The Diplomat
The Council of Ministers approved last Tuesday the Royal Decree granting a subsidy of 1.25 million euros to the Carolina Foundation to finance its current expenses, operating or structure that integrate the training program and its activities of leadership and analysis.
The Carolina Foundation was established in 2000 as a public-private entity of Spain’s foreign action for the promotion of cultural relations and cooperation in educational and scientific matters between Spain and the countries of the Ibero-American Community of Nations, as well as with other countries with special historical, cultural or geographical links.
In addition, the Government will grant another subsidy of 50,000 euros to the private foundation Casa Amèrica Catalunya, also to finance its running, operating or structural expenses that make up the programming.
Casa Amèrica Catalunya was founded in 2005 (from the former Casa de América in Barcelona, founded in 1911, and the now defunct Catalan Institute for Ibero-American Cooperation, ICCI) with the aim of consolidating the links between Latin America and Catalonia through culture. To this end, it offers a wide range of exhibitions, seminars and seminars of debate and study, literary and musical spaces or film cycles. Its board of trustees is made up of the Barcelona City Council, the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID), which reports to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Both direct subsidies for cultural cooperation and promotion of postgraduate education in Ibero-America will be provided by the AECID, whose competencies include, precisely, the management and execution of public policies for cultural cooperation for development, cooperation in the field of human capital training and the competencies attributed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the promotion and development of cultural and scientific relations with other countries.
