Several meetings will be hosted along the Costa Blanca over the next few months.Alicante,benidorm and Javea will host them because of the Spanish presidency of the EU.Hundreds of top government members and leaders of civil society from the two Mediterranean basins will be present at all of the meetings which will for the most part be organised by the recently created Casa Mediterraneo,led by Yolanda Parrado,in its three delegations.

The first meeting will be in benidorm in May when 70 members of of the Science and Innovation ministries of the EU and other Mediterranean countries  will meet to discuss plans for a common investigation and development strategy.

Also in May Alicante will hold the Euromed Civic Forum which will involve 300 delegates of NGO´s and civil organisations from both sides of the Mediterranean.Javea will have a seminary on urban development in the mediterranean.