Eight days of intense work, 126 participants divided,12 working groups, 28 countries represented, 10 concept notes generated, and three winning "seeds" prepared for harvesting more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable agrifood systems in the region. Theseare the main results achieved in the second edition of the BELLA II Ideathon, which focused on the “Innovation in Agri-food Systems in Central America and the Caribbean".
Eight days of intense work, 126 participants divided,12 working groups, 28 countries represented, 10 concept notes generated, and three winning "seeds" prepared for harvesting more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable agrifood systems in the region. Theseare the main results achieved in the second edition of the BELLA II Ideathon, which focused on the “Innovation in Agri-food Systems in Central America and the Caribbean".
The Latin American and Caribbean CyberCapacities Center (LAC4) and RedCLARA, with the support of the Cybersecurity Group of the RNIEs of the region, EduLACSeg, will carry out the "Training for the Creation and Operation of CSIRTs in the academic sector", from March 11 to 14, with the aim of empowering the academic sector in the region in its fight against cyber threats
The implementation of a gender strategy is an imperative need for RedCLARA in the dynamic context of research and education in Latin America. Therefore, this Friday, March 8, the regional advanced network officially launched its institutional Gender Strategy for the coming years in the framework of the celebration of International Women's Day.
A new and efficient tool specially designed to improve knowledge and access to e-Infrastructure resources and to stimulate new collaborations in Latin America and the Caribbean is the "Ventanilla Abierta para la investigación científica en América Latina" (VAICAL), a service recently launched by RedCLARA and developed in collaboration with the National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) of the region.
"Why do we develop an Ideathon? Because we love to identify opportunities and events like this are great and special to achieve it. There is a lot of knowledge scattered in the countries of our region and our task is to integrate it for the benefit of our society." The words of Emmanuel Picado, director of Digital Agriculture of Information and Communication – IICA, at the opening session of the new BELLA II Ideathon, clearly represent the objectives and expectations of this initiative entitled "Innovation of Agrifood Systems in Central America and the Caribbean", which began on February 29th.
