Camões, IP, in collaboration with the American Councils for International Education, based in Washington DC, United States of America, established a partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen the study and teaching of Portuguese language and culture in the United States and support access to foreign language education in a comprehensive way. This partnership will directly promote the National Examinations in Foreign Languages (NEWL – National Examinations in World Languages), along with a series of assessments in these languages, including Portuguese.