The guests met with the plenipotentiary representative of the rector in the countries of the Ibero-American area Natalia Karpovskaya. During the working meeting, the prospects for further cooperation between the Consulate of Spain and the SRC SFedU, issues of holding the III International Congress "National Identity through the Prism of the Dialogue of Cultures: Russia and the Ibero-American World" (SFedU jointly organizes it with the University of Cadiz), as well as deepening the ties of Southern Federal University with the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport of Spain were discussed.