Historia Actual (Present History) is a historiographic field emerged as a response to efforts after World War II of bringing the present to historic studies. This approach has increased its influence in the last decades in differents european countries and United States, specially after the fall of Berlin wall and the end of the Cold War Era. Present History stands out for its innovator approach, multidisciplinar promotion and recovery of critical thinking, so for quality and profusion of the researches.

On this context of scientific changes and new social worries, the 21^st of december, 2000, in Cádiz (Spain) the Asociación de Historia Actual (AHA) was founded. The foundation of the AHA was the result of convergence of historians and social scientifics of different countries since 1990. As a precedent, the meeting Fin de siglo (End of century) was relevant and it took place in Salta (Argentina). The meeting brought together hundreds of professors and researchers compromised with the critical analysis of XX^th century. Since then, the AHA has managed to get around two hundred members from spanish and latinamerican universities and other researches groups from universities and other institutions in Europe, United States, north of Africa and East Asia.

The AHA promotes, in colaboration with other institutions, the edition of three periodic publications: the Revista de Historia Actual, anually edited in paper; the journal Historia Actual Online, quadrimestrally published, and the Boletín de la Asociación de Historia Actual, also four-month and dedicated to the promotion of members updates.

The experience of the members of the AHA in the fields of researching and scientific exchanges have focus on the analysis of valuable common, cultural and historic patrimony of the people that share the atlantic space, which results has been discussed on a series of International Seminars (the NPC) celebrated each year since 2001.

The AHA has encouraged the celebration of Posgrade and PhD courses in many universities about the cooperation to development, management of proyects, migrations, social politics and local development and because of that young graduates have been able to start researching based on the analysis of present issues. Other Seasonal Courses, Seminars and Workshops has been also part of the improvement of the different research themes of Present History.

Asociación de Historia Actual (AHA) is an international, scientific, and cultural entity. our main goals are encouragement of researching, teaching and promotion of knowledge on present human developement, from a multidisciplinary point of view, with special attention to historic, descriptive, explanatory and prospective studies of social processes at global and regional level. In order to do that, the AHA seek to facilitate scientific contact and news exchanges, ideas and iniciatives between its members, so the colaboration with related institutions. The specific goals of the AHA are the following:

1. Defense of Human Rights and education of a free, democratic and solidary citizenship.
2. Promotion of equal opportunities between men and women and the involvement of women in every ambit of politics, culture and society.
3. Implement of activities related to principles and goals of international cooperation for development.
4. Strenghtening of environmental conscience as one of the main challenges of present time.
5. Scientific research in History, Humanities and Social Sciences.
6. Specialized training of historians and social scientifics in the field of studies of Present. The fostering at all levels of educational system of contents on Present History.

Council

President: Julio Pérez Serrano

Secretary: Joaquín Piñeiro Blanca

Treasurer: José Antonio Ruiz Gil

Councilor: Carmen Morente Muñoz

Councilor: Francisco de Paula Villatoro Sánchez

Councilor: Alejandro Román Antequera