The Mediterranean Urban Studies Centre is organising events to raise awareness about the preservation of cultural heritage in line with the theme set by the ICOMOS Headquarters as part of ICOMOS Monuments and Sites Day on 18 April. 

‘Rural Life and Rural Heritage’ 22 April 2019: As part of the event organised in collaboration with TED Mersin College and Mersin University Design Society, presentations on rural heritage and conservation were given to university and high school students; this was followed by a technical trip to Uzuncaburç to observe rural life and rural heritage in situ. Photographs taken by students during the technical tour were exhibited in the Faculty of Architecture Exhibition Hall.

‘Heritage Resilient to Disasters and Conflicts’ 16 May 2025: As part of a panel organised in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture, experts gave presentations on earthquakes and cultural heritage. 

Within the scope of the protocol signed with the Nature Association, the Mediterranean Urban Studies Centre, in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture and the Nature Association, organised a panel and exhibition on nomads, an important component of the Mediterranean geography. Photographs documenting the lives of nomads by Turan Çetin from the Nature Association were exhibited in the Faculty of Architecture Exhibition Hall; these photographs were later published in a photo catalogue titled ‘Bolkar Mountain Entrusted to Nomads’. 

The Centre of Mediterranean Urban Studies, within the institutional goals, engaged in various meetings. These are:

- Colloquiums

- Mersin Friends of History Encounters

-Thursday Meetings 

Colloquia 

Centre organizes "Mersin Colloquium in History" every three years. With this event, sharing of new and original works for the Mersin and its district by an interdisciplinary approach is targeted. Colloquia;

-Provide to meet the domestic and foreign experts about Mersin and its’ region at common platform,

- Bring together history, archeology, architecture, urbanism, art history, geography and economics experts’ approaches and assessments from different disciplines for Mersin and its location Mediterranean geography,

-Prepare the ground for the development of new and original studies of Mersin and its’ region, create opportunities of local knowledge, culture and sharing of documents, provide sharing and keeping records of near history of Mersin  and culture of life that told by local personalities and oral information/intangible heritage is nowhere to be registered.

Mersin Friends of History Encounters 

By Mersin Friends of History Encounters, the works and experiences for the city's recent close history of Mersin are aimed to share. 

At the meetings, the issues and volunteers that will work are chosen and these volunteers are supported by Mediterranean Urban Research Centre, on request, on the issues of methods, research and presentation. The studies are mainly chosen about family history, social history, neighborhood history, educational history, entertainment culture, urban development, highland life, etc of Mersin and its district. 

Thursday Meetings

In accordance with responsibilities of Research Centre’s contributing to education, the meetings performed with Restoration and Conservation Centre in Faculty of Architecture, presentations with enriched visual materials and with question-and-response sections, both students and instructors had an interactive sharing platform."