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The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation has been awarded the “European Cultural Activity Award” by Aquí Europa-Canal Europa. The Director of External Action and President of Yuste Foundation’s Executive Committee, Rosa Balas, received the award from the Ambassador of Spain to the Kingdom of Belgium, Alberto Antón Cortés, during a ceremony in Brussels.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation opens the application period to apply for one of the 100 grants it offers. These are meant to cover the tuition, accommodation and maintenance expenses of the courses included in the Campus Yuste training programme. The courses are held within the framework of the 23th edition of the University of Extremadura’s international summer-autumn courses.

As a continuation of the 3rd International Congress on “Relations Between Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe: Images and Views on Both Shores”, which was held in March at the Royal Monastery of Guadalupe (Spain), the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation has organised the 4th International Congress on “Relations Between Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe: Shared Values and Common Challenges” along with the Research Centre for Studies on Ibero-America of the Rey Juan Carlos University and the University of Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), which is to be held at the auditorium of the cloister of San Agustin of the University of Cartagena de Indias on 13 and 14 April 2023.

The doctoral thesis “Revolución e indulgencia. La política de indultos en la última Nueva España, 1808-1821”, written by the Mexican researcher Óscar Zárate Miramontes, won the 7th Research Prize to Ibero-American Doctoral Theses that is granted by the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation.

More than a hundred participants from 24 countries have registered in the 3rd International Congress on “Relations between Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe: Images and Views on Both Shores”, which is taking place on the 21st and 22nd of March at the Royal Monastery of Guadalupe.

The doctoral thesis “Revolución e indulgencia. La política de indultos en la última Nueva España, 1808-1821”, written by the Mexican researcher Óscar Zárate Miramontes, won the 7th Research Prize to Ibero-American Doctoral Theses that is granted by the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation.

Fifty judges and magistrates, notaries and property registrars participate in the course “Agrarian and Livestock Law” that has been inaugurated at the Parador de Turismo of Jarandilla de la Vera (Cáceres) as a result of the agreement signed between the General Council of the Judiciary and the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation and which emerges with the aim of making Extremadura a national reference in this legal science.

Fifty judges and magistrates, notaries and property registrars participate in the course “Agrarian and Livestock Law” that has been inaugurated at the Parador de Turismo of Jarandilla de la Vera (Cáceres) as a result of the agreement signed between the General Council of the Judiciary and the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation and which emerges with the aim of making Extremadura a national reference in this legal science.

The jury of the 16th edition of the Carlos V European Award, which is granted by the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation, has decided to deliver the prize to Portuguese António Guterres, current Secretary-General of the United Nations “for his proven, extensive and long-standing life career devoted to social commitment, the process of European integration, the promotion of multilateralism and human dignity as the core of his work, addressing global challenges and crises”.

More than 360 people from nineteen countries have registered in the 2nd Conference “Revealing Conflicts. Journalism and Communication for International Cooperation”, which has been inaugurated today at the Faculty of Documentation and Communication Sciences of the University of Extremadura. This conference, which has been organised by Yuste Foundation along with the Extremaduran International Cooperation Agency for Development and the University of Extremadura, is directed by the Extremaduran reporter who specialises in conflicts, Ángel Sastre.