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With the aim of exploring the links between technological changes and international relations, the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation, the University of Extremadura, and the Research Centre for Ibero-American Studies of Rey Juan Carlos University have organised the 7th International Congress on Relations between Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe. This year’s edition, entitled “Digitalisation, Artificial Intelligence, and International Relations”, will take place on 1 April at the Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe.

With the aim of exploring the links between technological changes and international relations, the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation, the University of Extremadura, and the Research Centre for Ibero-American Studies of Rey Juan Carlos University have organised the 7th International Congress on Relations between Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe. This year’s edition, entitled “Digitalisation, Artificial Intelligence, and International Relations”, will take place on 1 April at the Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe.

More than sixty judges, notaries, and registrars from Spain and Ibero-America gathered on 11 and 12 March at the Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe for the third edition of the course on “Ibero-American and European Agricultural and Livestock Law”, organised by the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation and the General Council of the Judiciary under the agreement signed between both institutions.

The third edition of the course on “Ibero-American and European Agricultural and Livestock Law”, organised by the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation and the General Council of the Judiciary, under the agreement signed between both institutions, brings together judges, notaries, registrars, and legal professionals from Spain and Ibero-America on 11 and 12 March at the Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation has received thirty-one doctoral theses competing for the 2025 Research Prize to Ibero-American Doctoral Theses. The award aims to support the work of young researchers while fostering reflection and the exchange of ideas on Ibero-American and European topics. The submitted theses come from universities in Spain, Mexico, Ecuador, Argentina, Hungary, Colombia, Portugal, the United States, Cuba, France, and the Dominican Republic.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation has launched the 18th edition of the Carlos V European Award with the aim of recognising individuals, organisations, projects, or initiatives that have contributed to the broader understanding and promotion of Europe’s cultural, social, scientific, and historical values, or to the unification of the European Union. This award includes an economic endowment of €30,000.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation has opened the call for applications for 18 Carlos V European Award – Angela Merkel European Research and Mobility Grants for European Studies. Each grant is valued at €2,500, with a total allocation of €45,000 for this call.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation opened the call for applications for the Research Prize to Ibero-American Doctoral Theses, aimed at supporting the development of research work while promoting reflection and the exchange of ideas among university researchers and professionals on Ibero-American and European topics.

The Regional Government of Extremadura and the board of trustees and staff of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation express their deepest condolences on the passing, at the age of 90, of Federico Mayor Zaragoza, former minister of Education and Science and former director-general of UNESCO. Mayor Zaragoza was also a member of the Academy of Yuste since 2008, when he was inducted into the Leonardo Da Vinci chair during the ceremony to deliver the Carlos V European Award to French lawyer and politician Simone Veil.

The board of trustees of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation, which convened today under the presidency of the president of the Regional Government of Extremadura and chair of this board, María Guardiola, approved the action plan for 2025. This comprehensive programme encompasses around one hundred activities aimed at furthering the study and analysis of European and Ibero-American realities, while also promoting and strengthening Extremadura’s ties with Europe and Ibero-America.