Catholics and Orthodox theologians, university teachers and representatives of Rondine Cittadella della Pace met on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th September in Arezzo for the "Sorgenti" project. This project addresses ecumenical dialogue, particularly desired by Mons. Pierre Duprey, secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity for many years, who passed away in 1998 after a life committed to dialogue between the Christian confessions.

Since 2000 "Sorgenti" has been chaired by Franco Vaccari , President of Rondine Cittadella della Pace, and by the Greek-Orthodox Metropolitan of France, Emmanuel Adamakis, who replaced the Greek-Orthodox Metropolitan of Switzerland as co-president. The project consists in an in-depth course of exchange and reflection on the relationships between the Orthodox Churches and the Catholic world.

The meeting of Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th September took place at the Episcopal Seminary of Arezzo. The working group was made up of representatives from several confessions: Franco Vaccari and Mila Arbia (Association Rondine Cittadella della Pace); Paola Fabrizi (executive secretary of the project "Sorgenti"); Emmanuel Adamakis, Greek-Orthodox Metropolitan of France and Director of the Orthodox Church's Office at the European Union; the Lebanese Theologian of Tripoli, Prof. Michel Nseir, from the Institute of Theology Saint John of Damascus, University of Balamand (Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate); Dr. Gary Vachicouras, from the Institute of Postgraduate Studies in Orthodox theology at the Orthodox Centre of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Chambésy-Geneva (Switzerland); the Byelorussian theologian Grigory Dovgyallo; Katherina Pastukhova, representative of Byelorussian Orthodox Church in the delegation of Patriarchate of Moscow at the general assembly of the Conference of European Churches; Rev. Frans Bouwen, theologian from Jerusalem, and Alexei E. Bodrov from Moscow, Rector of St. Andrew's Biblical Theological College.

The seminar took place behind closed doors in two working sessions per day. The themes developed focused on the research, support and development of common forms of collaboration between Catholic and Orthodox confessions at an educational level, with the purpose of creating a network of relations and proposing common behavioural models. Education was the focal point of all the work sessions; ecumenical education being the basis from which to promote action at an informal level, while being deeply rooted in the ecclesiastical context, which supports reconciliation between the East and the West, objective of the working group of the project "Sorgenti".