On the morning of March 22, IBEI hosted a policy roundtable on the relations between the European Union and the Latin American and Caribbean states, the birregional agenda and upcoming steps. Anna Ayuso (Senior Research Fellow at CIDOB), Adrián Bonilla (Executive Director at the EU-LAC Foundation) Yanina Welp (Research Fellow at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, Geneva Graduate Institute), and Manuel Szapiro (Director and representative of the European Commission in Barcelona) participated in the event. Andrea C. Bianculli, Associate Professor at IBEI and Project Coordinator of LAC-EU, chaired the roundtable.

On March 22, Dr Anna Barrera, Director of Programmes at the EU-LAC Foundation (Hamburg, Germany) offered a seminar in the framework of the Practitioner Seminar Series organised by IBEI, an initiative that gives the floor to practitioners in the field of international relations, security and development. Dr Barrera is a political Scientist specialising in the relations between the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean and currently coordinates bi-regional initiatives in the fields of scientific cooperation, gender equality, transitional justice, multilateralism and culture.

On the afternoon of March 21, IBEI hosted a roundtable on the challenges of translation in the 21st century between Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe, with the participation of experts and renowned translators Isabelle Gugnon, Susanne Lange, Megan McDowell and Carolina Orloff. Maria Grau-Perejoan, Lecturer in Caribbean Literatures and Literary Translation at the University of Barcelona, chaired the discussion.