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We are hiring! Apply by June 16 to become LAC-EU’s Project Manager

The Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, coordinator of LAC-EU, invites applications for a Project Manager position for our Doctoral Network. Apply by June 16.

Andrea C. Bianculli and Anna Ayuso will participate in a round table on EU-LAC relations

Entitled, “A New Transatlantic Momentum? Europe and Latin America on the Road to the EU–CELAC Summit”, this round table aims to explore the state of EU–LAC relations in the run-up to the 2025 EU–CELAC Summit.

New Strategic Partnership: Casa Amèrica Catalunya and IBEI Sign Agreement to Strengthen EU-LAC cultural, social and policy dialogue

On 29 May 2025, the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) and Casa Amèrica Catalunya formalised a significant partnership to strengthen cultural and policy ties between Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean (LAC). 

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.