In complement to its 3 thematic priorities – innovation, energy and environment - the MED Programme integrates in its architecture a cross-sector axis specifically tackling the capacity of national and regional authorities to contribute to governance processes in the Mediterranean Region: the axis 4 Enhancing Mediterranean Governance. Concretely, this will be achieved through a top-down evidence based platform of national and regional authorities, the PANORAMED project. The overall goal of PANORAMED is to establish an innovative permanent dialogue and decision making process among national and regional public authorities and stakeholders to contribute to informed policy and decision making processes at national and transnational level on common challenges and opportunities in the Mediterranean Region. Specifically, the initiative will support the definition of transnational governance joint frameworks for the identification and implementation of shared approaches, policies and strategic projects. The top down partnership scheme includes 17 ministerial and regional partners from the MED eligible countries identified directly by the MED programme Monitoring Committee. The identified associated partners complement the partnership scheme and comprise the main actors and initiatives and strategies present in the basin and are recognized as key driver for exploring and developing complementarities and synergies as well as for defining possible alignment of initiatives.