It was the eighth session of the series of international meetings that started the past month of April and that will extend all over the year until march of 2025, including 12 online talks in which 27 Cultural Observatories and Cultural Information Systems of different countries of Ibero-America will participate. These conferences, that take place every month on its third Monday, are open to the public, are hosted online (free entry and without prior registration) and they are spread through the webs of the observatories involved.

The panel discussion on Monday 18 November included the participation of the Observatory of Cultural politics of Chile, represented by Bárbara Negrón, and the participation of the University Observatory of Cultural Policies of the Centre for Latin American Interdisciplinary Studies of the Universidad de la República of Uruguay, in charge of Susana Dominzain. The session was moderated by Raúl Abeledo, the representative of the Cultural Observatory of the Universitat de València.

The discussion directed by the UV intended to share Ibero-American practices of projects that contribute to place the culture in the centre of public politics and the sustainable development of the territories.

Therefore, the representatives of the Chilean and Uruguayan observatories analysed the contributions of the projects developed by their organisms and territories to the public cultural and sustainable politics. Starting from the "explicit absence" of the culture in the 2030 Agenda, they also discussed over the strands of work that must be implemented in the observatory to make possible the integration of an specific cultural objective in the sustainable development agenda beyond 2030.

Some of the conclusions about the importance of the culture as a global public asset, the principal aim of these meetings, are already available in the Web of the Cultural Observatory UV in the seven panel discussions celebrated to date. 

The Ibero-American Panel Discussion are organised, together with the Universitat de València, by the Observatório de Políticas de Ciência, Comunicação e Cultura de la Universidade do Minho (Portugal) and the Observatório de Políticas Públicas Culturais da Universidade de Brasília (Brasil). This coincides with the 75 anniversary of the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI).

International Observatory Net
As the outcome of the sessions celebrated to date, the Cultural Observatory of the UV was invited to participate in the 4º Encounter of Politics and Economy of Culture in Cuenca (Ecuador) the past October, that for the first time included European universities: the Universitat de València (Spain) and the Universidade do Minho (Portugal).

Within this framework, the compromise acquired was ratified with the signing of the Collaboration Agreement and the Roadmap by 11 cultural observatories of 7 Latin American and European universities, and by 4 state organisms to boost the International Net of Observatories and Researchers of Politics and Economy of Culture.

This agreement means, after years of international debate, the first step to boost the online work between the signatories: the universities do Minho (Portugal), Brasília (Brazil), de las Artes (Ecuador), de la República (Uruguay), de Cuenca (Ecuador), de Buenos Aires (Argentina) y de València (Spain), and by the observatories of Cultural politics of Chile, Latin American of Cultural Management (México, Chile, Colombia, Argentina), de Culture and Economy of the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, and Itaú Cultural of Brazil.

On next panel discussions
There are still four meetings expected to take place before the completion of the series of the Ibero-American Panel Discussions with Observatories: on December 16 moderated by the Universidade federal da Bahia (Brazil); on January 20, by the Universidade do Minho (Portugal); on February 17, moderated by the Universitat de València; and, on March 17, when the Brazilian university will bring an end to the series.

The Cultural Observatory UV will organise, then, the eleventh session (17/02, 18:00 Spanish time), in which the Observatory of Cultural Politics of the Anthropology Faculty of the Universidad Veracruzana (OPC-FAUV), Mexico, and the Cultural Information System of Guatemala, as a part of the General Directorate of Cultural Development of the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Guatemala will take part.