The founding aims of RIDE-APS are:
- promote initiatives in the framework of development cooperation and international solidarity;
- promote dialogue between peoples and cultural realities, in the name of their respective identities and reciprocity, with particular attention to the Euro-Mediterranean area;
- protect and enhance common assets of artistic and historical interest in Italy and in Mediterranean countries;
- to facilitate the meeting, the connection, the coordination and the cooperation between all the subjects and the civil society organizations that operate in Italy for the Euro-Mediterranean dialogue and the exchange of good practices;
- identify shared cultural values that can be shared while respecting the different specific identities, in order to promote dialogue between the different cultural realities, especially in the Euro-Mediterranean area; to promote the development of social and cultural visions based on equality between human beings and gender equality through the strengthening and enhancement of the role of women;
- promote the method inspired by a Mediterranean Helsinki in the Middle East and Africa;
- establish a permanent forum or think tank ( think tank of think tanks ) of meetings, research, analysis and debates in order to produce, actions and publications aimed at promoting coexistence and political, economic, cultural and security interaction;
- offer a consulting service, coordinated and developed harmoniously between the various RIDE-APS members, in particular universities, research centers and Italian communities of foreign origin - in compliance with Art. 26 ("Civil society organizations and other non-profit organizations") of the Law of 11 August 2014, n. 125 ("General regulation on international cooperation for development"), of which art. 1 RIDE-APS shares the aims - in collaboration with the National Development Cooperation Council, the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), and with the Directorate General for Development Cooperation (DGCS) of the MAECI;
- represent, through the Executive Council and with the express consent of the MAECI, the Focal Point of civil society in relations with the Alliance of Civilizations (UNAoC);
- represent the cultural and scientific instrument of Italy within the Euro-Mediterranean partnership in order to promote an open and constructive dialogue;
- support the development of harmonious and mutually respectful relations between majorities and national, ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities;
- share the statutory aims and objectives of the Anna Lindh Foundation, acting as the Italian representative of the same Italian FAL Network.