Portugal and Cuba renewed their bilateral cooperation program this Thursday and are committed to expanding cooperation relations in areas such as language, education, science, technology, culture, sports, youth and media, announced the Camões Institute.
This bilateral cooperation program, established within the framework of the Cultural Cooperation Agreement between Portugal and Cuba of 1998, aims to replace the previous program, starting in 2016.
EU calls for release of detainees in Cuba after year of protests
The program provides for the development of cooperation with Cuban universities, for the promotion and teaching of the Portuguese language and culture, through Camões – Institute of Cooperation and Language, as well as the study of the possibility of integrating the teaching of Portuguese as a language foreign. in Cuban universities, with a curricular nature.
According to Camões, it is still planned cooperation for the exchange of scholarships and the creation of internet platformsspecifically for distance learning in Portuguese and Spanish.
Court of Accounts recommends measures to the Government in the face of failures and irregularities at the Camões Institute
support for translation and editing of Portuguese language authors abroad, strengthen cooperation in the most diverse fields — such as music, literature, books, libraries, archives of cultural heritage, audiovisual cinema — are also defined in the agreement.
EITHER Exchange and cooperation between the two states in the areas of science, technology and higher education are also planned.as well as in the field of sport, youth and the media.
Source: Observadora
