New alliance for a regenerative Latin America

The Club of Rome has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI) to drive knowledge and action on regeneration in Latin America. 

Mariano Jabonero, Secretary-General of the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI), and Silvia Zimmermann, Co-President of The Club of Rome, led the signing of this regional strategic alliance in Buenos Aires, consolidating the first initiative of The Club of Rome Latin American Network. 

Buenos Aires, October 15th, 2026 — In an institutional milestone for the region, the Secretary-General of the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI), Mr. Mariano Jabonero, and the Co-President of The Club of Rome International, Silvia Zimmermann, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and a Specific Work Agreement.

This agreement is aims at driving a transformative socio-ecological agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean, framed within the process of strengthening and expanding The Club of Rome Latin American Network. The initiative builds upon the cooperation protocol signed during the International Conference "Thought and Action: The Path to Regeneration," held in April 2026 in Buenos Aires.

Beyond Latin America, the partnership reflects The Club of Rome's wider strategy to strengthen its presence and impact across continents. The aim is to move beyond a global-first approach and build up at every scale: local, national and continental. The Club of Rome Latin American Network is the first of these continental initiatives. Led by Co-President Silvia Zimmermann, it gives members and partners a space to shape the organisation's global agenda from a Latin American perspective. Similar possibilities are now being explored in Africa. Strategic partnerships rooted in each region, such as this one with the Organization of Ibero-American States, are central to this approach.

• 

• 

The signing was also attended by Luis María Scasso, Director and Permanent Representative of the OEI in Argentina; Gonzalo del Castillo, Executive Director of the Argentine Chapter of the Club of Rome; Belén Bertero, Applied Research Coordinator at the Argentine Chapter of the Club of Rome; and Diego Badaloni Giner, Member of the Board of Directors of the Argentine Chapter of the Club of Rome, who accompanied the authorities during the meeting. 

A cutting-edge regional project 

The signing of the agreement lays the groundwork for implementing the regional project "Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Regeneration: Building a Knowledge Infrastructure for Regeneration in Latin America (2026–2028)". 

The central objective of the project is to advance the development of a regional knowledge infrastructure for the socio-environmental regenerative transition in Latin America and the Caribbean by diagnosing capabilities, mobilising a multi-stakeholder network, and designing evidence-based decision-support tools. 

The project will operate under the direction of the Ibero-American Observatory of Science, Technology and Society (OCTS) of the OEI and the Secretariat of The Club of Rome Latin American Network, both based in Argentina. 

The joint signing between the OEI and The Club of Rome represents a fundamental step toward strengthening Latin America's own sovereign scientific-technological capabilities, seeking to reinforce the region's role as a leading engine for systems thinking and regenerative action.