From 29 to 31 January, a delegation from RedCLARA participated in high-level meetings in Trinidad and Tobago to explore the possibilities of the future formation of a National Research and Education Network (NREN), to discuss the connectivity of the country and the Caribbean, and the possible contributions of the organization within the framework of the BELLA II project.
To explore a deeper collaboration between the different actors around the space program and the Copernicus Earth Observation Program of the European Union (EU), the EU Space Networks General Assembly was held on January 24th in Brussels, Belgium.
The BELLA II Ideathon on Innovation in Agrifood Systems in Central America and the Caribbean closed its registration period on February 2 with great success. The expectations of the registered groups were exceeded, reaching 114 participants.
The EU-LAC Digital Accelerator is launching a call to support the creation of business partnerships between a European, Latin American and Caribbean company and an innovative startup or SME from another region. The partnerships will receive acceleration services and can be created through the Matching Platform or may already exist.
Following on from 2022’s record 6.4 billion national and international authentications, eduroam has reached new heights with 7.5 billion auths in 2023 in over 100 countries.
The European Consortium for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Infrastructures, LifeWatch ERIC, represented by its CEO, Christos Arvanitidis, and the Latin American Cooperation of Advanced Networks, RedCLARA, represented by its Executive Director, Luis Eliécer Cadenas, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), for the coordination and development of cooperation activities to promote science and research in Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean.
