November will be a vibrant month for our community, featuring four major international events where our doctoral candidates and partner institutions will take an active role in advancing EU–LAC academic collaboration.

On 17 September, two roundtables on literary networks took place during the LAC–EU Summer School in Barcelona. Open to the public, the sessions featured writers Fernanda García Lao (Argentina), Quinny Martínez (Colombia), Teresa Ruiz Rosas (Peru), Andreia Moroni (Translator and General Coordinator of the Instituto Guimarães Rosa Barcelona) and Eduardo Ruiz Sosa (Writer, Curator of the KM Amèrica Festival, and Editor at Candaya), who reflected on the dynamics of cultural exchange between Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe.

The LAC-EU Summer School 2025, held from 15 to 17 September at the Universitat de Barcelona, brought together leading scholars, policymakers, and doctoral researchers to reflect on the future of relations between the European Union (EU) and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Organized under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network “Understanding Latin American Challenges in the 21st Century (LAC-EU)”, led by IBEI, this event combined academic debate, public dialogue, and doctoral training. The Summer School joined about 20 PhDs, their supervisors and associated partners to the doctoral network.