The MEDEA institute regularly organises conferences, seminars, meetings, interviews with diplomats, MP's, government officials, experts, journalists and individuals with an interest in the Euro-Mediterranean region. The reports can be read under the heading Conference notes.

The next MEDEA events are to be found on the Home Page of the website.

These are the last MEDEA events:

- On October 17, 2008, the fourth Midi de la Méditerranée was devoted to literature by the meeting with Wassyla Tamzali, President of the Algerian Forum of Mediterranean Women, a member of the Office of the Maghreb Equality Collective and ex-Director of the UNESCO Institute for the Advancement of the Status of Mediterranean women.

Wassyla Tamzali was 20 years old when Algeria won its independence. She came to talk about his book "An Algerian education: from the revolution to the black decade" in which she remembers the political developments of Algeria adding her personal thoughts to it. She attributes the current situation in Algeria and the dark days of the nineties to the assimilation that the Algerians did between colonization and modernity. As a universalist, she nevertheless believes in the return of modernity in her country.

- On September 30, 2008 took place the third Midi de la Méditerranée during which Hugues Mingarelli, Deputy Director General, DG RELEX, European Commission, spoke on the theme "Analysis of the Summit of July 13: Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean: the place of civil society and the initiative of the Mediterranean South-North Dialogue.

Stressed twice in the Paris Declaration of  July 13th on the Union for the Mediterranean, the role of civil society is destined to grow. Hugues Mingarelli discussed recent additions for civil society coming with the Union for the Mediterranean and the challenges and difficulties to accept in order to improve dialogue between European or Euromed institutions sometimes too abstruse and a heterogeneous and often poorly organized civil society.

- On September 12, 2008, for the second occurence of the Midis de la Méditerranée organized jointly by the MEDEA Institute and the European Movement Belgium, Philippe de Fontaine Vive, Vice-President of the European Investment Bank spoke on the theme " FEMIP: Investing in the southern Mediterranean: Challenges and Opportunities. "

The Facility for Euro-Mediterranean Investment and Partnership is the tool of intervention of the EIB in the Mediterranean region. Active since 2002, it is now the main instrument of economic and financial cooperation between Europe and the Mediterranean. Philippe de Fontaine Vive shed light on the factor of change in the Mediterranean region, the challenges and the levers of action drawn up by the EIB to respond them. He then ended with an outline of the four projects launched by the EIB in the wake of the Paris summit on the Union for the Mediterranean. Questions from the audience came and enhanced this second Midi de la Méditerranée.

- On July 1st, 2008, in collaboration with the European Movement Belgium, the MEDEA Institute organized a conference entitled "Europe and the Mediterranean: the winding path of the french project " given by Professor Bichara Khader in the framework of the "Midis de la Méditerranée".

Two weeks before the launch of the project of the Union for the Mediterranean in Paris, Bichara Khader has traced the course and the changes brought to the draft of Nicolas Sarkozy, from the speech in Toulon in February 2007 to the eve of his consecration. The conference was followed by a rich discussion with a qualified public composed mainly of diplomats and European officials. 

The "Midis de la Mediterranée" consist of regular meetings of discussion, information and awareness on the news of the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation and similar topics.

- On February 1st, 2008, the MEDEA Institute organized a conference about "The Kurdish question in Turkey" in collaboration with the Groupe Midi of ICS Belgium.

The conference aimed to inform an interested but not aware public about the ins and outs of the Kurdish question in Turkey. The speakers,  and Pierre Van Rie addressed the history of Kurds in Turkey into two parts: Paul Vanden Bavière displayed the first dealing on the characteristics of the Kurdish people of Turkey and its history until the PKK revolt in 1984; Pierre Van Rie then took over with the history of the PKK and the recent developments of the situation of Kurds installed in Turkey.

- On January 22, 2008, the MEDEA Institute intervened at a conference entitled "Beyond the Barcelona process. Which ambitions, and what changes?" organized by the Academia Europea Diplomatica of IERI at the European Parliament.

The speech addressed the issue of Euro-Mediterranean cooperation in chronological order, trying to draw conclusions about the complementarity of Europe's various Mediterranean policies : the Neighbourhood Policy compared with the Barcelona Process, and the possible Mediterranean Union compared to the previous two. The presentation was followed by an exchange session with the audience.

- On November 19, 2007, the MEDEA Institute intervened on "The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership" during the formation of Tunisian diplomats for the ENA in Strasbourg.

The operation, organized an interactive, on the theme "The Euro-Mediterranean partnership and dealing of the Barcelona Process, the European Neighbourhood Policy, bilateral programmes and regional and South-South integration. It ended with a workshop discussion on the points of divergence and convergence between European and Mediterranean policies.

- On March 6, 2007, the MEDEA Institute organized a symposium on "The movement of dialogue's holders".

MEDEA sought through this symposium to provide a reflection on ways to facilitate the movement of nationals in Europe from the Mediterranean partners of the EU. He was wearing only on the question of visas granted to holders of "dialogue" with the exception of refugees or migrants wishing to settle. This event was a preparation "at European level" of the North-South conference on the same issue.

- On January 26, 2007, the MEDEA Institute organized a round table (select committee) on the theme of "the respective strategies of the European Union and the United States concerning Iraq" within the Foreign Affairs Ministry.

The roundtable was attended among others by representatives of the European Commission, the Council of the European Union, the embassies of EU member states and the mission of the United States to the EU. This event was an opportunity for participants to freely exchange their views on the current situation in Iraq. They were allowed to discuss the actions that should be taken by the European Union, its member states and by the United States to alleviate the humanitarian disaster and to the climate of insecurity in the region.

- On November 28, 2006, the MEDEA Institute organized a conference on the theme: "The new European Neighbourhood Policy. Lebanon's experience" at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).

The conference was given by Dr. Adel Fakih, journalist, writer and founder of the international association "Dialogue of Civilizations".

- On May 29, 2006, the MEDEA Institute organized a symposium on "The role of the Internet and satellite television in relations between the peoples of the member states of the OSCE and the countries of the Mediterranean and Middle East" at the Palais d'Egmont in Brussels.

The symposium was attended by diplomats and media responsibility. Several important issues were discussed at the symposium, such as the need to put in place a regulatory system for international satellite television, or the lack of a common definition and intercultural understanding of the term "message of hate ". Some technical aspects related to satellite broadcasting has also been clarified in order to promote the optimal course of the discussions. The symposium was an occasion to recall the importance of a close dialogue between the Arab and Mediterranean countries and member countries of the OSCE.