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From 27 to 29 June, Campus Yuste will become a forum for analysis, debate and knowledge transfer on relations between the European Union and Latin America under the perspective of the presidencies of the Council of the European Union, at a time when Spain is assuming that presidency. This circumstance presents an opportunity to strengthen relations between the two regions, taking the existing strong historical, political, cultural, economic and social relations between the country and the Ibero-American region into account.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation offers 60 grants for the courses organised by the University of Extremadura that are included within the 10th International Virtual School CAVILA of the Association of Latin American Universities (AULA).

The board of trustees and the staff of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation regret the death of the 97-year-old French sociologist Alain Touraine, member of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste. Touraine assumed the Antonio Lucio Vivaldi Chair of the Academy during the award ceremony of the Carlos V European Award to Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio in 2004.

The board of trustees and the staff of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation regret the death of the 97-year-old French sociologist Alain Touraine, member of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste. Touraine assumed the Antonio Lucio Vivaldi Chair of the Academy during the award ceremony of the Carlos V European Award to Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio in 2004.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation inaugurated the Carlos V European Award – Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe Doctoral Seminar. In this activity ten doctoral candidates who have been awarded one of the European Research and Mobility Grants on European Studies will be presenting their research work dealing with the topic “Culture, heritage, history and memory for the promotion of European values, integration and peace” from a multidisciplinary point of view.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation will be visited by students from the Diplomatic School on Tuesday, 6th of June. They will learn about the Foundation’s work as well as the significance of this historic place as far as international relations are concerned.

Yuste Foundation has launched the project “Youth and Human Rights Activism” along with the Extremaduran Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AEXCID) with the aim of creating a meeting, support and networking platform of people interested in generating messages that transform society and raise awareness of the importance and value of respect for universal human rights.

The European Disability Forum held the 5th European Parliament of Persons with Disabilities yesterday under the theme “Building an inclusive future for persons with disabilities in the EU”. This event counted with the financial support, together with the European Parliament and the European Commission, of Yuste Foundation through the financial endowment of the Carlos V European Award, which was delivered to the European Disability Forum in 2022.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation held the 16th Carlos V European Award ceremony this Tuesday at the Monastery of San Jerónimo de Yuste. In this edition, the award was delivered to the Portuguese politician and Secretary-General of the UN, António Guterres. The ceremony was presided over by King Felipe VI.

The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, will receive the Carlos V European Award next Tuesday, 9 May, at 11 am at the Monastery of San Jerónimo de Yuste during a ceremony that will be presided over by His Majesty King Felipe VI, who is the honorary president of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation.