The NILAS network, through University of Copenhagen, have been granted 42 999 €, for Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS) exploratory workshop call. The title of the project is, “New Approaches and Synergies in Nordic Latin-American Studies: Applying Area Studies in a Multipolar World”. The members of the network are Latin American oriented scholars from the Center for Latin American Studies at Copenhagen University, the Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies at Stockholm University, the UiO Centre for Development and Environment, University of Oslo, the Department of Cultures at University of Helsinki, and the School of Global Studies at the University of Gothenburg