Governments, business, academia, and civil society — one table for a shared regional agenda.
Southeast Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean share history, geography, and economic interdependence — but no permanent, neutral mechanism for structured cooperation across borders, sectors, and stakeholders. DDD Southeast Europe was established to be that mechanism: an independent, multi-stakeholder foundation that convenes the people and institutions who already shape regional outcomes, and gives them a common table to work from.
The foundation works in four concrete formats — convening, evidence, talent, and culture — organised around eight strategic objectives.
Convenings that put governments, business, academia, and civil society in the same room — across borders, on the record where productive, off the record where necessary.
Evidence-based analysis on the questions the region faces: cross-border economic cooperation, energy, regulation, security. Published annually as the Geopolitical Outlook and through standalone reports.
A programme for the next generation of regional leaders. Cohort-based, cross-country, taught by practitioners.
Cultural Diplomacy Weeks across regional cities and periodic Regional Indexes — Economy, Energy, Culture — that give the region shared facts to work from.
A rotating selection of work currently underway. See all projects for the full portfolio.
Coordinated by the Executive Secretariat
A cross-border working group convening energy ministries, regulators, and grid operators on interconnection, regulatory alignment with the EU acquis, and investment sequencing through 2030.
Led by ELIAMEP, in cooperation with the Executive Secretariat
A standing forum on maritime cooperation, search-and-rescue coordination, and energy infrastructure in the Eastern Mediterranean basin.
Coordinated by the Executive Secretariat
A periodic data publication tracking institutional resilience, media independence, and rule-of-law indicators across the foundation's working geography.
Two days of structured working sessions on cross-border economic cooperation, energy, and democratic resilience.
Selected publications, analyses, and announcements. The full archive is in News & Insights.
The foundation's flagship year-ahead analysis: enlargement momentum, energy realignment, the Black Sea dimension, and the cross-border economic agenda.
The foundation publishes the names of its 15-member Board of Directors and confirms the inaugural Forum will convene in Bucharest in November 2026.
An evidence-based assessment of cross-border electricity interconnection in the Western Balkans, with recommendations on regulatory alignment and investment sequencing.
A Board of Directors and Advisory Council drawn from governments, business, academia, and civil society across 14 countries. The Executive Secretariat operates from Bucharest and Athens.
DDD Southeast Europe is built by its members. If you work on the region — in government, business, academia, civil society, or as a journalist or researcher who covers it — there is a seat at the table.