Culture and Sport and the Organization of Ibero-American States to promote cultural cooperation

The joint action by the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI) and the Ministry of Culture and Sport will make it possible to promote key areas such as digital culture, through the Ibero-American Chair of Digital Culture and Intellectual Property, a joint initiative of the OEI and the University of Alicante that seeks to generate knowledge about it.

It also plans to develop and extend the Cultural Routes and Itineraries in Ibero-America, an initiative of the Council of Europe that studies the cultural value of these routes and encourages the creation of new routes in the Ibero-American region. Strengthening ties and cultural cooperation between Europe and Ibero-America, or collaborating in studies, events and cultural activities of common interest are other examples of the work that the OEI and the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport will develop from now on.

This agreement is in addition to previous agreements between the two organisations, such as the one signed in 2010, which made it possible to hold the third Ibero-American culture congress, the 2011 memorandum of understanding for the implementation of the Ibero-American museum observatory, and the 2013 agreement, which led to the development of the latter.

About the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI)

Under the motto 'We make cooperation happen', the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI) is, since 1949, the first intergovernmental organisation for South-South cooperation in the Ibero-American space. It currently has 23 Member States and 18 national offices, in addition to its Secretariat General in Madrid.

With more than 500 active agreements with public entities, universities, civil society organisations, companies and other international bodies, the OEI represents one of the largest cooperation networks in Ibero-America. Among its results, the organisation has contributed to the drastic reduction of illiteracy in Ibero-America, providing literacy and basic education to nearly 2.3 million young people and adults, as well as training more than 100,000 Ibero-American teachers.

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