The seminar titled “Opportunities created by the partnership between the European Union and the Andean countries: Global Gateway, investments, trade, and just green and digital transitions”, was co-organised by the EU-LAC Foundation and the General Secretariat of the Andean Community (SG-CAN) and took place at the headquarters of the SG-CAN in Lima on February 8, 2024. Its primary aim was to facilitate dialogue among representatives from various sectors of the Andean community, to exchange insights regarding the outcomes and opportunities arising from the 2023 Brussels Summit for their public policies and socio-economic development and to contribute with proposals to public policy in the most important issues of the agenda between the European Union and the Andean countries.
The seminar served to identify opportunities stemming from the Global Gateway investment initiative, formulate proposals for enhancing and strengthening cooperation, assess trends in European cooperation, exchange ideas concerning bi-regional cooperation challenges, and support the Andean integration process. Structured in a hybrid format, the seminar engaged 252 participants, with 75 attending in person and 177 joining online, 50% of which were women.