The CSLM has been integrated into a space organised by ICEX Spain Export and Investment. It currently offers Spanish courses to more than 20 North American universities and centres.

The University of Cadiz has participated, through its Centro Superior de Lenguas Modernas (CSLM), in the 2024 Annual Convention and World Languages Expo, organised by ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) in Pennsylvania (Philadelphia-USA). The purpose of this association is to improve and expand the teaching and learning of all languages at all levels of instruction.

The international conference, one of the most important in the United States in its sector, brings together language teachers, coordinators, administrators and managers of academic programmes and professionals from the publishing world related to language teaching and learning, with the aim of providing a comprehensive professional development experience with an impact for language educators in all areas of teaching, in which Spanish occupies a privileged place. In the United States there is a Spanish-speaking population of almost 42 million speakers and more than eight million students of Spanish at all levels of education.

The CSLM was represented by the General Director of Language Policy of the UCA, Jesús Bolaño, and the coordinators of the centre, María Fernández and Arkaitz Errazkin. The UCA stand was part of a space organised by ICEX Spain Export and Investment. Currently, the Centro Superior de Lenguas Modernas offers Spanish courses to more than 20 North American universities and teaching centres. Specifically, the University of Cadiz has received 413 enrolments from this country this year.

This event, which is one of the main North American showcases for the academic offer of Spanish courses, is attended annually by around 6,000 teachers and professionals in this field.

The CSLM has achieved the proposed objectives of consolidating and reinforcing some of the existing agreements and attracting new academic programmes for students and teaching staff in training. Meetings were held with the coordinators of universities that work with the centre, such as Villanova University and Penn State University (Pennsylvania), Valdosta State University (Georgia), Monmouth University (New Jersey) and The University of Southern Mississippi (Mississippi).

The University of Cádiz has also worked on the creation of new agreements with different universities and higher education centres and has held other institutional meetings. Specifically, with the president and other directors of ACTFL and the Department of Education of the Spanish embassy in Washington, with whose collaboration it organises a summer programme of methodological updating for teachers of Spanish which is held annually at the University of Cadiz.