EuroMeSCo itself, as a functioning confidence-building measure, is concerned with creating lasting cooperative professional relationships with similar non-governmental and independent organisations.
It seeks to construct relationships between Europe, the Maghrib and the Mashriq on a North-South and South-South basis which otherwise might not exist in order to widen the forum for debate on matters of mutual concern. Such issues are related to the EMP, and the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), and the network provides a forum for debate of essential matters that might otherwise prove to be sensitive issues for governments within the EMP.
The network also seeks to establish a common vocabulary for policy and security issues in the region and thus contribute to the policy process whilst, at the same time, providing a mechanism by which the views of civil society within the Mediterranean can be represented to decision-makers.