Style of the conferences

Multidisciplinary and bilingual conferences and workshops

The Foundation organizes multidisciplinary conferences. Our conferences are bilingual (French and English), to allow a better understanding between the participants coming from French-speaking countries (of Europe, the Maghreb and western Africa) and those resulting from the Middle East, in majority English speakers. In Casablanca, the cabin of simultaneous translation.

Participants' wide sample group

The conferences combine researchers coming from the North, South and East shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Senior decision-makers as well as young researchers are invited. In Trieste, two young veterinarian researchers, Caroline Noach (Beit Dagan, Israel) and Lionel Gbaguidi (Cotonou, Benin) report on the avian influenza.
In Trieste, Adnan Shihab Eldin, ex Secretary General of OPEC, opposes the petroleum " peak of production " concept..
Engineers as well as important figures in the decision making process are invited to confront their points of view with the scientists. Scientists were also invited to share their experiences as women in their career. In Casablanca, Dinah Berrah recalls how starting as an Algerian physicist, she is now professor in an American University.

A limited number of participants

The number of the participants is limited to between 100 to 150 so as to allow lively debates. This format is successful. In Casablanca, a lively discussion with the audience, Mohammed V University’s Professor Rajaa Cherkaoui, makes a point.
Every 12 in 15 months The periodicity of these conferences is from 12 to 15 months to allow a sufficient renewal of the contents. "Recommendations" NATO required these conferences to end-up in "recommendations", the follow-up of which is necessary to insure that initiatives are taken by relevant authorities. Workshops Since Trieste, to insure a better follow-up, workshops are organized in the interval between the conferences. Geneva and Montpellier are the first of these workshops. A network The conferences will gradually result in a network which will have as a collective responsibility the follow-up of its initiatives. It is thus important to insure an effective communication within this network, notably through the data base of the web site of the Foundation.