The MedPAN network brings together the managers of Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas and supports them in their management activities. The MedPAN network gathers to date more than 66 members, primarily MPA management institutions from the whole Mediterranean basin, and 41 partners willing to contribute to the creation and strengthening of the network. These actors manage more than 110 MPAs in 19 Mediterranean countries. The network exists since the 90s. It is now run by the MedPAN organisation, a permanent structure established in late 2008 with a Secretariat based in Marseille (France) that employs 7 employees. The MedPAN network's mission is to promote the sustainability and operation of the network of MPAs in the Mediterranean. To achieve this, MedPAN has developed, through a part