Creating a sustainable network of ICT research organisations in the Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPC) and Europe, reinforcing the Research Cooperation between these two regions on a wider scale by organizing a series of networking events in the MPC that will bring researchers from different MPC and EU together. Supporting the Information Society policy dialogue and the co-ordination of national policies on international S& T co-operation in the MPC by formulating a harmonised MPC ICT policy and through an open dialogue, among the MPC as well as with Europe