Columbus, standing for ‘COLlaboration on University Management : a Bridge between Universities and Scholars’ is a transnational collaboration project launched by the CRE in 1987. It aimed at developing cooperation between European and Latin American universities.

Programme Columbus, was declared in October 1995 as a legally independent entity, by the CRE and the Association of Latin American Universities. Afterwards, the CRE was only an intermediary in relations between Columbus and its funding entities.

The Columbus association is still, as of June 2019, an ongoing initiative.

These file cover the relations of the CRE with Latin America, from the first instances of relations established before the creation of Columbus to Columbus' starting point as a programme of the CRE , and up to its first years as an official parallel association.

They include the meetings of Columbus governing bodies, the various conferences and visits that were organised for rectors from Europe and Latin America, as well as the correspondence exchanged in the context of this program.

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