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Yuste Foundation opens the deadline for applications for ten Carlos V European Award -Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe – European Research and Mobility Grants for European Studies. The subject of this edition is “Culture, Heritage, History and Memory for the Promotion of European Values, Integration and Peace”.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation has organised the course “The Spanish exile in Chile”, making the Santa Ana University Centre of Almendralejo a focal point for the study and analysis of the Spanish exile in Chile. A place where academics and experts from different Spanish universities will meet. The opening of this event was attended by the director of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation, Juan Carlos Moreno; the director of the Santa Ana University Centre of Almendralejo, Carmen Fernández-Daza, and the course director, Modesto Miguel Rangel Mayoral.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation and the Iberian Film Festival of Badajoz invite young people aged 18 to 30, who are residents of Extremadura, to join the Young Jury of the 28th Iberian Film Festival, which will be held from 19 to 23 July 2022 in Badajoz, Olivenza and San Vicente de Alcántara. This jury will award the “Luis Alcoriza” Prize to the best short film, in their view, in the official section.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation has received close to 650 applications for the eight courses offered within its Campus Yuste programme. Of the training offer, six are part of the 23rd edition of the University of Extremadura’s international summer-autumn courses and two will be held through the Latin American Virtual Campus, Aula-Cavila. The educational sessions will be held from June to September at the Monastery of Yuste (Cáceres) and in Guadalupe and can be followed online.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation held the 15th Carlos V European Award ceremony this Wednesday at the Royal Monastery of Yuste. In this edition, the prize has been awarded to the European Disability Forum (EDF) and the ceremony was presided over by H.M. the King of Spain, Felipe VI. This award recognises the promotion of a more inclusive, just and egalitarian Europe and contributes to the process of European integration by defending the values of the European Union on an equal footing and without discrimination.

His Majesty King Felipe VI, Honorary President of Yuste Foundation, presided over the Foundation’s Board of Trustees’ extraordinary meeting on Wednesday, 11 May, at 16:00h, at the Monastery of Yuste, on the occasion of the institution’s 30th anniversary.

The Board of Trustees, the Academy and the staff of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation regret the death of the German researcher and politician Ursula Lehr, who took office as a member of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste in 2000, occupying the Marie Curie Chair.

His Majesty King Felipe VI, Honorary President of Yuste Foundation, will preside over the ceremony of the 15th Carlos V European Award, which is awarded by the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation on Wednesday, 11 May, at the Monastery of Yuste, at 12h. In this edition, the award has been granted to the European Disability Forum and its president, the Greek Yannis Vardakastanis, will be in charge of collecting it.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation and the Elcano Royal Institute have signed a general protocol of action that aims to articulate the framework of collaboration between the two institutions for the realisation of teaching, research, and cooperation activities, and those of any other area of mutual interest, which will be regularised with the signing of subsequent specific agreements.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation opens the application period to qualify for 260 grants that will finance the tuition, accommodation and maintenance expenses incurred by the courses included in the Campus Yuste training programme. The courses are held within the framework of the 23rd edition of the University of Extremadura’s international summer-autumn courses. The training sessions will be held between June and September at the Monastery of Yuste (Cáceres), in Guadalupe and online.