The European University of the Atlantic (UNEATLANTICO) and the Ibero-American University Foundation (FUNIBER) have signed a collaboration agreement with the International Postgraduate Center of Equatorial Guinea “Veronica Eyang” (CIPVE) and the Equatoguinean Academy of the Spanish Language (AEGLE).
The rector of UNEATLANTICO, Rubén Calderón Iglesias, the director of Institutional Relations of the Ibero-American University Foundation (FUNIBER), F. Álvaro Durántez Prados, and Fernando Ignacio Ondo Ndjeng Afang, president of the Centro Internacional de Postgrados de Guinea Ecuatorial “Verónica Eyang” (CIPVE) and member of the Academia Ecuatoguineana de la Lengua Española (AEGLE), have formalized this agreement whose main objective is to strengthen and develop academic, scientific and cultural programs, as well as the exchange of teachers and professionals between the signatory institutions.
The agreement underscores the shared commitment of the four entities to promote knowledge and strengthen ties between Spanish-speaking countries. The agreement also seeks to highlight the African identity and dimension, especially the Equatoguinean one, within the multinational Iberophonic Space through the dissemination of Hispanic culture and the Spanish language.
Areas of collaboration include the development of national and international cooperation projects, the dissemination of undergraduate, graduate, master’s and doctoral academic programs in Equatorial Guinea, and the organization of joint conferences, courses and meetings. In addition, special emphasis will be placed on the training of teachers of Spanish as a foreign language, promoting a powerful educational offer for the African continent.
Similarly, the agreement also stipulates the creation of a FUNIBER representative office at the CIPVE facilities in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, to facilitate the management of scholarships and academic programs from which Equatoguinean students and alumni can benefit.
This agreement also seeks to promote cultural, economic and social progress through cooperation and the exchange of knowledge between the signatory institutions. It also consolidates a strategic alliance that promises great benefits for the educational and cultural spheres of the Spanish-speaking countries.
Specific agreement between FUNIBER and the International Center for Postgraduate Studies of Equatorial Guinea
For their part, representatives of the Ibero-American University Foundation and the International Graduate Center of Equatorial Guinea have signed a specific bilateral agreement aimed at distance training in more than eighty postgraduate academic programs, including specialties, masters and doctorates, with emphasis on the qualification of teachers in linguistics applied to the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language. This measure will promote, from Equatorial Guinea, the creation of a powerful Spanish language teaching offer for the entire African continent, a strategic objective within the framework of Iberophony.