. His scholarship centres on the Mediterranean and focuses on migration, border crossing, as well as social justice across the countries and societies in the region.
His published and forthcoming essays are devoted to the medieval rebellion of the Zendj black slaves and to the Renaissance cosmography of Leo Africanus/Al-Wazzan. He also studies contemporary migration cinema and literature through the works of Merzak Allouache and Abdelmalek Smari, as well as the Cold War postcolonial relationships between Europe and the Arab world through the cinema of Francesco Rosi.
FYRAS MAWAZINI
Seminar Facilitator
Country Director for Morocco and Tunisia, Drosos Foundation, Switzerland
FYRAS MAWAZINI
Mr Fyras Mawazini graduated from the Institut Universitaire d’Etudes du Développement (IUED) in Geneva. He has more than 15 years’ experience as head of mission for several international NGOs in various countries in Africa and the Middle East. He has been the director of the Drosos Foundation office in Casablanca since 2016.
He joined the Foundation in 2011 and was the country director for Egypt until 2014, after which, in 2015, he was responsible for developing the Foundation’s programmes in Tunisia. He is currently in charge of Morocco and Tunisia and closely follows the transformation of the civil societies through an important network of almost 50 partners in both countries. He participates actively in their dynamism and their role as actors of change by accompanying and supporting them with the implementation of development programmes that address social challenges.
IBRAHIM OLABI
Executive Director and Founder, Syrian Legal Development Programme, Syria
IBRAHIM OLABI
Ibrahim Olabi is the founder and director of the Syrian Legal Development Programme, an organisation addressing international law matters in the Syrian conflict. Olabi trained more than 500 Syrians inside Syria and in neighbouring countries on matters of international humanitarianism, human rights and criminal law in relation to the Syrian conflict. He regularly engages with policy makers in Geneva, London and Brussels on human rights matters in Syria.
He completed his LLM (Master of Laws) in Security and International Law and his LLB at the University of Manchester, where he was awarded both Undergraduate and Postgraduate Student of the Year. During his time at university he was the President of the Arab Society and was further elected as national union of students delegate to represent his university.
In 2017, he worked as a consultant for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the legality of local agreements that led to population transfer in Syria. He is also a consultant for the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute. In 2018, Olabi passed his UK bar exams and joined Guernica 37, International Justice Chambers, as a barrister.
DIANA SEGANTINI
Advisor for Arts, culture, heritage and media, Switzerland
DIANA SEGANTINI
Diana Segantini is a Swiss/Norwegian citizen who specialised in Arab-Islamic Studies at L’Orientale University in Naples and holds a Masters in International Relations from IUHEI Geneva. Segantini started her professional career in the art and documentary film scene, as well as gaining extensive experience working in different countries serving the UN, various NGOs and more extensively in the Middle East as a delegate for the International Red Cross ICRC for 4 years. Fluent in Arabic and 9 other languages, she has become an expert on the Arab region and with regard to intercultural issues.
In 2008, she founded Segantini Unlimited, an agency specialised in cultural mediation and international cultural productions such as art exhibitions, music events, debates and documentary films, mandated by the Global Ethic Foundation.
Segantini has also led women’s empowerment programs in Saudi Arabia and the rest of the GCC. For 6 years, she was head of Arts & Culture for Swiss TV and radio RSI and a Member of the RSI Board, producing music concerts and over 100 feature and documentary films, acclaimed at various international Festivals.
Since 2019, she has contributed to Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 through several projects; in 2019 she was appointed Chief Heritage & Culture officer at Diriyah Gate Development Authority in Saudi Arabia, responsible for this UNESCO Heritage Site, building up several cultural institutions such as museums, academies and an Art District. She subsequently served as senior director for Arts & Culture at AMAALA. Currently, she is Partner for Culture, Heritage & Communication at AEON Strategy, a Saudi firm specialised in true sustainability. Moreover, she is an independent advisor for arts, culture, media & philanthropy in different projects in GCC and Switzerland.
GABRIELE SEGRE
Director of the Vittorio Dan Segre Foundation, Switzerland
GABRIELE SEGRE
Gabriele Segre is a scholar of public policy and international relations. He studied in Italy, the United States and Singapore, where he obtained his PhD in the field of leadership and reform processes of public organisations. From 2012 to 2018, he collaborated with the United Nations in the area of the reform process for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, before devoting himself full-time to the Vittorio Dan Segre Foundation.
JEAN-PATRICK VILLENEUVE
Professor and Director, Institute of Communication and Public Policy, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
JEAN-PATRICK VILLENEUVE
Jean-Patrick Villeneuve is associate professor at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI). He is also vice dean of the Faculty of Communication Sciences, Deputy-Director of the Institute for Public Communication, and academic director of the master’s programme, Public Management and Policy, which is offered in conjunction with the University of Lausanne and the University of Berne.
Villeneuve holds the following degrees: a PhD in Public Administration from the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration/HEC Lausanne, Switzerland; an MPhil from Cambridge University, United Kingdom; an MA from Concordia University, Canada; and a BA from McGill University, Canada.
He is adjunct professor of Public Management at the Ecole nationale d’admnistration publique in Canada and visiting professor at the International University of Business and Economics (UIBE) in Beijing, China.
He is a member of Ticino’s Cantonal Commissione di Mediazione Independente and a member of the Steering Committee of the Independent Expert Panel of the Open Government Partnership.
Prior to joining USI, Villeneuve worked for the United Nations at the International Civil Aviation Organisation and the International Labour Organisation. He has also worked for Canadian public organisations, including: the Federal Ministry of Transport, the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the House of Commons. He works regularly with public institution at the local, national and international level.
His research on organisational transparency, anti-corruption policies and gambling regulation has been funded by various institutions, most notably by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the European Science Foundation.
