The Diplomat
The Instituto Cervantes and its counterpart in the United Kingdom, the British Council, have renewed their collaboration agreement by signing a new memorandum of understanding to strengthen bilateral dialogue and promote joint work between both institutions.
This memorandum – signed on September 25 and the second signed by both parties – seeks to expand the framework of cooperation that the two countries maintain in the field of cultural diplomacy. Furthermore, it provides continuity, in the post-Brexit context, to the collaboration that began in 2019, the year in which the first joint work agreement was signed.
With the new agreement, understanding is expanded in areas such as the arts, language, education, intercultural dialogue, research or creative industries, improving shared knowledge for development and innovation.
Within the framework of the new memorandum, officials from both parties held the first working meeting at the headquarters of the Cervantes Institute. The general secretary, Carmen Noguero, participated on behalf of Cervantes; the Academic Director, Carmen Pastor, as well as the Director and Deputy Director of International Relations, Luis Marina and Philippe Robertet, respectively. The regional director of the British Council Europe, Lucy Watkins, led the visiting delegation, accompanied by its financial director, Thy Nowak-Tran, and by the acting director of the British Council Spain, Sylvia Edvinson.
