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Day: 16 May 2019

Peace and Sport and My Coach Sport team up

by: Cassandra Tanti
16/05/2019

The Monaco-based organisation Peace and Sport and My Coach Sport have signed a three-year partnership to promote peace through sport. The collaboration aims to develop a digital solution for sport to be used as a tool for social cohesion and peace in an easy-to-use and adaptable way.

Joël Bouzou, President and Founder of Peace and Sport and Cédric Messina, CEO of My Coach Sport

The French start-up will digitise Peace and Sport methodology, also known as Sport Simple Solutions, in order to equip coaches, teachers and animators with adapted digital solutions spreading peace-through-sport training and knowledge. The first development of the app’ will focus on peace through football, and other sports are expected to follow.

“We are glad to partner with My Coach Sport in this challenging project,” said Joël Bouzou, President and Founder of Peace and Sport. “We will articulate our expertise in field programs with My Coach Sport’s digital know-how to produce a fantastic tool adapted to technological trends. Starting the development of the app with a focus on football comes at a strategic time considering 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. It will be an exciting demonstration of how football can foster social inclusion and gender equity.”

The digital solution will be tested in different contexts where Peace and Sport implements its field programs, especially in Colombia, the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan and in the African Great Lakes region. It will be officially launched during the Peace and Sport International Forum held in Monaco from 11th to 13th December 2019.

According to Cédric Messina, CEO of My Coach Sport , this collaboration illustrates a growing interest in investing in sport as a tool for peace.

“We thank President Joel Bouzou and his teams for choosing us to accompany them in this great peaceful impulse through sport and the dissemination of good practices to all, regardless of discipline, social background, geopolitical context or religion,” said Mr Messina. “Hearing about the digitisation project in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan or in the African Great Lakes region reminds us why we created My Coach Sport and why we work for it every day.”

In addition to opening up market opportunities, the partnership is expected to help My Coach Sport develop strategic relations with international bodies and personalities of the peace-through-sport movement.

 

Exhibition: ‘Monaco 6 May 1955. The Story of a Meeting’

by: Cassandra Tanti
16/05/2019

Prince Albert has officially opened an exhibition dedicated to how his mother Princess Grace and father Prince Rainier met and fell in love. ‘Monaco, 6 May 1955. The Story of a Meeting’ can be discovered at the State Rooms of the Palace of Monaco until 15th October 2019.

Prince Albert opened the exhibition on 13th May 2019. Photo: Prince’s Palace of Monaco

Organised by the Palace Archives and the Monaco Audiovisual Institute, this unique exhibition puts into context and offers a perspective on the first meeting between American actress Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III of Monaco in this, the year of the 90th anniversary of Grace Kelly’s birth.

Grace Kelly won an Oscar for best actress in March 1955 for her role in The Country Girl, a year after filming To Catch a Thief on the French Riviera, which included the legendary scene shot above Monaco.

Guest star of the 8th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, Grace Kelly agreed to change her schedule for a last-minute meeting with the Prince of Monaco on the afternoon of 6th May 1955.

Organised by Pierre Galante, a journalist at Paris Match, the meeting, which almost never happened, was immortalised by the magazine’s photographer, Michel Simon, as well as Irish photographer Edward Quinn, who had been working in the Riviera at the time.

These photos are being exhibited together for the first time. Posed or taken on the fly, the pictures, of different formats, demonstrate the technical and artistic quality of the work of the press photographers.

Designed as a photographic journey through the State Rooms of the Palace of Monaco, the exhibition retraces the steps of Grace Kelly, in the very places where she met Prince Rainier, with the dress she wore at the time, along with personal items, letters, testimonials, newspaper clippings and films.

Less than a year after this fleeting but decisive meeting, Prince Rainier III married Grace Patricia Kelly in Monaco on 18th and 19th April 1956.

For more information, visit: https://www.palais.mc/en/museum-and-visits/the-state-apartments-1-26.html

 

MEB leads Bavaria business operation

by: Cassandra Tanti
16/05/2019

Monaco has led a promotional operation to Bavaria and it is expected to deliver concrete results for business.

Left to right: Justin Highman Director Monaco Invest, Dr Alexander Liegl Monaco’s Honorary Consul in Munich, Dr Eberhard Sasse President of the Association of Bavarian Chambers of Commerce, Guillaume Rose MEB Executive Director General, Sarah Zerlaut Manager of the Destination Monaco office in Germany, and Dr Alexander Lau Deputy General Director of Foreign Affairs. Photo: DR / MEB

The Monaco Economic Board delegation led by its new Executive Director General Guillaume Rose met its counterparts from the Bavarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Friday 10th May. The aim was to determine potential avenues for collaboration between one of the wealthiest regions in Europe and the Principality of Monaco.

