The MEDINA project (the acronym stands for MEDiterranean by Internet Access) is a Euro-Mediterranean Project co-financed by the European Commission within the Eumedis Initiative – Information Society (MEDA funds). The aim of the project was to promote cultural tourism in different Mediterranean countries and to create a web-portal which guides the user through pathways across countries linking cultural heritage to tourist information.

The MEDINA project was co-ordinated by IMED (Istituto per il Mediterraneo), and involved 18 partners from 14 different countries, consisting mainly of national or regional tourism offices, ministries of culture and tourism, universities and private corporations. The countries involved are 7 Member States (Italy, France, Greece, Austria, Belgium, Malta and Cyprus) and 7 Mediterranean Partner Countries (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, Syria). The Maltese partner was the Ministry for Tourism and Culture.

It started in 2002 and ended in June 2006. The project sought to support a new emerging form of tourism, so called "cultural tourism". Cultural and tourism resources were grouped into five axes: Material Heritage; Performing Arts; Folk Traditions; Food and Gastronomic Culture; Handicraft and Tourist Information. The "cultural tourists" live a vacation mainly as a cultural experience – an opportunity for increasing their knowledge. For cultural tourists, the preparatory phase of vacation is a learning experience per se. They enjoy in reading about the places of their future visit and about the related aspects of the local culture, both in a national perspective and in a wider civilization context.

MEDINA was based on a federation of national web sites (Algeria, Cyprus, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia) and the MEDINA portal, integrating part of the information of the national web sites. The overall system provided information about the heritage of the Mediterranean basin: each national site focused on the cultural heritage of a specific country and provided country specific contents. The MEDINA portal highlighted the common cultural background of the different countries, and the contributions of the different civilizations.

The MEDINA portal may be visited on http://www.medinaproject.net