| Affiliation with other organizations: |
The Foundation is also affiliated to the Associação Rio Grandense de Fundações (http://www.arf.org.br), which is a civil, non-profit organization created on June 26, 1995, in Porto Alegre, to strengthen, assemble and orient within the foundational principles, entities associated with it. This Association integrates the Brazilian Confederation of Foundations. Its parameters help the Foundation Antonio Meneghetti to always direct its actions towards a better society for all, mainly for people from the rural area and also youth, which are some of the scopes of actuation of the Foundation. In the field of Social Development, it is one more time important to indicate, the partnership with the Faculty Antonio Meneghetti (www.faculdadeam.edu.br), an institution of higher education that acts in the countryside of Brazil bringing a series of social responsibility projects to the rural area and showing results that are known also internationally (http://www.odm.faculdadeam.edu.br/). |
| Publications: |
In this matter, the projects supported by the Foundation Antonio Meneghetti in partnership with Antonio Meneghetti Faculty have been subject of articles published in scientific publications, such as the ones that follows: Project Flute - Music and Human Fostering (2010) http://www.ontopsicologia.org.br//arquivos/download/xv_endipe___projeto_flauta_musica_e_formacao_humana___antonio_meneghetti_faculdade_ok.pdf Educational Principles of a Intercultural Project for a Global Society (2009) http://www.ontopsicologia.org.br//arquivos/download/aric2009___principios_educacionais_de_um_projeto_intercultural_para_uma_sociedade_globalizada___recanto_maestro___abo.pdf The Responsibility of Brazilian Youth as Element of Intercultural Development in the Globalization (1999) http://www.ontopsicologia.org.br//arquivos/download/1272108789.pdf The socioeconomical development as a propellant of the change of vision of the world (2009) http://www.ontopsicologia.org.br//arquivos/download/aric2009___o_desenvolvimento_socioeconomico_como_propulsor_da_mudanca_da_visao_de_mundo___artigo.0485___associacao_brasileira_de_ontopsicologia_ok.pdf Also the main publication of the Faculty Antonio Meneghetti, the magazine "Saber Humano", which is in its first number was published by the first time at 2011 by the institution and has the support of the Foundation. It brings some articles about real cases of action of these two entities: http://www.faculdadeam.edu.br/_arquivos/e4f8561668e0f27f84a684a40bb6f6b4.pdf The next magazine will be published in this year of 2012. |
| Activities relevant to the conference of States Parties to the convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: |
Some of the projects developed by Foundation Antonio Meneghetti and that help the civil society, youth, employment and families are: - Project Flute: which brings the teaching of sweet flute to 150 children of basic schools of the public network of São João do Polêsine (city which is close to the headquarters of the Foundation); - Project Friends of the Guitar: takes free classes of guitar to students of the public high school of São João do Polêsine; - Project Professional for the Fostering of Teachers of Music – teaches to the teachers of the schools of the regions how to teach Music to the Young. In this way these teachers help their schools to be in accordance to the Brazilian law that determines that, beginning on 2012, all public schools must have teachers of Music. - Project School Light: supports and offers teachers with PhD to lecture in courses of life long learning for teachers of the public schools of the city of Restinga Sêca developed by the City Hall of Restinga Sêca, as well as, by the sectional of the Public Ministry of Brazil responsible for this region. - Project Young Identity: through this project are performed classes of professional development for the young students that live and work in the region where the Foundation has its headquartes. The fostering of young leaderships is performed at Recanto Maestro for more than 20 years now. This methodology is shown in a documentary "Young Identity - The humanistic fostering of youth as a guaranty of sustainability, identity and civil protagonism " performed with the support of the Ministry of Culture of Brazil (www.identidadejovem.com.br). This film, was played in free exhibitions throughout the country and also distributed for public schools and libraries, is also part of the calendar of the UN Youth Year: http://social.un.org/absolutewc/?e=489&c=0. It was a production of 2010 from the Brazilian Association of Ontopsychology in partnership to the Faculty Antonio Meneghetti and the Foundation Antonio Meneghetti. Among its interviews there is one with the Assistant Director General for Education of UNESCO – Mr. Quian Tang, the former representant of UNESCO in Brazil, Mr. Vincenti Defourny, besides the Brazilian Senator, Mr. Cristovam Buarque. - Magazine Performance Leader – produced in the district where the foundation is located and with the cultural support of this entity, the magazine (www.performancelider.com.br) aims to foment the Brazilian leadership and to cultivate the plurality, identity and democracy of Brazilian way of being. In its last edition, the magazine brought special articles on sustainable development, including one explaining to its readers about the UNCSD. Through the interviews of this mentioned edition there are exclusive ones with: Executive Coordinator of UNCSD, Mr. Brice Lalonde, Director of the Earth Institute, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Anthropologist and Sociologist, Professor Edgar Morin, Senator of Brazil, Professor Cristovam Buarque, President of Foundation Odebrecht, Mr. Norberto Odebrecht. All the magazine is performed by a young group of professionals and the publication is distributed to all country. |
