The Mediterranean Innovation and Research coordination Action (MIRA) is a dialogue and action platform encouraging scientific and technological collaboration between the Mediterranean Partner Courtries (MPC’s) and European Countries since 2008.

MIRA is an INCO-Net type project funded by the 7th EU Framework Programme for RTD supported by the Monitoring Committee for the Euro-Mediterranean S&T Cooperation in RTD (MoCo). Bringing together senior official representatives from the Mediterrean Partner Countries, EU Member states and Associated Countries, The MoCo Forum acts as Steering Committee for MIRA and enhances ability to access expert communities.

With a Network involving 30 partners in 20 countries, the MIRA platform gathers expert voices including leading scientific communities as well as policy makers and stakeholders, bridging policy and research.

The principal objectives of the MIRA project are :

• to develop and support the dialogue between EU – MPCs by bringing together policymakers and stakeholders from each MPC and EU Member states
• to create a dialogue and action platform to identify common interest in research areas, set up S&T priorities, support capacity building activities and enhance the interaction between different cooperation instruments of the EC
• to promote actions in order to monitor, develop and contribute to creating synergies among the various S&T cooperation programmes between MPCs/EU and foster the participation of the MPCs in the Framework Programmes