He is a member of various journal boards and academic associations, and has published in a number of top-level academic journals, including: Government Information Quarterly, International Review of Administrative Sciences, European Journal of Risk Regulation, Gaming Law Review, among others. He has also published with leading publishing houses including Routledge, Springer, and others.
PIO WENNUBST
Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations organisations in Rome, Switzerland
PIO WENNUBST
Pio Wennubst is assistant director general of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and head of the Global Cooperation Department.
He is a visionary who has worked successfully in promoting sustainable and fair globalisation. Having trained as an agricultural economist, his work involves developing viable solutions for implementing political agreements. After working as managing director of a Swiss chemical company, he moved to the public sector, joining the SDC in 1995. On the strength of many years’ experience in international development diplomacy, in his current position he is successfully mobilising both private companies and individuals to take part in building the ‘new economy’.
Candidature
Il MEM Summer Summit cerca candidati con le seguenti caratteristiche:
- avere un’età compresa tra i 25 e i 35 anni
- provenire dalla regione del Medio Oriente Mediterraneo e dall’Europa e avere un comprovato interesse nella suddetta zona geografica nonché un attivo coinvolgimento nella società
- lavorare in ambiti diversi (business, media, diritti umani, organizzazioni governative e non governative, economia, politica, informatica, cultura, arte, educazio) (business, media, human rights, non-govern- mental organisations, politica, tecnologia, cultura, arte, intrattenimento, istruzione e ricerca)
- essere interessati e disponibili a lavorare a progetti con un approccio “transnazionale”, caratterizzato dall’interazione con partecipanti provenienti da tutta la regione
- con una buona conoscenza della lingua inglese; la conoscenza del francese è un vantaggio
Requisiti
I candidati devono inviare la domanda di ammissione completa sulla piattaforma YCM.
In aggiunta ai formulari da compilare sulla piattaforma, sono richiesti i seguenti documenti:
- Un curriculum vitae aggiornato
- Una lettera di presentazione (massimo 2 pagine) dove si chiede di descrivere gli attuali interessi e progetti inerenti alla regione del Medio Oriente Mediterraneo
- Un breve video in inglese (massimo 2 minuti) per presentarsi, spiegare perché si ritiene essere il candidato ideale e il contributo che si apporterebbe al Summit
- I nomi e i contatti di almeno due persone per le referenze
Scadenza
Martedi 25 maggio 2021
Borse di studio
Per partecipare al MEM Summer Summit 2021 sono disponibili un numero limitato di borse di studio complete o parziali, offerte da sponsor.
Le borse complete coprono i costi di viaggio, alloggio e i costi di partecipazione; le borse parziali coprono i costi di partecipazione e l’alloggio.
La richiesta di finanziamento deve essere effettuata con la candidatura sulla piattaforma YCM.
Informazioni pratiche
Trasporti
A Lugano
In treno: Lugano è una delle principali fermate sull’asse principale europeo nord-sud e può essere raggiunta da molte città europee con collegamenti ferroviari diretti diurni o notturni. Verifica qui i treni e gli orari di partenza aggiornati da/per Lugano.
In aereo: è il modo più rapido per raggiungere Lugano dall’estero. Qui di seguito la lista degli aeroporti vicini:
- Da Milano Malpensa: La linea S50 è il collegamento che unisce il Ticino all’aeroporto di Malpensa. Verifica qui i treni e gli orari di partenza aggiornati. Si possono prenotare i bus diretti su richiesta. Per prenotazioni contattate +41 79 133 53 23 (Giosy Tours).
- Aeroporto di Zurigo: in alternativa è possibile considerare un volo per Zurigo e poi un collegamento ferroviario per Lugano (circa 2 ore di viaggio). I treni diretti dalla stazione centrale di Zurigo a Lugano sono numerosi. Questa è un’occasione per sperimentare il tunnel ferroviario più lungo d’Europa che attraversa il San Gottardo.
Al Campus USI Lugano
In auto: L’Università si trova in via Giuseppe Buffi 13 ed è facilmente raggiungibile in auto. Per accedere al parcheggio sotterraneo dell’Università, si deve superare il semaforo che si trova a destra dell’edificio di vetro del Campus (the LAB). Per raggiungere l’ingresso principale dell’ateneo invece, continuare dritto superando l’entrata del parcheggio sotterraneo e girare nella seconda strada a destra in via Fusoni. Girare nuovamente alla seconda a destra in Via Lambertenghi e continuare dritto fino alla fine della strada, dove si trova l’edificio principale dell’Università.
In bus dalla stazione dei treni: Raggiungere la fermata in faccia alla stazione, prendere il bus numero 6 in direzione Cornaredo e scendere alla fermata “Università” (3 fermate).
In bus dal centro di Lugano: Raggiungere la stazione capolinea dei bus “Lugano Centro”, prendere il bus numero 5 in direzione “Viganello” e scendere alla fermata “Università” (3 fermate).
A piedi (circa 20-25 minuti): Dando le spalle alla stazione, attraversare la strada per raggiungere il ponte pedonale e da qui, seguire la strada in discesa fino ad arrivare a Piazza Cioccaro, continuare a procedere verso sud fino a Piazza Dante. Attraversare Piazza Dante e girare a sinistra in Via Pretorio. Attraversare Via Pretorio e proseguire oltre la stazione capolinea dei bus “Lugano Centro” per prendere Corso Pestalozzi e proseguire fino ad arrivare a un grande autosilo e all’entrata del Parco Ciani. Girare a sinistra in Via Lucchini e continuare a camminare dritto fino all’edificio principale dell’Università (lungo quest’ultimo tragitto, Via Lucchini diventa Via Lambertenghi).