Editorial

Maurizio Raeli Ciheam Bari Director As Director of CIHEAM Bari, I am very pleased to present the redesigned editorial formula and layout of this journal which has been a flagship of our Institute’s activities for more than twenty years. When it was first launched in December 1990, the journal’s name was Medit. The opening editorial of the first issue, entitled “Why Medit?” was written by Cosimo Lacirignola, then Director of CIHEAM Bari and Editor-in-Chief of the journal, who has recently passed away. His ideas for the new journal mirrored his peculiar view of a Mediterranean cooperation and dialogue for which he tirelessly strived along his whole career. “Why Medit?” explained how the journal intended to represent the evolution of a path of dialogue in the Mediterranean scientific and institutional scenario; its aim was to go beyond information in order to foster an exchange of views and knowledge. In 2002, the journal was redesigned and renamed New Medit; its publisher, layout and cover were changed. Since then, the journal has been published quarterly thanks to the valuable collaboration of Giulio Malorgio, full professor at the University of Bologna.