Overview

The EU-Latin American relations have developed and improved over the last decades and have become a paramount factor for both the success of the EU and the Latin American regions themselves, both independently and collectively. The bounty of diverse cultures spread across both Latin America and the EU, includes a vast diversity of languages and cultural traditions, while the openness of both regions to engage in intercultural activities and exchanges has been represented in significant ways in the development of their relations and cooperation. Further development of these relations and cooperation, requires moreover greater and intensive dialogue between these diverse cultures in order to maintain the positive momentum.

We have therefore initiated the "EU-Latin America Forum on Cultural Diplomacy" in order to explore and present innovative applications and methods of cultural diplomacy that can be used to develop and strengthen these relations even greater. Due to the complexity of the multi-layered relations between these two regions, cultural diplomacy is of great significance in order to lay the foundations for more intensive cooperation.

The forum will include a variety of different events including the fields of international relations and economics, peace building, human rights, folklore, arts and culture. The conference curriculum will include a diverse range of topics for discussion and also focus on specific topics within the field of EU-Latin American Cultural Diplomacy in order to provide a wide and detailed analysis and varying perspectives. Through discussion, lectures and analysis, the forum will highlight the growing need to develop a sustainable EU- Latin American Cultural Diplomacy based activities. 

Forum Speakers

Speakers during the forum will include leading politicians, diplomats, governmental officials, senior academics, and artists. These speakers will include individuals from the ICD Advisory Board. To learn more about the ICD Advisory Board, please click here.

Forum Locations

Located in Potsdam, near Berlin, the forum will be hosted at the ICD Academy House, as well as at a selection of significant political, historic, and cultural venues across the city of Berlin."

Forum Participants »

Participation in the Forum is open to government and diplomatic officials, academics, artists, representatives of civil society, members of the private sector, as well as young professionals and students.

If you would like to reserve a position and participate in the conference, please click on the link below and fill out the online application form:

Registration

Participant Papers »

The Forum Committee encourages rigorous academic research and analysis on issues related to the objectives of the Forum. Accordingly, the Committee warmly invites Forum participants to submit papers for consideration, both for presentation during the Forum and for inclusion in the proposal document that will be issued following the event and distributed to governments and leaders of the international community worldwide.