The CIDOB Foundation plans to bring together experts in the study of Central Asia and neighbouring countries in order to create a common research agenda on this region which, though little-known in Spain, possesses an enormous importance for the energy supply of the major powers and international security, featuring elements of rivalry and cooperation, and risk and opportunity. Within the framework of the Central Asia Observatory that has been jointly created by Casa Àsia and the Elcano Royal Institute, the CIDOB Foundation will be hosting this space for encounter in which participants can carry out a regular analysis of the internal political processes, dynamics of regional cooperation and the insertion of Central Asia into the international context of Eurasia, as well as Europe and Spain's relations with the region.