September 8, 2025 | 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine embassy in Sweden formalized the Philippine authorities’s dedication to help the Philippine Research Program at Stockholm College with the signing of a Donation Settlement.
Led by Ambassador Patrick Chuasoto and Birgit Tremml-Werner, affiliate professor of historical past at Stockholm College, the Donation Settlement was signed on Sept. 2 on the College’s Frescati Campus.
This system intends to open doorways for analysis, instructing and educational trade on Philippine historical past, tradition and society with the intention of deepening cultural and academic ties between the Philippines and Sweden.
In his remarks, Chuasoto stated the donation represented a “shared imaginative and prescient of creating Philippine data extra accessible to Swedish audiences.”
He additionally shared among the ongoing and deliberate initiatives of the embassy embody the Silid-Aralan sa Embahada (Classroom on the Embassy) and the interpretation from Spanish to Swedish of the critically acclaimed “Noli Me Tangere” (Contact Me Not) by nationwide hero José Rizal, which can present Swedish readers and college students a greater understanding of the Philippines’ colonial historical past and literature.
Tremml-Werner additionally supplied a lecture on the deliberate actions beneath the Philippine Research Program, which embody the attainable screening and lecture on the Philippine basic “Bona” (1980), starring Nora Aunor and directed by Lino Brocka, each Philippine Nationwide Artists.
