Michelangelo Baracchi Bonvicini
Michelangelo Baracchi Bonvicini is President of the Permanent Platform of Atomium Culture launched publicly together with the former French President and Honorary President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing on the 27th of November 2009 at the European Parliament.[1]
Early life
Bonvicini, an English and Italian citizen, was born in London and grew up in Italy. At fifteen he left school and continued his classical studies privately. He graduated in History at the University of Bologna.[2]
At eighteen he left for Kosovo where he reported the war in Kosovo (1999) for the Italian editorial group Quotidiano Nazionale,[3] beginning his activity as a foreign correspondence, which brought him to stay first in Kosovo, Albania and Montenegro, then in Israel and Palestine during the second Intifada (2002) and in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran, following the US invasion of Afghanistan (2003). In 2003 he published the book Sognando Gerusalemme[4] resulting from his stay in Israel and Palestine in 2002. After 2003 he ceased his activities as journalist, and dedicated himself to research, with special attention to European issues.
Atomium Culture
From April 2004 to December 2005 he planned an independent, supranational and non-profit organization for exchange and dissemination of research among the actors of a knowledge society. In January 2006, Atomium Culture was formally founded.
For three years from 2006, he promoted and coordinated the start-up of Atomium Culture that was kept confidential until the public launch on 27 November 2009, when he and Giscard d’Estaing presented the Permanent Platform of Atomium Culture at the European Parliament in Brussels, during its first annual conference.[5][6]
In 2011, Baracchi Bonvicini and the former President of France Giscard d’Estaing received the medal “Plus Ratio Quam Vis” from the Polish university Jagiellonian University for “their contribution to the European academic community by founding Atomium Culture”.[7][8] The medal was first awarded in 1997 to mark the 600th anniversary of the university's re-foundation to Pope John Paul II.
In September 2012, during the negotiations regarding the EU budget for 2014-2020, Baracchi Bonvicini and Giscard d’Estaing together with Felipe González Márquez, as new Chairman of the Advisory Board of Atomium Culture and former Prime Minister of Spain, jointly signed the appeal “For a European Consciousness, For a More Competitive Europe” published by numerous European newspapers including Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,[9] El País,[10] Il Sole 24 Ore[11] and The Irish Times.[12]
References
- ↑ http://www.europolitics.info/sectorial-policies/official-launch-of-platform-for-european-excellence-art255918-18.html
- ↑ http://atomiumculture.eu/node/124?phpMyAdmin=fc4d2b4eaet349f365b
- ↑ http://qn.quotidiano.net/
- ↑ OPAC SBN
- ↑ http://www.uam.es/ss/Satellite/es/1234886377756/1242648365859/generico/generico/Plataforma_permanente_para_la_excelencia_europea_Atomium_Culture.htm
- ↑ http://www.parlement.com/9353000/1/j9vvh6nf08temv0/viaecp9l60wf
- ↑ http://www.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/uniwersytet/aktualnosci/kalendarz/-/journal_content/56_INSTANCE_dPA0/10172/4383752?day=20110912
- ↑ http://www.uj.edu.pl/documents/10172/cc33e36f-709e-4916-8d9c-232b7944e984
- ↑ http://m.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/atomium-culture/atomium-culture-ein-appell-for-a-european-consciousness-for-a-more-competitive-europe-11896944.html
- ↑ http://elpais.com/elpais/2012/07/11/opinion/1341997592_372384.html
- ↑ http://www.confindustria.toscana.it/notizia/uneuropa-piu-cosciente-competitiva
- ↑ http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0910/1224323797431.html
