28th INTERNATIONAL MEETING FOR PEACE

Ega for the Sant’Egidio Community

06 Sep 2015 - 08 Sep 2015

This event is the development of an idea which originated from His Holiness Pope John Paul II, who, in 1986, invited sixty religious leaders to Assisi for a "world prayer day". Since then, the Sant'Egidio Community has taken over the duty of spreading the "spirit of Assisi", around the planet and an annual interfaith meeting is organised in different European cities.

The 28th International Meeting entitled "Peace is always possible” was organised by the Sant'Egidio Community in collaboration with the Albanian Bishops' Conference, the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania and the Government of Albania.

Twenty years after the end of the war in the Balkans, Tirana became the world capital for dialogue between religions, hosting religious leaders and intellectuals from all over the world as well as many thousands of pilgrims with different languages and cultures.

Challenges

Ega Solutions

Challenges

Coordination of hundreds of religious leaders, speakers and intellectuals who came from different countries in the world together with the enthusiastic audience of young Albanians who attended the event.

Ega Solutions

Ega chose to plan the entire event in detail, travelling to Albania for several pre-event inspections, together with a dedicated team of project managers and professional technicians, who worked on site for the entire occasion, creating a good relationship of mutual cooperation with suppliers and local stakeholders

Challenges

Organisation of 27 panels on the most topical and burning issues: the tragedies of migration, conflicts in Syria, Libya, Iraq and Lebanon, the environmental and social crisis, the relationship between religion and violence, global solidarity, unity for Christians, and ecology.

Ega Solutions

Ega’s long experience in the creation of institutional events gave active support to the local authorities and to the Sant’ Egidio Community especially in the management of the most complex organisational aspects such as security, public order, registration and protocol for important religious and political representatives from around the world

Challenges

Management, in a coordinated manner, of the different locations scattered around the city centre of Tirana: the Orthodox Cathedral, the Tirana International Hotel, the National History Museum, the Congress Palace, Hotel Rogner, the National Gallery of Modern Art and the Polytechnic University of Tirana.

Ega Solutions

Ega’s highly qualified and professional team with years of experience in managing major events eased the coordination of work in the different locations during the event, including an on-site transportation programme, from the start up for the premises as well as the supply of technical services