IPALMO organises national and international conferences, workshops and seminars. It has provided organisational services for the FAO, the Italian Parliament, the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate (Parliamentarians' Day), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the European Union, the Lombardy Regional Authority and the Milan Chamber of Commerce/ Promos and with the Eastern University Institute of Naples.

Recent IPALMO events have included: the G8 Non-Governmental Initiative in Florence on behalf of the Office of the Prime Minister; a parallel session at the Global Development Network's third annual international conference; an international conference in Tunis on Social Security in the Mediterranean; a training course and a seminar for journalists from the southern Mediterranean, Italy, Spain and France in collaboration with the European Commission and the Eastern University Institute of Naples; a seminar on globalization governance held in Bergamo; and, with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Milan Chamber of Commerce/Promos and the Lombardy Regional Authority, a conference on business community networking in the world. For the year 2002, the following events are scheduled: the organisation of Parliamentarians' Day and the World Food Summit "Five Years Later" Conference on behalf of the FAO/Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Parliament/Inter-parliamentarian Union.

To promote greater participation, IPALMO holds a monthly round-table known as "The Tritone Meetings". These meetings are informal discussions on international political and economic issues. Participants include MPs, experts and researchers, and representatives of institutions and civil society. IPALMO also actively organises specific working groups composed of students, researchers and interns.