126 4 | Sustainability at PRISA Cultural Industries Forum Warning! Save Culture! For a new cultural model With the Fundación Alternativas Madrid, Spain. December 13 The eighth edition of the Cultural Industries Forum brought together professionals, guilds and asso-ciations from the world of culture to define the new cultural model that Spain so urgently needs. The event also saw the presentation of the report “The French example. How France protects Culture”, a document commissioned by the forum in order to analyze the existing model of public cultural poli-cies in France. The Forum closed with the reading of a letter addressed to the Spanish Parliament covering the main points to be addressed in the current legislature. Library of Governance and Human Rights Presentation of the book Latin America and the Global World (Marcial Pons, 2016) Madrid, Spain. December 15 This fourth volume of the Library of Governance and Human Rights reflects on the current situation in Latin America. It shows how social contracts are characterized by a combination of implicit and ex-plicit agreements that determine what each social group should contribute to the state and what they can expect to receive from it. Participants included: Ignacio Polanco, president of the Santillana Foundation; Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary General of the Secretaría General Ibe-roamericana (SEGIB); Rosa Conde, sociologist; Joaquin Estefania and Pedro A. Martinez Lillo, co-directors of the Jesús de Polanco Chair for Ibe-ro- American Studies. New agreements signed Iberoamerican Television (TEIB) Madrid, Spain. February 23 The Santillana Foundation and Iberoamerican Te-levision (TEIB) signed a wide ranging collaboration agreement. The first initiative will see the TEIB pro-mote and cover all of the Foundation’s relevant acti-vities (Culture) in Latin America. The TEIB is present in 21 countries through 114 television associated channels, and its content is distributed by satellite in America, Europe, Asia and Africa through the TVE Internacional and online at www.atei.es. Instituto Centroamericano de Gobernabilidad Madrid, Spain. March 31 The Santillana Foundation and the Instituto Cen-troamericano de Gobernabilidad signed an agree-ment for the development of academic programs and joint publications. From Costa Rica, the Insti-tute will promote the activities that the Santillana Foundation organizes through its Masters in Go-vernance and Human Rights. The network of Cen-tral American universities that are integrated into the Institute will contribute its academic staff to the research programs of the Foundation. La Térmica. Center for Contemporary Culture of Malaga Malaga, Spain. November 11 The specific framework agreement foresees an an-nual joint initiative dedicated to the dissemination of philosophy as cultural heritage, to intellectual exercise and civic training. The project will include a festival of philosophy and philosophy workshops on a monthly basis in 2017. The aim is to bring to-gether leading thinkers for a series of debates and talks in the city of Malaga. Education Education figures prominently in the social poli-cies and budgetary projections of Latin American countries. They have all made a remarkable effort and have achieved significant quantitative tar-gets. Even so, the quality of our learning systems can be improved upon, as evidenced by the re-sults of international education assessments and the low competitiveness of the economies in the region. The activity of the Santillana Foundation seeks to support, promote and expand the improvement of education through seminars, conferences, forums for discussion and the exchange of information. We are committed to the promotion, publication and dissemination of studies, evaluations and re-
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