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Medellín and Trujillo will become focal points in order to study the polyhedral figure of Hernán Cortés. Academicians and experts from both sides of the Atlantic will meet at the international congress “Hernán Cortés in the 21st century. 5th centenary of Cortés’ arrival in Mexico (1519-2019)”, organised by the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation and the Extremaduran Historical Federation.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation and the Jean Monnet Module on European Integration of the University of Extremadura have organised the course “Achievements and Limitations of 60 Years of European Integration”, inaugurated today at the Royal Monastery of Yuste, which is the Foundation’s head office. This course closes the Yuste Campus programme’s summer courses.

The objective pursued in the course “Conflict resolution, peace, gender and development”, celebrated from the 11^th to the 13^th of July at the Royal Monastery of Yuste, is to tackle strategies -from a global approach and with local practices- in order to make progress in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal 16, which seeks to promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation offers ten “Carlos V European Award European Research and Mobility Grants for European Studies” in order to carry out research work on “The European project’s modernisation and governance in a plural framework with shared values and goals”. The grants deal with European history, memory and integration, where the framework and priority is the profile of the awarded person, institution, project or initiative in each edition with the Carlos V European Award. Those eligible for one of the grants may propose innovative research lines referring to the main subject of the call, bearing in mind the specific and cross-sectional priorities of the call.

To analyse the binomial war-peace at both sides of the Atlantic during the reign of Charles V; this is the reason why international academicians and experts meet from today until 6 July, in Yuste, in order to carry out the course “Charles V: War and Peace on Both Sides of the Atlantic”. Organised by the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation and the Cooperation Network of European Routes of Emperor Charles V of the Council of Europe in collaboration with the Regional Government of Extremadura, this course will also attempt to study the perception that the actors of those conflicts had and the consequences they caused in the politics of the time.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation presented the comic Descalzos. Los doce apóstoles de México, by the illustrator Mayte Alvarado in Guadalupe. This is the seventh volume of the Collection “Extremeños en Iberoamérica y Europa-Historieta”.

The Director of the Extremaduran Agency for International Development Cooperation (AEXCID), Ángel Calle, stated today that the 2030 Agenda is “the agenda of current opportunities because we have to keep sharing; future ones, because we need a sustainable development model; and those of the future generation and global opportunities”.

The Royal Monastery of Yuste hosts the international seminar “Latin American and the European Union Relations: a Renewed Political Alliance?”, where the economic growth that different regions are experiencing  and how this fact presents challenges from the economic and geopolitical point of view will be analysed from transdisciplinary approaches. It is in this framework that they are analysing how the relations between the European Union and Latin America are and how they may evolve.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation and the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB) have organised the international seminar “Latin American and the European Union Relations: a Renewed Political Alliance?”), which will be held the 25th and the 26th of June at the Royal Monastery of Yuste Foundation, which is the Foundation’s headquarters. The course is sponsored by the European Union – Latin America and Caribbean Foundation (EU-LAC Foundation).

Youths from different Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, American and Dutch universities have participated in the call for grants offered in order to attend the six summer courses organised by the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation within its training programme Yuste Campus. These courses are included within the framework of the 19^th International Summer Courses organised by the University of Extremadura.