In June 2005, Universitat Rovira i Virgili de Tarragona (Catalonia-Spain) hosted the II Mediterranean University Forum under the auspices of the European Commission, through its Jean Monnet programme. Thanks to the collaboration of our project partners (Université Catholique de Lovain, Institut Catholique de Paris, Association Immaginare l'Europa, University of Malta), this Forum could gather 60 Euro-Mediterranean universities whose efforts during two days of work gave birth to the Tarragona Declaration. This document recommends the governments, universities and members of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership to establish a network in order to export the experience of the Bologna’s Process to the EuroMed area.
One year later - June of 2006 - the University of Malta welcomed the III Mediterranean University Forum. The path to achieve the creation of the network continued there, inviting the universities to the next Forum at the University of Alexandria, with the sponsorship of the ALF- Anna Lindh Foundation-, who had already taken part in the process initiated in Tarragona.
In October 2006, the Tampere Polytechnic University of Applied Sciences, MEDA-Institute of Finland, and the Rovira i Virgili University organised the first EuroMed Universities Rectors’ Conference, with the sponsorship of the Finnish Presidency of the EU and the European Commission. The conference concluded with the constitution act by which the EuroMed Permanent University Forum was created and the election of its first Executive Committee and the Executive Secretary.
In November 2006 the procedures to register the EPUF in the Brussels registry of associations started, under the Belgian law for the International Non Profit Association (AISBL in French), a process undertaken by the Bours & Associes office of legal advisers.
In December 2006 the working groups met for the first time at the Universitá degli Studi di Napoli l´Orientale based in Naples.
The first meeting of the EPUF Executive Committee took place in March 2007 at the University Rovira i Virgili.