In connection with the implementation of the Barcelona Process, France is concentrating structures and resources in Marseille in order to foster economic exchanges within the Euro-Mediterranean Region.

• In 2003, the ANIMA programme (Agencies Network for Investment in the Mediterranean Area ) set up offices in Marseille for the Euro-Mediterranean scope. The actions carried out are intended to prepare for the creation of a permanent Euro-Mediterranean agency, intended to become one of the key tools in the European Union's policy to strengthen flows of foreign investment into Mediterranean partner countries, and in this way step up their development.

• In 2004, Ubifrance, the French centre for foreign trade, set up its international trade offices in Marseille;

• The MedCoop collective is working to promote cooperation between players from the South and the North of the Mediterranean (Mediterranean environment centre, Mediterranean Institute for training and research on social work, Mediterranean network of engineering schools, etc.)

• The Mediterranean Institute has a mission to observe and evaluate strategies and policies in the Mediterranean , and identify and prepare multilateral projects.

• The FEMISE network (Euro-Mediterranean forum for economic research institutes)

• Network of independent economic institutes responsible for the economic analysis of the Barcelona Process, with 80 members representing the 27 partners for the Barcelona Process. It provides the European Commission with data and analyses that make up the reporting chart on the steering of the partnership agreements. It is being co-led by the Mediterranean Institute in Marseille and the Economic Research Forum ( Egypt ).