The European Institute of International Studies (EIIS) joined to Permanent Academic Forum EU-LAC in 2014, when for first time, the EIIS participated in the Preparatory Seminar for the 2ndEU-LAC Academic Summit, organized by the Institute of Latin-American Studies at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA), which was held in Bucharest, between 26th and 27th May 2014. This Seminar promoted by the Executive Secretariat of the Permanent Academic Forum from the EU-LAC Summit together with the EU-LAC Foundation, is part of the objectives agreed in the Santiago Declaration, with a look to the celebration of the 2nd  EU-LAC Academic Summit in Brussels in 2015. In this Academic Summit in Brussels, EIIS accepts organize a Preparatory Seminar for III Academic Summit EU-CELAC which will be held in 2017.

For these reason the European Institute of International Studies (EIIS) will organize  the Preparatory Seminar for the III Academic Summit EU-CELAC which will be held in Stockholm on the 6th and 7th October 2016. This event represents an EIIS initiative, in partnership with the Executive Secretariat of the EU-CELAC Permanent Academic Forum and the EU-LAC Foundation and also with the collaboration of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden and the Stockholm University.