In order to remember the hundreds of thousands of Catalans who live abroad, sunday 24 April will be the International Day of Outer Catalonia 2011.
The International Day of Catalonia Outside is an initiative of the International Federation of Associations Catalan (FIEC), which groups the majority of centers, Catalan clubs and associations abroad. Casals Catalans in the meeting of the Southern Cone of America, Celebrated on 1997 in the Argentine city of Mendoza, the FIEC presented the proposal to institute this Day, which was approved by the majority of both the Catalan communities of America and those of Europe and the rest of the world. He 1998 was held for the first time.
He 4 March 1999, the Parliament of Catalonia approved a resolution declaring the Diada official. For its part, the Government of Catalonia, at the meeting of the day 6 April of the same year 1999, will adopt the agreement of official declaration of this Diada.
Since the creation of the International Day of Outer Catalonia, the FIEC publishes an annual commemorative poster. This year's is the work of Antònia Soplón, of the Catalan House of Zaragoza.
In previous editions, the commemorative poster for the International Day of Outer Catalonia has been made by the artists Ràfols Casamada (1998), Antoni Clavé (1999), Josep Guinovart (2000), Chantal Ripol (2001), Roser Capdevila (2002), Sergi Mas (2003), Maria Girona (2004), Pilar Alférez Pinós (2005), Antoni Tàpies (2006), Núria Muñoz Ginesta (2007), Carles Ballesteros (2008), Maria Andrews (2009) i Mauricio Vicente (2010).