MADRID IS INTERNATIONAL

Founded in 2006, it functions as a strategic centre for Spain’s relations with the Arab world. It is a joint initiative between national and regional administrations with its own legal personality. It is headed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It serves as a meeting point for different public and private actors and institutions in business, education, academia, politics and culture. They also dialogue, interact, establish lines of cooperation and undertake joint projects.

This public diplomacy institution was founded in 2001 and is led by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It was created to contribute to improving understanding and promote relations between Asia-Pacific societies and Spain in the institutional, economic, cultural and educational spheres, as well as to bring points of view closer together and facilitate the exchange of cultures, ideas and projects of shared interest.

This public interest consortium was founded in 1992 and is led by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It aims to strengthen ties between Spain and the Americas, especially Ibero-America. It organises events including seminars, conferences, panel discussions, exhibitions, film screenings, and symposiums.

Since 2009, Madrid City Council has provided a headquarters for this Foundation, which is an official Japanese cultural body (analogous to Spain’s Instituto Cervantes). It aims to strengthen cultural, economic and tourism links with Japan and satisfy Spain’s cultural interest in that country, which has grown exponentially among the people of Madrid in recent years.

A private non-profit foundation under the honorary presidency of H.M. the King of Spain, in which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other public and private entities participate. It is a space for reflection, a laboratory for ideas and a generator of publications that analyses international politics from a Spanish perspective, with the participation of leading experts from a wide range of academic, professional and ideological backgrounds. Through its patronage of this institution, the Madrid City Council participates in constructing a Spanish, multilateral vision of today’s world, complementing its work in city diplomacy and contributing to Spain’s external action.

Founded in 2006, this public association is promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to establish a meeting place for Jewish communities and organisations in Spain and worldwide. It disseminates the rich Sephardic historical legacy and the political, economic, social and cultural reality of the Jewish communities worldwide and of Israel and Spain. It is also the organisation that represents Spain in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.

A private charitable association sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which brings together public and private entities to promote and deepen bilateral relations with Australia, a priority country in Spain’s foreign policy towards Asia and the Pacific.

This private non-profit foundation supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs brings together public and private entities. It aims to promote bilateral exchange between Spain and China from a global approach and across various economic, cultural, educational, and legal fields. It has its own programmes and activities to create a permanent focus on China within the exercise of Public Diplomacy.

A private cultural initiative promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which brings together public and private entities and seeks to promote mutual understanding between the two countries. It coordinates efforts in different sectors and promotes scientific, technological, research, cultural and academic interests focused on India, as well as promoting economic, trade and business cooperation within the exercise of Public Diplomacy.

This private non-profit institution is sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and brings together public and private bodies. It aims to enrich the content of bilateral relations in the economic, cultural, educational or scientific fields between Spain and Japan and to create a permanent focus on Japan in society within the exercise of Public Diplomacy.