CIHEAM Bari, Port Museum of Tricase and the Municipal School of Lateen Sailing and Seamanship, in collaboration with Magna Grecia Mare Association, Tricase Municipality and Fratelli della Costa – Tricase, organise the event “Friendship Knots: international gathering of knot-tiers, rope-makers and sail-riggers” on 19-20-21-22 March 2020. During the gathering, knot-tiers, rope-makers and sail-riggers of national and international panorama will illustrate and teach, with simple and playful methods, the great variety of knots still used today, in addition to the artistic and ornamental knots and...

The ancient art of basket making and the skill of the old “nassari” (fish trap makers) and the basket makers who still know the ancient techniques of it, were the undisputed protagonists, yesterday, of the Date with TRAMARE event. The event wanted to enhance and rediscover the ancient art of weaving reeds and suckers, now preserved in the memory of a few elderly people, with the aim of perpetuating their technique. Born to respond to the need to transport objects and products of any nature, as well as to create efficient traps for fishing, this ancient art has been perfected over the centuries,...

The Advanced Course on the Sustainable Development of Coastal Communities (SDCC) began this morning at MARE Outpost. The training course, which began last week in Valenzano, at the CIHEAM Bari headquarters, is funded by the Italian Cooperation and activated by CIHEAM Bari, in collaboration with FAO, in the context of the Blue Hope Initiative. This first edition of the course is aimed at ministerial officials from Albania, Algeria, Bosnia – Herzegovina, Egypt, Kenya, Lebanon, Mauritania, Mozambique, Somalia and Tunisia and aims to strengthen the capacities of the countries involved in planning...