2nd Edition of Mediterranean Awards

The Mediterranean Awards were created in 2021 in line with the “New Agenda for the Mediterranean” which was approved that year, with the idea of relaunching and strengthening the strategic association between the European Union and its Southern partners, constituting a powerful tool in order to join forces in search for common responses to global challenges and making visible the best practices in the Mediterranean in the areas included in the European and Mediterranean Agendas.

The objective of these Awards, which are born with the intention of lasting over time, is to recognize the projects as well as the work of people and/or institutions, companies and other organisations that with their trajectory have contributed to boosting the Mediterranean identity, promoting sustainable and integrated development on all its shores, fostering peace, intercultural and interreligious dialogue in the Mediterranean basin, focusing on the elements that are common to everyone in order to overcome what separates everyone.

Categories

• Category 1. Institutional Awards for projects, institutions, companies or other organisations, as well as for persons.
  • Mediterranean Digital Award (MDA). This award recognises the contribution to increasing competitiveness or improving services thanks to digitalisation.
  • Mediterranean Green Award (MGA). This award recognises the contribution to reducing the ecological footprint or environmental impact in the Mediterranean and making it a more sustainable space.
  • Mediterranean Women’s Award (MWA). This award recognises the contribution to promoting the empowerment of women at all levels of economic, cultural, scientific or academic activity, participating in the reduction in the Mediterranean of existing obstacles to the access of women, especially those in rural areas, to all their potential and resources, without discrimination on the grounds of gender.
  • Mediterranean Solidarity Award (MSA). This award recognises the contribution to sponsoring solidarity actions or reducing the economic, social, cultural and academic or any other kind of gap between the different shores of the Mediterranean.
  • Mediterranean Identity Award (MIA). This award recognises the contribution to promoting the values, traditions, aspirations and attitudes of the peoples bathed by the Mediterranean, helping to enhance and highlight their distinctive features, the relations between their people, creativity, arts and sciences, as well as the ideas that, over the centuries, have shaped the Mediterranean way of life.
• Category 2. Ad personam Award.
  • Mediterranean of the Year Award (MAY). This award recognises the trajectory of a person or a group of people for their involvement, commitment, and dedication in making the Mediterranean a better space in any of the category 1 areas.

Criteria

• Candidates can submit their own nominations directly or be proposed by a third party in one or both of the existing categories. Nominations may be submitted by national, regional or local governments; academic or cultural institutions; members of the jury, companies and other organisations or any person acting on his/her own behalf, from anywhere in the world. Jury members themselves will not be admissible as candidates. Applications from projects in the first stages of development or whose completion finished more than 3 years ago will not be admissible.
• The winning persons, institutions, companies and other organisations must necessarily belong to one of the following Mediterranean riparian countries: Spain, France, Monaco, Italy, Malta, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. Likewise, Jordan and Mauritania are included as members of ARLEM (The Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly) and Portugal.

For more information, visit Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation.