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The board of trustees and the staff of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation regret the death of the 97-year-old French sociologist Alain Touraine, member of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste. Touraine assumed the Antonio Lucio Vivaldi Chair of the Academy during the award ceremony of the Carlos V European Award to Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio in 2004.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation inaugurated the Carlos V European Award – Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe Doctoral Seminar. In this activity ten doctoral candidates who have been awarded one of the European Research and Mobility Grants on European Studies will be presenting their research work dealing with the topic “Culture, heritage, history and memory for the promotion of European values, integration and peace” from a multidisciplinary point of view.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation will be visited by students from the Diplomatic School on Tuesday, 6th of June. They will learn about the Foundation’s work as well as the significance of this historic place as far as international relations are concerned.

Yuste Foundation has launched the project “Youth and Human Rights Activism” along with the Extremaduran Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AEXCID) with the aim of creating a meeting, support and networking platform of people interested in generating messages that transform society and raise awareness of the importance and value of respect for universal human rights.

The European Disability Forum held the 5th European Parliament of Persons with Disabilities yesterday under the theme “Building an inclusive future for persons with disabilities in the EU”. This event counted with the financial support, together with the European Parliament and the European Commission, of Yuste Foundation through the financial endowment of the Carlos V European Award, which was delivered to the European Disability Forum in 2022.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation held the 16th Carlos V European Award ceremony this Tuesday at the Monastery of San Jerónimo de Yuste. In this edition, the award was delivered to the Portuguese politician and Secretary-General of the UN, António Guterres. The ceremony was presided over by King Felipe VI.

The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, will receive the Carlos V European Award next Tuesday, 9 May, at 11 am at the Monastery of San Jerónimo de Yuste during a ceremony that will be presided over by His Majesty King Felipe VI, who is the honorary president of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation.

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.