In partnership with the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Israel, GPoT Center organized the second part of the International Workshop for Turkish and Israeli Journalists in Jerusalem, Israel. The workshop hosted 13 participants, including journalists from well-known Turkish and Israeli newspapers, and academicians, from the 29th of April to the 1st of May, 2013.

GPoT Center hosted approximately 40 participants for the 2013 cycle of the High Strategic Studies of the Mediterranean Sea. 9-month long study programs of this kind have been organized by the Mediterranean Foundation of Strategic Studies in partnership with the Institute of High Studies of National Defense for almost two decades.

GPoT Center's project officer Sofia Hafdell participated in the Citizens for Dialogue Convention organized by the Anna Lindh Foundation and the Tunisian, Algerian and Moroccan Networks between the 24th and the 28th of March, 2013 in Tunisia.

This paper examines the role of grassroots activities in Sweden concerning children's rights protection and how the country has become a role model for the whole world in terms of human development and children's rights with special reference to the best practices they have elaborated throughout their history.

It is the pleasure of GPoT Center to host Erik Boel, former President at the European Movement Denmark, as a key-note speaker during today's roundtable on EU-Turkey relations in Istanbul.

GPoT Center organized a week-long Democracy Training Workshop, which brought together 30 exiled Syrian youth community representatives, between the 11th and 15th of March in Istanbul, Turkey.