COMUNICACIÓN

Over three hundred students from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United States and Uruguay, have taken part in the courses of the Campus Yuste training programme, which has been held throughout July at the Monastery of San Jerónimo de Yuste. The courses are organised by the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation as part of the University of Extremadura’s International Summer/Autumn Courses. (28/07/2025)

“40 Years Since Spain Joined the European Economic Community”, “Preparing Spain’s Transition to Democracy”, “The New World Order and the Atlantic Axis”, and “Health, Illness and Nutrition During the Reign of Charles V” were the topics chosen this year to mark the 40^th anniversary of the signing of Spain’s Treaty of Accession to the European Economic Community, the 50^th anniversary of the start of Spain’s political transition to democracy, to examine the geopolitical and economic consequences of the decisions taken by Donald Trump upon entering the White House, and to reflect on health and illness in the 16^th century.

Speakers who have taken part in the programme at Yuste in recent weeks include the spokesperson for Foreign Affairs of the People’s Parliamentary Group in the Spanish Congress of Deputies, Carlos Floriano; Spanish ambassadors Francisco Javier Elorza and Francisco Javier Rupérez; former secretary general of UGT-E, Cándido Méndez; former socialist MP Eduardo Madina; Madrid MP and chair of the Petitions Committee in the Congress of Deputies, Carlos Aragonés; cardinal archbishop emeritus of Madrid and president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference from 1999 to 2005 and again from 2008 to 2014, Antonio María Rouco Varela; former vice-president of the European Commission and recipient of the 2025 Carlos V European Award, Josep Borrell; president of the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, José Antonio Frontera; director of the Elcano Royal Institute, Charles Powell; and member of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste and emeritus professor at KU Leuven, Gustaaf Janssens.

Campus Yuste is an intensive training programme made up of specialised courses aimed at university students, researchers and professionals, who can attend either in person or follow the sessions online. The courses explore topics related to European integration, relations between Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean, current challenges and issues, as well as the era of emperor Charles V. All of these are approached from an interdisciplinary perspective, combining lectures and panel discussions in the symbolic and culturally rich setting of the Monastery of San Jerónimo de Yuste.