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Save the Date: Upcoming Webinars within our series linked to COVID-19

8 May 2020

Ratifications

6 May 2020

As of 6 May 2020, 18 countries from Latin America and the Caribbean and 19from the European Union as well as the European Union itself have ratified the Agreement that transforms the EU-LAC Foundation into an International Organisation.

This Agreement entered into force on 17 May 2019.

Q&A - I Webinar EU-LAC facing COVID-19

30 April 2020

On April 27th , the webinar "Regional Organisations and EU-CELAC Association facing COVID-19" was held. This was the first in a series that the EU-LAC Foundation is organizing to compare and share national and regional experiences in dealing with the pandemic crisis and to discuss challenges to...

The EU-LAC Foundation and the University of Copenhagen have signed two cooperation agreements

28 April 2020

As a result of the first official mission of the EU-LAC Foundation to Denmark in February, Executive Director Paola Amadei has signed a cooperation agreement with the University of Copenhagen through Tina Lupton, head of the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Languages (ENGEROM), which...

New Contribution from the European Union for the EU-LAC Foundation

28 April 2020

The European Union (EU) allocated a second instalment of € 344.973,30 to the Foundation’s general budget which corresponds to the approved grant for the period from October 2018 to August 2020 for a total of € 1.500.000,00. This allocation is funded via the Partnership Instrument.

Including...

EU-LAC Foundation's staff combines working on-site and remotely

28 April 2020

In view of the gradual loosening up of measures adopted by the German authorities for the containment of COVID-19, the staff of the EU-LAC Foundation will return from this week progressively to their on-site work at the headquarters, combined with teleworking from home.

The Foundation applies these...

Dr. Adrián Bonilla is appointed as Executive Director of the EU-LAC Foundation

30 March 2020

We congratulate Dr. Adrián Bonilla of Ecuador for his appointment by unanimous decision of the Board of Governors, as Executive Director of the Foundation for the next 4 years. Mr. Bonilla will take up his duties as soon as he can travel safely to Hamburg. The current Executive Director will remain...

Executive Director Paola Amadei receives the "Ritzebüttel Portugaleser" Medal

16 March 2020

On 16 March 2020, Executive Director Paola Amadei was awarded the “Ritzebüttel Portugaleser” Medal of the Hamburg Senate by State Councillor Almut Möller. After the ceremony there was a working meeting where the continuous work of the last 4 years and the plans and initiatives for 2020 were...

EU-LAC Foundation's staff working remotely

13 March 2020

From Monday 22.03, the staff of the EU-LAC Foundation will work only remotely following the recommendations given by the national and local authorities of the City of Hamburg for the containment of COVID-19.

Please note that you can still reach us per e-mail and that the regular working hours...

Antigua and Barbuda accedes to the Agreement that establishes the EU-LAC Foundation as an International Organisation

9 March 2020

Antigua and Barbuda accedes to the Agreement that establishes the EU-LAC Foundation as an International Organisation

Antigua and Barbuda acceded to the Constitutive Agreement of the EU-LAC International Foundation, becoming the 18th State of Latin America and the Caribbean to have either ratified...

Jamaica ratifies Agreement to establish the EU-LAC Foundation as an International Organisation

3 March 2020

Jamaica became the 35th Member to ratify the Constitutive Agreement that transforms the EU-LAC Foundation into an International Organisation, therefore being the seventeenth State of CELAC to do so.

With this ratification, Jamaica thus attests its firm commitment to the strengthening of the...

Acknowledgments on occasion of the conclusion of the mandate of Dr. Leonel Fernández Reyna as President of the EU-LAC International Foundation

7 February 2020

The Foundation thanks Dr. Leonel Fernández Reyna, who ends his term as President of the EU-LAC Foundation today, for his commendable efforts in support of the various initiatives and activities carried out by the Foundation during the last four years. President Fernández owes the proposal of the...