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Our activities include volunteer actions in social issues, cultural events, and educational programs. We coordinate Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships in the fields of Youth, Adult Education, Vocational Education & Training (VET). We are coordinating the project DARE for unemployed young NEET in four countries with the support of the EEA & Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment.

Sistema Cyprus String and Percussion orchestras with 120 children living in Nicosia.

Sistema Cyprus Winds and Percussion Orchestra with 40 children liiving in Larnaca.

Community music workshops in shelters of unaccompanied refugee minors in Nicosia and Larnaca.

We are a grass root organization, therefore, we focus on activities and projects that are mainly needed for our members, like informative seminars and training workshops on equality, stereotypes, pensions rights, workers rights, health rights, trafficking, violence for women and children. We are also active in main gender issues such as pay gap, parity at all levels of decision making, participation, elevation of woman in the business environment, maternity/paternity rights, as well as the protection of human rights in general and or specific (LGTB rights, refugees and migrants protection). For all these issues, we do have seminars, workshops open not only for our members but any interested person, as well as we held, organize and or participate in campaigns promoting all the above. Last but not least, we do work towards reconciliation and a viable solution to the Cyprus Problem, based on UN and EU principles and we are working on closing the gap that the 42 years of separation created between Cypriots of the two main communities. In order to be even more active in that field, we are members of the Cyprus Dialogue Forum.  

AIDS / HIV Trainer Seminars and Community Awareness Raising 45 men and women educators and NGO trainers were trained to give HIV/AIDS education to vulnerable stakeholders. By raising gender health awareness about the threat of STD and reproductive health. The seminars raised issues of inadequate public health awareness education in schools, and how that could be rectified through informal ‘community’ discussions with teenagers and parents. Migrant Worker Seminars and Workshops An empowerment project/informational forum teaching marginalized stakeholders about their human rights, democracy and how to better legally organize themselves against public institutional human rights abuses. The seminars trained European Union and Third Country National migrant workers about their immigration issues, law, human rights and employment rights. Ending with interactive problem solving workshops to put their experiences to paper.

Some of our recent projects are the following:

Hub Nicosia--a Hub for Social Entrepreneurs across the dividing line

Future Europe – Best practices in Digital Competencies and Migrant Integration

Take Care—Healthcare Language Guide for Migrants—which aims primarily to enable migrants to gain language skills about health care matters in a new language and improve their integration to the local society

DAISS2--Diagnostics for Enterprise Soft Skills—which provides an assessment tool for soft skills for enterprise and entrepreneurship

AGnovel – Advanced graphic novels for mobile devices—which creates and puts into use an innovative approach to foreign language learning by developing a new type of graphic novel that can be used on mobile devices

Under My Wing--An entreprenereurial training programme for non-business graduates

- Bi-communal Environmental Education Programme, 1996, funded by WWF. - ‘Training of trainers’, bi-communal project for schoolteachers, 2000-1, funded by UNOPS. - Sustainable management of the River Valleys, Eastern Paphos, 1999-2001, funded by LIFE ’99. - Bi-communal study of the cultural significance of Limassol Old Town, 2002-2004, funded by UNOPS/USAID. - Daily Life and Culture of the Turkish Cypriot Community of the Old Town of Limassol, 2006-2008, funded by UNDP-ACT Cultural Programmes - Capacity Building for Environmental NGOs, 2007-2008, funded by UNDP - BIOforLIFE, ongoing LIFE+ project, to sensitize Cypriots to importance of Biodiversity in our daily lives - ‘’Oaks for the future’’ (2009-2011), Bicommunal project funded by DG Enlargement - ADAQUA: Sustainable pollution risk management in Cypriot river basins (2011-2013, Research Promotion Foundation. -Birds for the Future (2013) Bicommunal youth project funded by Has Na - ‘Island-wide wetlands mapping platform’, bicommunal project funded by MAVA (on-going)      

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The major activities of the Mediterranean Policy Centre are:
· To create a platform for autonomous, scientific and reputable studies that will contribute towards positive change and transformation.
· To provide the opportunity for individuals, intellectuals and academics, independent organizations and institutions, to operate under the non-profit, non-political umbrella.
· To disseminate reliable information, promote science-based approaches and encourage information management in order to meet the increasing need in society for dependable information and knowledge.
·To conduct research based on the social sciences whilst also providing information, sources, studies and alternative perspectives for thinkers and researchers.
· To identify real problems and needs in society and to clarify the causes and underlying issues relating to these needs, by conducting surveys, research, scientific studies and analysis.
· To determine strategic objectives, identify priority issues, and determine cause and effect relationships by analyzing solutions in line with short, medium and long-term studies.
· To generate sustainable building and development projects to promote production and create employment.
· To create a research database so that policy makers and other parties can search for statistical information and research and use up-to-date and accurate data for producing policies.
· To create new perspectives and alternative policies based on research data and scientific studies in order to improve quality in the public arena.
·To offer training to members, citizens, civil and public institutions based on the high-quality data, information and methods generated by the researchers.
·To provide consultancy services and experts to carry out work within the Centre and externally on request.
· To promote active participation in and strengthening of citizen-government relations to encourage the development of the democratic process and decrease the distance and mistrust between government and its citizens. In this way, the state will be informed of the needs and expectations of citizens at every stage of policy making and the trust of the public in the state will be restored and civil capacity will be strengthened.
· To setup a dialogue between intellectuals, institutions, organizations and civil society organizations to ensure cooperation, execute and complete projects, and create a network of interested parties.
· To contribute towards creating and/or strengthening the local and international identity by bringing together like-minded organizations and creating synergies at a macro level.
· To encourage and promote the strengthening of Civil Society Organizations, capacity building and advocacy in order to increase their impact on decision-making mechanisms and produce effective, alternative policies.
· To promote active citizenship by providing an open platform where all may voice their suggestions and contribute to the wellbeing of society and participate in producing alternative policies.
· Offer a forum where CSOs can become a bridge between individual expectations and the state. Strengthening CSOs would then result in a stronger link between the state and its citizens.
· To work – on a project basis – with organizations and similar institutions abroad, benefit from studies conducted by researchers and scientists world-wide and further the development of business association.
· To collaborate professionally and work on projects with individuals or institutions.
The Mediterranean Policy Centre will continue to collaborate and follow up with centres of best practices around world
through on-going dialogue and partnerships, and in order to earn a respectable place in the international arena.