One of the main objectives of the project was to organise a number of cooperation events in Europe and Africa, to be synchronised with policy dialogue meetings, in order to provide inputs to these meetings, facilitate the development of synergies with other programmes and initiatives, involve key stakeholders in project activities, fine-tune the identification of priorities and recommendations, etc.

6 cooperation meetings were organised by the EuroAfrica-ICT conortium over the 2010-2011 period:

• 8th Concertation Meeting, Brussels, 23 June 2010;
• 14th Awareness and thematic workshop, Reduit, Mauritius, 3-4 November 2010;
• 3rd Euro-Africa Cooperation Forum on ICT Research, Helsinki, Finland, 7-8 December 2010.
• 15th Awareness and thematic workshop, Khartoum, Sudan, 6-7 April 2011;
• 9th Concertation Meeting, Pretoria, South Africa, 6 June 2011;
• 4th Euro-Africa Cooperation Forum on ICT Research, Cape Town, South Africa, 14-15 November 2011.

Each one of these meetings, consistently attracted a high level of participant, often including ministers of ICT or equivalent, deans of universities, heads of important research centres, etc., as well as representations from the EU and AUC.

In addition, the number of participants and the range of nationalities and types of organisation that they represented and the quality of the discussions that took place during the sessions, provided excellent content for the meetings themselves. Such success is down to the networking capabilities of the project partners and the experiences gained from organising two successful previous Forums (in Brussels and Addis Ababa in March 2009 and February 2010, respectively), as well as the strong and vibrant network of interested parties that make up the EuroAfrica-ICT online community.