Frequently Asked Questions
The ‘1001 Actions’ programme runs from 1st of January to 31st of December 2008, the Euro-Mediterranean Year of Intercultural Dialogue. The month of May 2008 is the major month of action for the campaign with the Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue Night event.
The Year 2008 has been designated as the Euro-Mediterranean Year of Intercultural Dialogue. As the principal institution for dialogue in the Euro-Mediterranean region, the Anna Lindh Foundation, its National Networks and partners have a unique opportunity to unite together under one banner for dialogue and to promote the role cultural dialogue can play in challenging key issues at the start of the twenty-first century.
Any activity or event taking place in one of the thirty-seven Euro-Mediterranean countries that promotes knowledge and understanding of people from different social and cultural backgrounds. An activity that is non-passive, i.e. an activity which allows participants to have a real dialogue and exchange with other people from social or cultural backgrounds different to their own.
The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership brings together the twenty-seven member states of the European Union and its ten Southern Mediterranean partner countries. The Euro-Med countries are: Greece ; Israel; Palestine; Turkey; United Kingdom; Egypt; Estonia; Jordan; Latvia; Lebanon; Lithuania; Slovakia; Slovenia; Syria; Czech Republic; Cyprus; Hungary; Italy; Malta; Poland; Portugal; Spain; Bulgaria; Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Netherlands; Romania; Sweden; Algeria; Austria; Belgium; France; Germany; Luxembourg; Morocco; Tunisia
The Anna Lindh Foundation launched an open micro-grant scheme in December 2007 to support civil society groups in developing actions under the campaign banner ‘1001 Actions for Dialogue’. The deadline of the call was 31st of January 2008.
The Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue Night event will take place on Thursday 22 May 2008, exactly one week before the first Euro-Mediterranean Ministers of Culture meeting in Greece.
While this campaign is being developed by the Foundation and its Networks, anyone in the region, including those working in civil society and the wider public, can be involved in the ‘1001 Actions’ campaign. You can do this through participating in one of the activities taking place in May 2008, participating in the ‘Dialogue Night’, developing an idea for action to be implemented in May 2008, promoting the campaign and its messages to people in your community.
In addition, if you are a civil society organization based in the Euro-Mediterranean region and working for the promotion of dialogue, you can join one of the Networks of the Anna Lindh Foundation.
Today, the Anna Lindh National Networks bring together over 1500 civil society organizations from all sectors of civil society.
You can join one of the National Networks by logging on to
You can submit your proposed idea for action via the online platform (www.1001actions.org), via your designated support officer (see website) or via info@1001actions.org. The staff member responsible for following your action will then be in contact to confirm your action has been registered and provide you will a resource pack to support you in developing your action.
Any organization or individual who registers an action under the campaign banner will receive the following support:
- Access to the ‘1001’ platform and the ability to develop your action in collaboration with other groups across the thirty-seven actions
- A space on the ‘1001’ platform and calendar of action to promote your activity, in addition to your organization and more general work
- A space in the official publication on ‘1001 Actions’ which will be distributed internationally
- Support in promoting your event and activity at the national and regional level
- Regular updates on the campaign in all thirty-seven countries of the Euro-Med Partnership
Once the online platform is launched, you will have the opportunity to promote your action to other members of the National Networks of the Anna Lindh Foundation, and partners.
There are many different ways members of the National Networks and partners can promote the campaign, including:
- telling friends and colleagues about the campaign
- developing an idea for action
- labializing an activity under the banner of ‘1001 Actions’
- institutional patronage for the event and campaign
Dialogue between people, and intercultural coexistence, is one of the main challenges at the start of the twenty-first century. This issue is especially important to the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, the far-reaching political framework between the European Union and its partners in the southern Mediterranean region, which created the Anna Lindh Foundation and which embraces the values of the ‘1001 Actions’ campaign/
Principal objectives of the campaign include:
- to connect the disparate initiatives and actions for dialogue which are taking place in the Euro-Med region
- to raise the visibility of the organizations, individuals and actions for dialogue in the region
- to create a sense of community across the thirty-seven National Networks of the Anna Lindh Foundation
- to demonstrate the level of visibility and impact that can be achieved through collective action
- to raise the importance of dialogue work within civil society and the wider public
