Presidents of Portugal and Italy and King of Spain together in Braga at COTEC Europe meeting | Diplomacy
The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the King of Spain, Felipe VI, and the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, will be together on Wednesday, in Braga, at the XV meeting of the business organization COTEC Europa.
According to a note from the Presidency of the Republic, the three heads of state will attend the meeting session to be held at Theatro Cir Braga with the theme “Culture at the Meeting of Innovation”.
According to the initiative’s page, the COTEC Europa meetings have been organized since 2005 and are held annually in Spain, Italy and Portugal, on a rotating basis, and have the participation of “business leaders, policy makers and academics from all sectors of activity. economy, as well as with the presence of the heads of state of the three countries of Southern Europe”.
According to the organization, the XV COTEC Europe Meeting “will reflect on the deepening of relations between the Creative and Cultural Industries (CCI) and the rest of the economy, their synergistic effects and competitive advantages”.
The impact of cultural heritage as a factor of cultural relevance as an investment by companies sympathetic to investment in culture or the focus on the “role of culture as an element of bringing people together” will be some of the themes of the meeting.
Speakers at the meeting will be Ana Pinho, president of the Administrative Council of the Serralves Foundation, Clemens Pflanz, member of the European Alliance for Creative Industries (ECCIA), Concha Andreu, president of the La Rioja Region, Costanza Miliani, director of Institute of Sciences of Italian Cultural Heritage, Guta Moura Guedes, president of Experimentadesign, or the president of Braga City Council, Ricardo Rio, among others.
The general directors of the COTEC Portugal associations, Jorge Portugal from Spain, Jorge Barrero and from Italy, Luigi Nicolais, are also among the speakers at the meeting.