The meeting will bring together around 30 academics and government representatives from Sweden, the EU member states, the GCC countries and regional institutions.  In addition, several corporate representatives from Sweden, the EU and the GCC will join these 30 individuals. The objective of this meeting is to closely analyse and promote topics that are of current mutual interest between the EU and the GCC. It comes at a critical time when the institutional relations between Europe and the Gulf region are growing in both their scope and intensity. The meeting will develop and put forward a policy catalogue of issues that can further enhance EU-GCC relations and lead to greater mutual cooperation. As such, topics exploring security/terrorism, economics/global crisis, development/FDI and culture/identity have been identified as key focal areas of the discussion. The meeting will particularly encourage and aim for a free exchange of ideas. European and Gulf experts will present three papers under the broad topics named above over the two days. The presentations are meant to be brief to allow for sufficient discussion by all participating members. Following the conference, the papers will be published in a book through the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University.

You can find a tentative program for the event by clicking here.

If you would like to read more about the project you can click here to connect to the Gulf Research Centers website, and here to reach the website of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Lund (Swedish only)