  Gravitationally lensed quasars are valuable, but extremely rare, probes of
observational cosmology and extragalactic astrophysics. Progress in these
fields has been limited just by the paucity of systems with good ancillary
data. Here we present a first spectroscopic confirmation of lenses discovered
in the Southern Sky from the DES and KiDS-DR3 footprints. % optical ground
based surveys in the Southern Hemisphere. We have targeted 7 high-graded
candidates, selected with new techniques, with NTT-EFOSC2, and confirmed 5 of
them. We provide source spectroscopic redshifts, image separations, $gri$
photometry and first lens model parameters. The success rate of ~70% confirms
our forecasts, based on the comparison between the number of candidate doubles
and quadruplets in our searches over a ~5000 sq.deg footprint and theoretical
predictions.
