The Minister of Education and Sports, Evis Kushi, hosted the Director of the Cervantes Institute in Rome, Ignacio Peyro, and the Ambassador of Spain in Tirana, Alvaro Renedo Zalba, in a meeting, where the focus was on evaluating the possibility of implementing a pilot project for teaching the Spanish language in a high school.

This opportunity finds application in the multilingual policies of Albanian education and European institutions, but also supports the preference of many students who choose Spain as one of the most preferred countries within the Erasmus program.

Another issue that was discussed during the meeting was the opening of an office for the “Cervantes” Institute in Tirana, which the Spanish ambassador and the director of the Cervantes Institute assessed as important for the expansion of the Spanish language and culture.

Appreciating the importance of this institution and that of the Spanish language, Minister Kushi said that the possibility of cooperation with educational institutions that can offer the realization of this request will be seen.

Another point of this meeting was the realization of the international exams for the Spanish language. with this end in view, Kushi expressed her readiness for cooperation and support for the drafting of an agreement for this cooperation with the Cervantes Institute.

This exam has been recognized by the Ministry of Education and Sports and is currently conducted by the Faculty of Foreign Languages at the University of Tirana.

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