A coordinating meeting among the scientific projects working on the Mediterranean Sea and surrounding coastal areas took place in September, among the following projects: PERSEUS, PEGASO (http://www.pegasoproject.eu/), SHAPE (http://www.shape-ipaproject.eu/) and MAREMED (http://www.maremed.eu), in order to avoid overlapping of issues and possible repeats of experiments or other exercises, with respect to both scientific work and stakeholder involvement. Three of these four projects, specifically in the Adriatic, actually plan a case study involving stakeholders, while also other case study areas reappear in several projects, so the coordination of activities within the Mediterranean was a  useful exercise for all projects.