Nowadays, the leadership of the Cervantes Institute is studying several growth formulas.

That is what the board has informed the directors of all the Cervantes centers in the world, who met this week in Madrid. “We still don’t know what formula we will use. In some places we will open one of our branches, and in others we will go in under the umbrella of a similar institution within the European Union, like we did in our association with the German Goethe Institut in Stockholm, which has gone very much to our satisfaction,” says Rodríguez-Ponga.

Other priorities for their expansion are still the United States and Brazil. A cherished project in the former, the opening of the Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures at Harvard University has borne fruit, resulting in a veritable radiography of the situation of the language in North America. “We should aspire to bilingualism,” states García de la Concha. The research work that has been done on the actual problems of the language during the past few years has defined much better what steps have to be taken. “We should imbue the Spanish used there with prestige and quality,” adds De la Concha.

Published in El País