| Confirmation of the activities of the organization at the regional, national or international level: |
Some videos can show the work already developed by the projects Flute and Friends of the Guitar. One of them is this one recorded from a performance made by the special group of the two projects during the International Congress Responsibility and Responsibility (www.reciprocidade.org.br), in 2011, in Recanto Maestro: http://vimeo.com/32932822. Also this video shows about Project Flute and turned out possible for this project to win a prize of videos for social responsibility offered by the campaign Responsible Teaching of ABMES (Brazilian Association of Keepers of Higher Education): http://dia.abmes.org.br/NovaEstrutura/_subSites/er2011/Videos/IESvideo.asp?CodVideo=613 Also, all the actions of social responsibility performed by the Foundation Antonio Meneghetti in partnership with the Faculty Antonio Meneghetti are presented at the website http://www.odm.faculdadeam.edu.br. There is possible to see pictures of the meeting gathered in Paris, in 2010, when these projects were presented at the Economic, Social and Environmental Council of the Republic of France to a group of international experts. Also the International Congresso Responsibility and Reciprocity: Social Values for a Sustainable Economy (www.reciprocidade.org.br) can be seen as an action that contributed to the intellectual and cultural fostering of the community of the region, bringing debates that are rarely seen in the countryside. |
| A list of members of the governing body of the organization, and their countries of nationality: |
Foundation Antonio Meneghetti has a group of 12 councilors. Besides these members there is a wide range of professors, students and volunteer collaborators that make the projects of the Foundation come true. Among the councilors and main staff are: - Councilor Cesar Balarine Cavalheiro Leite, 42, is founder and CEO of Processor Group, set of nine companies focused on information technology based on many countries. - Councilor Claudia Montenegro is consultant and manager, trained in Psychology from FMU and Sciences, in USP. Post-graduated in Business Consulting for USP and student of Master in Business (Mackenzie). - Councilor Telmo Costa is founding partner and president of Meta Group, a major group of IT of Brazil. Member of Brazil Competitive Movement, member of Young President Organization, Director of Junior Achievement, former President of the Institute of Business Studies. - Councilor Any Rothmann is director of Hotel Capo Zorial, administrator of the International Centre for Art and Humanist Culture Recanto Maestro, coordinator of Marketing of Faculty Antonio Meneghetti.. - Councilor / Administrative Vice-President Soraia Schutel - Administrator of the International Centre for Art and Humanist Culture Recanto Maestro. Brazilian representative of the International Association of Ontopychology to the United Nations, PhD student in Management (UFRGS), researcher in Sustainable Development and Management. - Councilor Leticia Batistela is corporate lawyer, partner of LB Juridical Consulting in IT, Legal Director of ASSESPRO. University teacher in Faculty of Taquara and Faculty Antonio Meneghetti. - Councilor Érico Azevedo is businessman, graduate student in Philosophy (PUC / SP). Postgraduate in Ontopsychology by the State University of St. Petersburg, Russia. Translator of scientific papers from Italian to Portuguese. Professor of undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Faculty Antonio Meneghetti. - Reginete Regia Pancieri - Master in Engineering and Knowledge Management (UFSC), specialist in Psychology with address in Ontopsichology by the State University of St. Petersburg, in Russia; management specialist in treasury and government auditing, bachelor in Economics (UFSC), Professor of the Faculty Antonio Meneghetti, UNOESC, UNISUL, and UFSC. - Councilor Wesley Lacerda is entrepreneur and consultant, graduated in Economics from UFRGS, a specialist in Psychology with address in Ontopsychology at the State University of St. Petersburg, Russia. Partner, Vice President of Operations and People and member of the board of the Meta Group, FOIL Partner, international consultant. - Councilor Ari Foletto is president of Foletto Alimentos, president and Chairman of the Brazilian Association of Ontopsychology and owner of Agricultural Foletto. Specialist in Psychology with address in Ontopsychology by the State University of St. Petersburg, Russia. - Councilor Antonio Meneghetti is founder of the ontopsychological school, science born formally at the Faculty of Philosophy at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Agelicum) in Rome, Italy, with discipline Ontopsychology of Man, which started in the year 1970-1973. Academic by the International Academy of Informatization of the UN; Honorary Physics (Pro Deo University of New York, 1994). Author of more than 40 books translated into different languages. Founded the International Association of Ontopsychology. - Councilor/President Roberto Argenta is businessman, president of Calçados Beira Rio, former congressman of Brazil. - General Secretary Bruna Marquetti Dallepiane is bachelor in Tourism and in Business. Specialized in Human Resources and Marketing. Coordinator of OIKOS Project. Now occupy the post of Executive Secretary of the Foundation Antonio Meneghetti. |
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