Develop activities and initiatives in order to achieve - based on peace, dialogue and tolerance - balanced economic, and sustainable social development and the promotion of a greater knowledge and understanding of the different cultures, of the different religions, and of the peoples of the Mediterranean.
Inspired by the creation of a holiday in 2007 in Lebanon, which celebrated the occasion of the common feast of the Annunciation, in March 2015 Efesia initiated a gathering of more than 800 Christians and Muslims in the Basilica of Longpont sur Orge to celebrate Marie - Myiram under the title: "Together with Mary". Today, Efesia provides animation and federates the group "Together with Mary".
Provide the practical support required to counter religious prejudice, conflict and extremism in order to promote an open-minded and stable society.
Build mutual trust and understanding through unique person-to-person programmes and activities in the region.
Foster interfaith and intercultural dialogue, stimulate thinking and exchange of opinions on supporting and fostering democracy and peace all over the world and provide a common platform for education and information exchange; promote peace in the world and contribute to a peaceful coexistence of the adherents of different faiths, cultures, ethnicities and races; promote education, exchange of information, opinions and expertise, with a special focus on including as diverse a range of viewpoints as possible in our activities; organize conferences, seminars, panel discussions, common projects, scholarships, publications, meetings, trips and several other activities; promote the Fountain Magazine in Nigeria which is an initiative magazine of science and spiritual thought and bimonthly periodical, exploring life and our existence from a wide scholarship of humanities, natural sciences and perspectives on faith.
Foster knowledge, interfaith dialogue and cooperation between different faiths in Catalonia, from the perspective of the culture of dialogue and peace.
Strengthen the contribution of higher education institutions to education and research concerning the main cultural and religious principles of harmony and unity in a multi-ethnic and pluri-religious State; educate young people in a spirit of peace and tolerance, solidarity and intercultural and interfaith dialogue; ensure training of specialists able to exercise influence over the development of the cultural process in various aspects (social, religious, political, aesthetic); study the role and dynamics of cultural, spiritual and religious factors in the formation of the national identity of Kyrgyzstan; develop solutions to cultural conflicts and establish a basis for the formation of a tolerant democratic society.
Promote interfaith understanding through the study of comparative religion, and the transmission of specific intercultural skills such as mediation and dialogue.
Improve and promote strategies of leading cross- and inter-cultural dialogues aimed at withstanding any form of discrimination or violence, securing creative patterns existing in the framework of traditional cultures, and contribute to amplification of global culture of peaceful co-existence and sustainable development; improve and promote strategies of leading inter- and pluri-religious dialogues, directed at appeasement of open or latent contradictions, frictions or conflicts between adherents of different religious or spiritual practices, introducing values of these subcultures into comparative scientific research and societal debate; improve and promote transdisciplinary methodologies, regarded as indispensable tools of leading creative and innovative dialogue over traditionally defined and delimited borders between different scientific and/or philosophical disciplines, religious and/or spiritual doctrines, as well as different forms of social activism and inter-communal discourse.
Constitute a digital database of authors who have played a major role in the peaceful coexistence of the three monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) in Sicily (7th to 20th centuries); create a critical edition of the Passio Agathae, which constitutes an enlightening testimony on Christian-Jewish relations in Sicily in the early centuries; create a directory of the translations of Christian texts from Latin to Greek (3rd to 16th centuries) which aims to provide a basic research tool; organize education activities with the "Fondazione Oasi Città Aperta" chaired by Father Luigi Orazio Ferlauto.
