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123 Social Responsibility and Sustainability Report 2017 | PRISA company will coordinate with the State Historic Pre-servation Office on the preservation of historical heri-tage. Another agreement with the University of Turabo seeks to improve education in the country, through the exchange of experiences, methodologies and content. Finally an alliance with UNESCO helped with the implementation of the program Coaches. In the Dominican Republic, Santillana sponsored the Ninth Congress of the Spanish Language, UNAPEC 2016, in order to provide a space for reflection on the process of learning Spanish. The company also colla-borated with the Caribbean Biodiversity Congress, a space that welcomes experts from around the world who are interested in learning about and protecting the diversity of the Caribbean. The Fundación Santillana Every year since its creation in 1979, the Fundación San-tillana, with its wide and varied program of activities, has consistently set the standard for initiatives in the fields of education, culture, journalism and governance by crea-ting spaces for reflection and dialogue, thus enabling the organization to consolidate its institutional presence. The established and solid nature of Grupo PRISA’s com-munications and publishing media in Spain, Portugal, Brazil and Spanish-speaking countries in the Ameri-cas, reinforces the presence of the Foundation across a broadly diverse linguistic, geographical and social region. In Latin America, the Foundation’s activities are focused on fostering debate on education, as well as su-pporting initiatives that encourage reading and literacy. Culture Masters in Governance and Human Rights Graduation ceremony With the Jesús de Polanco Chair for Ibero-American Studies Madrid, Spain. March 30 47 students from twenty different nationalities, the majority Latin American but also French, Swedish and Australian, were enrolled on the fif-th edition of the Masters. The UNAM lawyer and former president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Sergio Garcia Ramirez, gave the commencement address at the graduation ceremony. He began his address by remembe-ring Francisco Tomas y Valiente, killed by ETA twenty years ago and who is commemorated in the name of auditorium of the Faculty of law at the UAM, where the event was held. Other par-ticipants included José M. Sanz, Rector of the UAM; Ignacio Polanco, president of the Santilla-na Foundation; Juan Luis Cebrian, PRISA execu-tive chair; and Antonio Rovira, co-director of the Masters, among others. Master in Governance and Human Rights graduation ceremony


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