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GIGA ILAS - Cooperation
Cooperation
The ILAS's establishment in the research community
The GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) is a central junction in the
international network of the German Latin American Studies. The institute participates
in numerous research associations as an active - in some cases as a founding
- member, e.g. the German Association of Latin American Studies (ADLAF),
in the European Council of the Social Science Latin American Studies (CEISAL),
in the European Working Group for Latin American Information and Documentation
(REDIAL), the Latin
American Association of Political Sciences (ALACIP) and the European-Latin American
Net on Governability for Development (RedGob). At the LASA 2007 Congress the GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies was elected to host the Secretariat of LASA`s Europe and Latin America Section (ELAS).
The ILAS is the editor of the peer-reviewed social science Journal of Politics in Latin America (JPLA). Additionally the ILAS edits, together with the Ibero-American
Institute Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin, the peer-reviewed
journal Iberoamericana.
América Latina - España - Portugal. The project of a virtual
library on Ibero-America (CIBERA)
in co-operation with the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin and the DFG (German
Research Foundation) has entered a new funding phase in 2005. The institute
maintains tight links and labour relations with the most important researchers
and research institutions of Latin American Studies in Germany.
Cooperation Agreements
Through the signing of cooperation agreements, the GIGA has been able to build its collaboration with leading universities and think tanks and lay the foundation for formal cooperation in the areas of research and knowledge transfer.
Regarding Latin America, the GIGA concluded cooperation agreements with:
Transfer and interchange of knowledge
For a better network on a European level, the ILAS takes active part in the
European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), especially in its Standing
Group on Latin American Politics. The institute maintains tight links and labour
relations with the most important European research centres on Latin American
Studies, like the Institute for Ibero-American and Portugal Studies (Universidad
de Salamanca), the Universidad Complutense Madrid, and the Centre for Latin
American Research and Documentation (CEDLA, Amsterdam).
The director of ILAS, Prof. Dr. Detlef Nolte, is a member of the ECPR Standing
Group on Latin American Politics. Furthermore, he is a member of the board of
the Latin American Association of Political Sciences (ALACIP) as well as member
of the Selection Commission for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
for Latin American scholarship holders. Dr. Bert Hoffmann is member of the Executive Board of the Europe and Latin America Section (ELAS) of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), as well as a member of the Executive Board of the BMBF funded DesiguALdades.net research network The former institute's director, Prof.
Dr. Klaus Bodemer, is member of the expert commission of the European-Latin
American programme of university co-operation ALFA. Research fellows of the
institute regularly take part in the national and international conferences
that are relevant for Latin American Studies: ADLAF, CEISAL, Latin American
Studies Association (LASA), congress of the Spanish Association of Political
Sciences (AECPA).
Furthermore visiting researchers are regularly working at the ILAS.
The ILAS is actively involved in teaching at the University
of Hamburg especially at the course of Regional
Studies on Latin America (LaSt) and Political Sciences.
Furthermore regularly visiting
researchers work at the Institute.
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