Author: Rafael

With the aim of recognising individuals, organisations, projects or initiatives that, through their efforts, have contributed to the general advancement of knowledge and to the enhancement of Europe’s cultural, social, scientific and historical values, or to the unification of the European Union, the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation hereby announces the 19th Carlos V European Award, endowed with a prize of thirty thousand euros.

The Board of Trustees and the staff of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation mourn the passing of the Portuguese historian Manuela Mendonça, a member of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste, who took up the Joan of Arc Chair during the ceremony for the awarding of the Carlos V European Award to the French politician Simone Veil in 2008 at the Monastery of San Jerónimo de Yuste.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation has organised the Carlos V European Award Doctoral Seminar of Multidisciplinary Studies on Contemporary Europe – European Disability Forum entitled “United in Diversity: The Impact of the European Union on the Lives of People with Disabilities”. The seminar will bring together ten researchers from Spain and Colombia, as well as experts from Germany, Belgium, Spain, France, and Serbia, from 16 to 18 December at the Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe in Spain.

The San Francisco del Berrocal Convent in Belvís de Monroy, the departure point of the Twelve Apostles of Mexico, relived history with the presentation of the book Los franciscanos en la América Hispana: revisión e interpretación del legado de los Doce Apóstoles de México, a multidisciplinary collective work that brings together the content of the International Congress on the legacy of these twelve friars, held in 2024 in Guadalupe, Cáceres and Belvís.

The Italian educator Sofia Corradi, better known as “Mamma Erasmus” and awarded the Carlos V European Award in 2016, has passed away at the age of 91 in Rome. Corradi studied at the Columbia Graduate School of Law, earning a Master in Comparative Law. She graduated with honours in Law from the University of Rome La Sapienza and conducted research on the right to education as a fundamental human right at the UN Human Rights Commission, the Hague Academy of International Law, and the London School of Economics.