The EU-LAC Foundation was created in 2010 by the Heads of State and Government of the European Union (EU) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) member states. Its Members are the Member states of the EU and CELAC as well as the EU itself. The Foundation is a tool of the EU-LAC partnership and its activities feed into the intergovernmental dialogue, in line with the bi-regional Action Plan.

The EU-LAC Foundation was entrusted with the mission of strengthening and promoting the strategic bi-regional relationship, enhancing its visibility and fostering active participation of the respective civil societies.

The last Newsletter gather the news, events and publications in the last four months. ; highlighting the III EU-CELAC Summit. The newsletter introduces the reports of three of the events organised by the EU-LAC Foundation prior to the III EU-CELAC Summit: the EU-LAC Fora on Gender Equality, Knowledge, and Just Transitions. In addition, it invites to the EU-LAC Multi-actor Dialogue Forum, which will follow up on the agreements reached at the meeting of Heads of State and Government.

The Summit was the most significant event in the bi-regional relationship in recent years. The mere fact that it was able to take place and to have agreed on a substantive document of common policies expressed in the Final Declaration, shows the need of the 61 member governments of our Foundation to keep alive the commitment to sustain and advance in a relationship of strategic partnership, which is vital for all its members in the process of renewal of the international order we are living through.

Regarding EU-LAC relationships in raw materials, ERA-MIN was presented by the Spanish funding agency, AEI, last 22nd to 24th May in the EU-Latin America Convention on Raw Materials 2023. The convention took place in the frame of the European project EU-LAC partnership on Raw Materials at the same time of the International Argentinian Fair of Mining Industry. 

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