who we are

IASP-AISP arose on Thursday, October 19, 2023 during the XX Congress of the Spanish Association of Health and Social Security, when several representatives of the Association, the Peruvian Association of Social Security, the University Research Institute of Latin American Studies, and the European Institute of Industrial Relations, met to address the growing global interconnection of people and the difficulties of connecting the national social protection provided by the various countries, and of knowing the level of protection that each person can expect from each of them. For the participants in the meeting, the lack of reciprocal knowledge and the many shortcomings detected by studies such as those of the ILO on Social Protection, lead to a basic lack of protection even where some kind of protection exists but is not known.

At that meeting on October 19, 2023, it was agreed to form a promoter commission and present the initiative to the AESSS assembly the following day, which approved it unanimously. In the days that followed, a notable effort was made to inform similar organizations in other countries, resulting in the immediate joining of organizations in India, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, and the activation of efforts to unite already existing organizations of the same type, such as the one in the United States, and to create others of the same type, such as Portugal.

Organizational efforts also led immediately to the creation of a web page and the formalization of the necessary elements for its subsequent registration and headquarters, which is located in the city of Seville, Spain, as the historic seat of the communication links between two continents, Europe and America.

During those same initial days, contact was made with the presidents of high-level organizations whose activity runs in parallel with the IASP-AISP project. With the presidency of the ISLSSL (International Society for Labor Law and Social Security, ILO) in the person of the elected president Dr. Jean Michel Servais, and with the Ibero-American Association of Social Security, in the person of its president, Dr. Gina Magnolia Riaño Barón, to whom we explained our converging interests and our intention not to interfere in any of the existing associations that bear the acronym of Labor Law and Social Security. In the case of the ISLSSL, there was even an offer to set up a special section on Social Security in its Congresses for the discussion of insurance problems, an offer that will have to be discussed as soon as the necessary reflection is available.

The process of birth and organization has a terminal date, December 20, 2023, the day on which the foundational elements will be voted and formal and substantive aspects will be decided, especially the composition of the board of directors and the presidency and the positions of the executive. From that moment on, events and timing will determine the activities to be launched, although the organizational process will continue and it is planned to use the Internet connection means for periodic meetings, as well as the related scientific journals to publish the resulting works.