Spain has reiterated to Unesco its interest in organising and hosting the next World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development, Mondiacult, scheduled for 2025. At a meeting held this afternoon at Unesco’s headquarters in Paris, the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, told the Director-General of Unesco, Audrey Azoulay, that if Spain were to be the chosen candidate, the venue Spain would offer would be Barcelona.

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Mondiacult 2025

Mondiacult is the main international meeting on cultural policies. So far, it has been held twice, both in Mexico, in 1982 and 2022. The celebration of Mondiacult 2022 was a milestone for the consideration of culture as a Global Public Good. The Government of Spain firmly supported this objective, as expressed in the Cáceres Declaration, promoted by the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union and unanimously adopted by the 27 ministers of culture of the EU.

Spain defends its candidacy as an international cultural reference and as one of the states with the highest number of declarations and good practices in the total sum of the three Culture Conventions (1972, 2001 and 2003). It has also developed, promoted and fully ratified the values set out in these conventions. It is currently a member of the Executive Board of Unesco for the third consecutive term (2023-2027) and aspires to join the committee of the 2003 Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage, of which it was already a member from 2009 to 2013.

Spain’s candidacy
Last October, the then acting Minister of Culture and Sport, Miquel Iceta, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, sent a letter to the Director-General of Unesco, in which the Spanish Government stated that, in presenting its candidacy to organise Mondiacult 2025, it wished to continue working to raise the profile of culture in the world, It also wishes to continue working to raise culture to the level of global recognition as a Global Public Good, initiating the creation of the World Forum on Cultural Policies and supporting Unesco in its objective to place culture at the forefront of public policies and international cooperation.