On the 25th of January, a collaboration protocol was signed between the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa and the Universidad Europea Del Atlántico, with the aim of establishing an action framework for joint collaboration in activities related to specific projects in the areas of interest common ground and enhance the mutual relations of academic, scientific and cultural cooperation, as well as the exchange of professors, researchers and students, publications, academic programs and research projects between both institutions. The act was represented by Professor Doctor Reginaldo Rodrigues de Almeida, in his capacity as Vice-President of the founding entity of the Autonomous University of Lisbon and by Professor Doctor Álvaro Durantez, Director of the Chair of Institutional Relations of FUNIBER., of the Universidad Europea Del Atlantico.

The signed framework agreement advocates, among other aspects, that UNEATLANTICO, sustained by its European and international dimension with a clear Iberophone dimension — Spanish and Portuguese-speaking —, with projection throughout the multinational space of Iberophony on different continents, through the FUNIBER Chair of Ibero-American Studies and Iberophony", an academic unit of an interdisciplinary, inter-university, intercontinental and bilingual nature, created in partnership with the International Ibero-American University of Mexico (Campeche), the International Ibero-American University of Puerto Rico (Arecibo) , the International University Foundation of Colombia (Bogotá) and the International University of Cuanza (Cuito, Angola), can immediately collaborate with the Autonomous University of Lisbon, within the scope of the Chair of Ibero-American Studies, which aims to develop and promote areas of knowledge, namely through the promotion of research, development and advanced training activities a on topics of mutual interest to the institutions involved, namely, the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI) and with the Luso-Brazilian History and Culture Chair, a unit created with the purpose of to encourage the exchange of students, professors and researchers from the Department of History, Arts and Humanities and from Brazilian Institutions and Universities.