The twelfth Brown Bag Seminar organized by the Initiative featured a presentation by 2025/26 Mercator-IPC Fellow Damla B.Aksel titled "Policies and Politics of Migration from Germany" on June 17 at IPC Karaköy.

Istanbul Policy Center organized the seminar "The European Union's Maritime Security Strategy and the Eastern Mediterranean: Regional Cooperation and Security Governance" with Giovanni Parente on June 16 at IPC Karaköy.

IPC, together with Chatham House, E3G and ECCO, hosted the side event “From Bonn to Antalya: Accelerating Implementation and Just Transition through the COP31 Presidency" on June 10 in Bonn.