Free attends the Iberoamerican Council XXV Assembly of sport in Punta del Este

Madrid, 22 February 2019.-The secretary of state for sport, María José Free, attended the board meeting XXV Iberoamerican of sport (CID) which takes place this week in Punta del Este (Uruguay).




Free intervened to explain the proposal of the cooperation programme of Spain and the member countries of CID, emphasizing the importance of centres of high performance and Sports development centre. The presiding CSD has exposed the training seminars that are contained in the programme Interconecta-Aecid, expanding information concerning the workshops that will take place throughout the year 2019, which will be the Woman and Sport, which will create the foundations of the Ibero-American network of Reactivated Woman and Sport that on the initiative of the president of CSD and executive secretary of CID has been approved, and the seminar on Child protection, which will be in collaboration of the board of europe.




It has also attended the presentation of the programme formatiu Interconnects Spanish agency of health protection in sport and Spanish cooperation (AEPSAD), who has done the director of this body, José Luis Sand.




Throughout the day has had the opportunity to go to different seminars, presentations and conferences related to sport. One of them, has been given by the president of CID, Fernando Cáceres, and Grapples Brito, the director of the Regional office of UNESCO Sciences to Latin America and the Caribbean, which has focused on “ the importance of interministerial cooperation between sport and education in times of the Agenda 2030.




Moreover, has attended another presentation by representatives of the UNESCO on “ The role of physical education, sports and physical activity in education and learning innovation ”.




Another of acts in which Free has been present has been the debate on the “ experiences of inclusion of sport in educational policies: ideas for an inter-ministerial working within the framework of the Agenda 2030 ”, led by the education minister of Bolivia, Roberto Aguilar, the education minister Guatemala, Héctor Mejía Singing, and the undersecretary of the ministry of education and culture of Uruguay.