During 2025, CETyS consolidated its role as a key player in digital policy through its participation in the HEMISPHERES Project—a consortium of higher education institutions in Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean—which promotes cooperation, knowledge exchange, and learning in key areas.
This project is supported by the European Union.
Notable initiatives and achievements of the HEMISPHERES Consortium
- Publication of Policy Paper: «Inverting the Brussels Effect: What the EU Can Learn from Latin America in Digital Governance»
Members of the HEMISPHERES Consortium, in collaboration with the TUM Think Tank and the Global Network of Internet & Society Centers (NoC), have published the document “Inverting the Brussels Effect: What the EU Can Learn from Latin America in Digital Governance”. This policy paper highlights the complementary strengths of both regions and argues that, together, they can pioneer a more inclusive, resilient, and rights-based digital governance. - Publication of Exploratory Policy Papers:
In this first year, the HEMISPHERES Consortium, through Working Groups focused on each of the six thematic areas—Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies and Metaverses, Internet, Platforms, Equity and Protection, Privacy and Security, and Youth and Media—has produced its first Exploratory Policy Papers. We are sharing the policy preparation documents that we have managed to consolidate in the three working groups in which CETyS has participated: - Strategic Meetings in Germany:
- HEMISPHERES Project Forum (July, Burghausen): Our representatives, Carolina Aguerre, Fernanda Martínez, and María Pilar Llorens, participated in the first in-person meeting. The debate was structured around six crucial areas: artificial intelligence, new technologies and metaverses, the Internet, platforms, equity and security, privacy and security, and youth and media.
- HEMISPHERES Workshop & Consortium Exchange (November, Munich): This strategic meeting, organized in collaboration with the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), sought to establish a shared vision, review achievements, and chart a roadmap for increasing impact on public policy and long-term growth. Carolina Aguerre presented the progress made by the Internet working group, while María Pilar Llorens shared the results of Privacy and Security, reaffirming the integration of the Latin American perspective.
- Participation in the AoIR 2025 Conference:
Carolina Aguerre participated in the 2025 Association of Internet Researchers Conference (AoIR 2025 Ruptures) in Niterói, Brazil. Her work, «Synthetic data and global finance. Narratives, (dis)continuities, and ruptures», was part of a meeting that sought to challenge the dominance of Western discourses and highlight Latin America’s pioneering role in the development of theoretical frameworks and strategies of active resistance to data colonialism.
This set of activities underlines CETyS’ commitment to transnational research, knowledge creation from the Global South, and direct influence on digital cooperation agendas between the European Union and Latin America.
