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LAC-EU will hold a summer school in Barcelona from September 15 to 19

Following a highly successful first network event in York in March 2025, the entire LAC-EU doctoral network will gather for its summer school, titled ‘Reimagining EU and LAC Relations.’ Hosted by the University of Barcelona, this event will span four and a half days. PhD researchers from the network will be joined by representatives from various institutions and other experts in relations between the European Union, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

Rethinking Latin America–Europe Relations: What Is at Stake in the 2025 EU–CELAC Summit

Join us on September 16 at Casa Amèrica Catalunya or online for a timely roundtable on EU–LAC relations ahead of the 2025 EU–CELAC Summit. Experts will debate key political, social, and economic challenges and opportunities shaping interregional cooperation in today’s shifting global order.

Read the first issue of LAC-EU’s newsletter

In the next three years, we will present in a biannual newsletter the activities carried out by the Doctoral Network, and the research produced by our Doctoral Candidates. In this first issue, learn about the network and its partners, and get to know LAC-EU’s Doctoral Candidates and their research projects.


Training the next
generation of LAC-EU experts

The LAC-EU Doctoral Network is a new Horizon Europe-Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network (MSCA-DN), providing 12 dynamic, forward-looking, and motivated doctoral fellows with the best possible research training and education to enable them to become the next generation of experts ready to take on a leading position to strengthen the role of the EU in the world and to promote a successful and sustainable relationship between the EU and LAC.

LAC-EU will provide a better understanding of recent transformations in LAC, contributing to update and renovate bi-regional relations between the EU and LAC, and to confront current global challenges.