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Yuste Foundation’s director affirms that young people committed to human rights are the future of humanity
Yuste Foundation’s director affirms that young people committed to human rights are the future of humanity

At the opening of the course “Youth and Human Rights Activism”, the director of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation, Juan Carlos Moreno Piñero, claimed that these sessions are “different and necessary because they speak of the present but above all of the future”. In his opinion, the issue has an impact on civil society and young people in particular since more than sixty people from twelve countries have enrolled, “and not in all these countries, he stated, is respect for human rights sufficiently guaranteed”.

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The Academy of Yuste Denounces the War in Ukraine

The Academy of Yuste Denounces the War in Ukraine

A year into the war in Ukraine, the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste has adopted the Declaration of Yuste, where it condemns “so much unnecessary and undeserved human suffering” while expressing its “sincere and profound solidarity” with the Ukrainian people, who have been “ravaged by unjustified and condemnable military aggression by a neighbouring nation that has been culturally and spiritually linked to it for centuries”.

Photojournalists, war correspondents and investigative journalists meet at the 2nd conference on journalism, communication and international cooperation

Photojournalists, war correspondents and investigative journalists meet at the 2nd conference on journalism, communication and international cooperation

Following the success of the first edition and taking the need to continue delving into the approach to international conflicts through communication and journalism into account, Yuste Foundation along with the Extremaduran International Cooperation Agency for Development and the University of Extremadura, have organised the 2nd conference entitled “Revealing Conflicts. Journalism, Communication and International Cooperation”, to be held on 1 and 2 March at the Faculty of Library and Documentation in Badajoz, although they can also be followed online. The conference is led by the Extremaduran reporter Ángel Sastre.

The deadline to submit papers for the international congress on relations between Extremadura, Europe and Latin America is open

The deadline to submit papers for the international congress on relations between Extremadura, Europe and Latin America is open

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation together with the University of Extremadura and the Research Centre for Studies on Ibero-America of the Rey Juan Carlos University (CEIB-URJC) have opened the deadline for the presentation of papers for the 3rd International Congress on Relations between Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe, which is entitled “Images and Views on Both Shores” in this edition. The sessions will be held in Guadalupe (Cáceres) from 21 to 23 March 2023.

TEN RESEARCHERS FROM EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA ARE SELECTED BENEFICIARIES OF THE CARLOS V EUROPEAN AWARD GRANTS

TEN RESEARCHERS FROM EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA ARE SELECTED BENEFICIARIES OF THE CARLOS V EUROPEAN AWARD GRANTS

Ten researchers from Spain, Romania, Belgium, Colombia and Argentina have been selected beneficiaries of the Carlos V European Award – Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe European Research and Mobility Grants on European Studies. Two of these beneficiaries are students from Extremadura and are pursuing their doctorate at the University of Extremadura. The topic of this edition was “Culture, heritage, history and memory for the promotion of European values, integration and peace”.

Yuste Foundation is awarded for its European cultural activity

Yuste Foundation is awarded for its European cultural activity

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation has been awarded the “Award to European Cultural Activity” delivered by Aquí Europa-Canal Europa, the specialised information service in the European Union that produces news entirely in Spanish from Brussels.

The call for the 16th edition of the Carlos V European Award is now open

The call for the 16th edition of the Carlos V European Award is now open

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation opened the call for the 16th edition of the Carlos V European Award, which is aimed at rewarding individuals, organisations, projects or initiatives that have contributed to the general knowledge and enhancement of Europe’s cultural, social, scientific and historical values as well as to the process of European construction and integration through their efforts.

A course on Charles V and America analyses the legitimacy of the occupation in the Indian territories

A course on Charles V and America analyses the legitimacy of the occupation in the Indian territories

Yuste Foundation has organised the 1st Symposium “Charles V and America. Ethics in the Hispanic Occupation of the Indies and in the Indigenous Integration during the Carolinian Period” along with the Research Group Extremadura and America (Extrem@mérica). The event will be held on 24 and 25 November in the assembly hall of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (the campus in Cáceres) of the University of Extremadura.