Congressi 2009-2018

Activities 2010-2017
Introduction
Since 2010 the Foundation for World Wide Cooperation has organized, in partnership
with other institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Science, the
Johns Hopkins University SAIS, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the Pontifical
Academy of Sciences, eight major international conferences on four main topics: economic
integration of the African continent, new technology for poverty alleviation, the
role of science diplomacy, the new silk roads, and connectivity as a human right.
The initial four conferences, with the meaningful title Africa: 54 Countries, One
Union, were devoted to discuss the potential gains and feasibility of African integration
and to promote an international debate on this topic. They were organized in Bologna,
Washington, D.C., Addis Ababa, and finally Beijing.
The first conference in Bologna established the political building block of the conferences
by highlighting the importance of integration as a key instrument to foster peace
and prosperity in Africa. In the second conference, the focus was on the empirical analysis
of the benefits of political and economic integration. In the third conference, held in
Addis Ababa, a variety of representatives of states, international organizations, and development
agencies presented concrete and achievable projects in the infrastructure
and market areas that have been created and will be created in the future.
During the final conference in Beijing participants discussed innovative ways of cooperation
among international players and African states and institutions for furthering
the integration of the Continent. These initiatives were designed to make possible the
backing and the development of those projects whose size and political complexity need
a wide international, continental and regional contribution to move forward.
After these conferences on Africa, the Foundation for World Wide Cooperation has continued
to promote debates on themes concerning the fight against poverty, peace, and
human rights. Following the interest of the Foundation for the future of Africa, a major conference
of the Donors for the Revitalisation of Lake Chad was organized in 2014.
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