Thanks to joint collaboration between the Destination Monaco office in Germany, Monaco’s Honorary Consul in Munich lawyer Alexander Liegl, and Monaco’s Ambassador in Germany Isabelle Berro-Amadeï, a top level meeting took place with the Association of Bavarian Chambers of Commerce President Dr Eberhard Sasse and Deputy Director General of Foreign Affairs Alexander Lau.

Monaco Invest Director Justin Highman presented the many, sometimes unexpected, advantages of doing business in the Principality, including its hi-tech and innovation capabilities.

A visit by leading figures from the Bavarian business authorities is planned before the end of 2019, and an MEB Trade Mission to Bavaria for spring 2020.

From left to right: Lorenzo Ravano, First Counselor to the Monaco Embassy in Austria; Cecilia Bartoli; Berro-Amadei, Ambassador of Monaco to Austria; Christian Dorda, Honorary Consul of Monaco in Austria and Guillaume Rose, Executive Director of MEB © DR

The meeting followed a concert by Cecilia Bartoli and the Musicians of the Palace, dedicated to Antonio Vivaldi and under the musical direction of Gianluca Capuano. The Monaco Embassy in Austria, the MEB and the representative office of the Directorate of Tourism and Congress (DTC) in Austria, invited nearly 60 personalities from diplomatic and economic circles to attend.

Transition Forum: accelerating solutions to save our planet

by: Cassandra Tanti
16/05/2019

A forum aimed at speeding up the world’s transition to clean energy is once again being held in Monaco this June. Backed by Prince Albert II, the Transition Forum aims to increase funding for innovative technologies so they can be implemented before it’s too late.

Following a successful launch last year, the Transition Forum will return on 26th and 27th June at the Fairmont Monte Carlo. It will bring together around 350 participants including global business leaders, policymakers, investors, innovators, scientists and members of civil society, to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon future through investment and collaborative climate action.

The theme this year is ‘Shifting towards sustainable lifestyles’, focusing on how people and organisations around the world are responding to the ecological transition. It will feature over 50 renowned international speakers, and 20 international startups will focus on new models for sustainable development in food, mobility, housing, and production and consumption.

“If we do not act today, we will no longer be able to act tomorrow,” said Prince Albert during the inaugural forum.

“Global warming is compromising the future of humanity and we must create a new model of sustainable, low-carbon economic development before it is too late,” adds Lionel le Maux, President of Aqua Asset Management and Co-Founder of Transition Forum. “Our objectives are to increase the cross-sector partnerships and investments needed to scale innovative solutions which are key to helping the world achieve its sustainable development goals.”

Five networking sessions will be held to connect international decision makers from multiple sectors and disciplines around the verticals: cities and territories, corporates, startups, foundations, and Monaco.

Register online here: https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/transition-forum-tickets-59890073823

Enter the promotional code: TF19MLIFE to receive 30% discount off tickets.

For more information about TRANSITION Forum visit: www.transitionmonacoforum.com

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More progress needed to achieve “clean” maritime transport

by: Cassandra Tanti
16/05/2019

Monaco is taking part in an international gathering in London which is focussed on increasing maritime safety and reducing pollution at sea.

Isabelle Rosabrunetto, Permanent Representative of Monaco to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and Armelle Roudaut-Lafon, Deputy Permanent Representative © DR

The permanent representatives of Monaco to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Isabelle Rosabrunetto and Armelle Roudaut-Lafon are participating in the 74th Session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee, which is being held from 13th to 17th May.

The Marine Environment Protection Committee is an International Maritime Organisation body whose mission is to define best practices in maritime transport in order to prevent pollution and preserve biodiversity in the seas and oceans. It is in charge of seeking consensus and arbitrating in the divergences existing between States and private companies, particularly with regard to standards for the emission of greenhouse gases from ships.

In line with its commitments to marine protection, representatives from Monaco travelled to London to take part in the meeting, which is organised at the headquarters of IMO, the UN agency specialising in maritime affairs.

Despite the establishment of numerous international conventions, particularly in the area of maritime transport safety and the prevention of pollution at sea, more progress is needed to achieve “clean” maritime transport.