Category Archives: Education and raising awareness

Education and training are essential for sustainable development, for fighting poverty and conserving natural and cultural heritage. MED-O-MED proposes setting up pedagogic programs and training schemes regarding biodiversity and landscape heritage conservation that improve the living standards of their beneficiaries.

Le catalogue des plantes de l’Ecole de Jardinage Bouregreg

Chers amis, Nous avons le plaisir de vous présenter le catalogue des plantes disponibles à [...]

18
Dec
Offre de travail en formation de jardinage au Maroc

L’Ecole de Jardinage Bouregreg Med-O-Med est un projet de la Fondation de la culture islamique [...]

04
Jun
Un guide de jardinage écologique Med-O-Med

La Fondation de la Culture Islamique (FUNCI), à travers son projet « Ecole de jardinage [...]

02
Jun
At the Salé gardening school, we go for more

The Med-O-Med Gardening School, located in Salé, Morocco, was recently inaugurated for the 2023-2024 academic [...]

03
Nov
For a regenerative landscaping, Med-O-Med seminar

On February16th, the Med-O-Med gardening school in Salé, Morocco, organised a seminar entitled “Towards regenerative [...]

26
Feb
Med-O-Med Gardening School in its fifth year of existence

The Med-O-Med gardening school in Salé, Morocco, is now in its fifth year of operation, [...]

20
Feb
Roundtable on Islam, environment and sustainability

The 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [...]

16
Dec
FUNCI participates in the XXII Madrid Science and Innovation Week

Within the framework of the 22nd Madrid Science and Innovation Week, a round table entitled [...]

05
Nov
Offre d’emploi en formation jardinage

Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer que nous lançons un nouvel appel à candidature [...]

16
Aug
End of course at the gardening school

The Med-O-Med gardening school in Salé, Morocco, an environmental and social project developed by FUNCI, [...]

22
Jun
New horizons for the Med-O-Med School

The year 2021 is coming to an end, and with it, the first quarter of [...]

24
Dec
Fires in Akkar, an urgent need for means in civil society

Lebanon, Algeria, Italy, Greece, Turkey… the entire Mediterranean basin region was plagued by unprecedented wildfires [...]

12
Nov
Climate emergency and the future of the Mediterranean

Alfonso Casani – FUNCI Environmental degradation is leading more and more institutions and countries to [...]

26
Oct
Cultural heritage and training for the sustainability of the M’Hamid Oasis

The NGDO Terrachidia is the latest addition to the Med-O-Med network, cultural landscapes of the [...]

26
Jul
End of the academic year in the School of Gardening Med-O-Med

The academic year 2020-2021 has ended in the School of Gardening Bouregreg Med-O-Med of Salé, [...]

22
Jul
A breath of fresh air from the Med-O-Med School

We have fresh news from the School of gardening Bouregreg Med-O-Med. Fresh and humid, as [...]

11
Feb
Taking action: The School of Gardening Bouregreg

This video presents an interview to Inés Eléxpuru, Director of communication of the Islamic Culture [...]

18
Jan
The School of Gardening Bouregreg, against all odds

We continue to live in times of crisis, and Morocco is no exception. Still, at [...]

04
Oct
Todmorden, the garden-city

Todmorden is considered the most edible town in the world. Located in West Yorkshire, England, [...]

10
Jul
Salé’s School of Gardening, a biodiversity niche

Text and photographs by Inés Eléxpuru – FUNCI We all know what has been and [...]

07
Jun
Flowering news from the School of Gardening of Morocco

We are already in 2020 and it is time to review our progress. Since the [...]

24
Feb
The new academic year kicks off at the School of Gardening!

Family grows. On October 1st, first-grade students joined in, along with those entering second grade [...]

08
Oct
A workshop on Al-Andalus’ aromatic plants for children

A natural environment in the middle of Madrid and young-but-demanding participants were the perfect scene [...]

15
Jul
Museum of Environmental History

The Islamic Culture Foundation (FUNCI), through its Med-O-Med network, just signed an agreement with the [...]

07
Jun
Andalusi scents at the Community Orchard Magerit

On the occasion of the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, last [...]

29
May
Santiago Beruete and his philosophy of nature and gardens

“The 99.7% of biomass is vegetal, against only the 3%, which are animals. We tend [...]

22
Apr
The School of Gardening Bouregreg Med-O-Med keeps moving forward

Last October 2018 began the first academic year of the School of Gardening Bouregreg Med-O-Med [...]

23
Mar
The impact of climate change in the Mediterranean

At the beginning of 2019, Science magazine published an alarming article, written by the Chinese [...]

11
Feb
In our School, there’s Peace

Inés Eléxpuru, Islamic Culture Foundation, 21st November 2018 Translation: Nigel Balfour Last October our school [...]

21
Nov
The School of Gardening of Salé at the “Chant des colibris”

The American-Indian legend tells that, when the forest began to burn, a hummingbird jumped into [...]

09
Oct