The Faculty and the Observatory have signed a collaboration agreement with the Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles this past week. The Dean, Josep Maria Carbonell, Deputy Dean of Research and International Relations, Míriam Díez, and Professor Cyril Hovorun, director of the North American institute, met in Bologna in the context of the European Academy of Religion to seal the agreement. The agreement opens the door to closer academic collaboration between both institutions in the field of research and the exchanges of both professors and students.