This summer course "Relations between European Union-Latin America and Caribbean: a renewed agenda and programme for recovery within the framework of the SDGs", implemented in close collaboration between the Yuste Foundation and the EU-LAC Foundation, with the collaboration of the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB), the Euro-America Foundation and the University of Extremadura, in the week of 19 to 23 July 2021 in virtual format, started from the understanding that, already before the pandemic, the Latin American and the Caribbean region registered its lowest period of economic growth in the last seven decades after years of economic growth at high rates.
The course was organised within the framework of the Conference on the Future of Europe promoted by the European Institutions, and was directed by Adrián Bonilla, Executive Director of the EU-LAC Foundation and Rebeca Grynspan, former Secretary General of the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB), and coordinated by Miguel Ángel Martín Ramos, Head of European Affairs and Delegate of the Yuste Foundation in Brussels, and Lorena Chano Regaña, Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Extremadura, who served as secretaries and moderators of the course.
This summer course was dedicated to analysing the current situation and seeking answers to the challenges facing the region within the framework of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Possible options were explored to work on policies and programmes for the recovery of Latin America and the Caribbean, and options were examined to develop a renewed agenda in bi-regional relations between the European Union (EU) and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) that contributes to processing these common challenges, also taking into account the commitment to a strengthened multilateralism and initiatives to mitigate climate change and opt for digitalisation as possible valid instruments for the management of global issues.