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.

The tenth Brown Bag Seminar organized by the Initiative featured a presentation by 2025/26 Mercator-IPC Fellow Burcu Karakaş titled “Muslims in Germany: Managing Diversity” on April 22 at IPC Karaköy.

The international community-led planning workshop on “Samandağ Living Heritage” which was co-initiated by 2025/26 Mercator-IPC Fellow Francesco Pasta took place between 13–18 April 2026 in Samandağ, in Hatay province, one of the cities most affected by the 2023 earthquakes.