The 22 countries of the Ibero-American community have approved a final declaration and a package of agreements on artificial intelligence, civil protection, and academic mobility in Madrid. Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Paraguay dissociated themselves from one of the paragraphs.
The 22 countries of the Ibero-American community approved in Madrid, following the summit held on Wednesday and Thursday, a final declaration and a package of agreements on artificial intelligence, civil protection, academic mobility, and care.
According to infobae.com, the text was passed despite reservations from several governments. Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Paraguay dissociated themselves from the paragraph that rejects coercion and measures contrary to International Law. The applied mechanism allows for expressing disagreements on specific points without blocking the whole, something that prevented a repeat of what happened at the XXIX Summit, held in Cuenca (Ecuador) in November 2024, which ended without an official declaration.
The main digital agreement is the creation of the Ibero-American Alliance for Artificial Intelligence, which is voluntary to join. It aims to cooperate in accessing quality data, developing models adapted to the region's languages, and sharing computing capacity.
The alliance also includes an Ibero-American Data Space, a network where each country decides what information to share. It will seek to connect existing projects such as ALIA (Spain), AMALIA (Portugal), Latam-GPT (Chile), and SoberanIA (Brazil).
Argentina and Paraguay have dissociated themselves from the alliance. Argentina has also distanced itself from the Ibero-American Charter of Academic Mobility and the Ibero-American Charter of Care and Support.
The summit consolidated the Ibero-American Network for Disaster Risk Reduction and Civil Protection, comprising the 22 countries. Its goal is to improve prevention and response to hurricanes, floods, fires, and earthquakes, with a Multi-Threat Early Warning System and technical training programs.
The network will not have its own intervention forces. It will serve to coordinate the resources and knowledge of national civil protection systems. The SEGIB will serve as the Technical Secretariat, with support from the General Secretariat of Civil Protection and Emergencies of Spain.
Spain plans to contribute one million euros to a support fund for the network, in collaboration with CAF. Andorra will assume the rotating presidency on January 1, 2027.
The Academic Mobility Charter establishes principles to facilitate exchanges, transfer of records, dual degrees, and recognition of studies. It does not create automatic degree equivalence, although it aims to reduce administrative barriers.
The governments also approved four new cooperation instruments and the Ibero-American Cooperation Strategy 2027-2030.
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