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It was 82 participants from 19 countries, many working days, two keynote speeches, and just one conviction in the Bella Ideathon Copernicus Innovation Challenge: we can find suitable solutions for all technological, climatic, and social challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The recent history of collaboration between Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe moved a chapter forward. On 14 March in Bogotá, Colombia, the European Union-Latin America and Caribbean (EU-LAC) Digital Alliance was launched, a joint initiative that will provide a forum for regular high-level bi-regional dialogue and cooperation on digital and space topics.

An innovative Project promoted by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Córdoba, Argentina, where RedCLARA is one a founding member, has been selected to receive funding from Cyted, the Ibero-American Programme on Science and Technology for Development, for five years.

As part of the launch of the Digital Alliance between Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean, RedCLARA and the National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) signed an agreement to promote the adoption, training, deployment and promotion of the Earth Observation Strategy in the region.

More than 80 researchers, scientists, and experts within the region are participating in the BELLA Ideathon, an innovation challenge between Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean, organized by RedCLARA, GÉANT, and the NRENs of both continents. 

RedCLARA will launch the Regional Training Platform on Thursday, March 16, an initiative developed in conjunction with its member networks RNP (Brazil), CUDI (Mexico), CEDIA (Ecuador), RAU (Uruguay), and RENATA (Colombia) that aims to provide international training programs to all the members of the National Research and Education Networks (NREN) in Latin America and the Caribbean.