Board of Directors annual meeting, Cervantes Institute ended this Wednesday in Granada with the following challenge: strengthen the network between the different centers of the institution to promote international links and to promote cross-cutting activities from one country to another.
Announcing the results at a press conference, Carmen Noguero, general secretary of the Instituto Cervantes, pointed out that these are a group of centers, not a group of centers that the headquarters unite. network value available in a regionit allows connections to be made with the people and institutions of that region.
And that internal communication is what gives Cervantes a distinctive value that “must take advantage” in the current time of evolution and digital transformation to “cross borders”, he said.
“But let’s not forget the possibility of knowing our environment as we know it, I don’t think there is an institution that works that way,” said Noguero.
Noguero, whatCalled to work with “ambition and realism”He said the future challenge is to make the most of the network of Cervantes centers to handle pending projects, as it “wouldn’t work” without the involvement of those working at the headquarters alone and at the centres.
And pointed to the possibility of creating a new network: international links between centers that will enable “intersecting activities from one country to another”.
All this reminded us in the context of a change in which transformations are taken into consideration as if they would be made by artificial intelligence.
Earlier, the director of the Cervantes Institute had intervened., Luis Garcia MonteroAdvocating the language, Spanish culture and culture in Spanish is a task that becomes more important as globalization progresses.
Advocating this respect for diversity, García Montero said, with advances in science and technology, “We realize how important it is to have a language like Spanish that accustoms us to respect diversity,” because “no one owns the language.”
Garcia Montero,Economic and labor challenges to accept that work is sometimes done “uphill” but the profession of directors of Instituto Cervantes centers around the world “enables us to solve problems”.
During the action, a message was sent by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation. José Manuel AlbaresSeeing the Cervantes Institute for over 30 years as an important tool for the international promotion of the Spanish language.
He said that 2022 is the year of a return to normalcy, but that digital reality forces us to face new challenges and that Instituto Cervantes joining the Government’s resilience plan with a digitization program will provide a “solid foundation”. To take advantage of all the possibilities of the virtual”.
Saying that artificial intelligence opens up the horizons of possibilities for him that Spanish should be the driver of employment and economy, the minister said that the global Spanish observatory based in La Rioja will be an important part in developing strategies for the promotion of Spanish. growth.
The goal is to reach a world that increasingly thinks and speaks Spanish.”
Over three days, more than 70 Cervantes executives from around the world reviewed the year, strategized academically, culturally and administratively, and discussed future challenges in technological transformation, such as language and digital.