Trieste, Italy, 16 June 2022 - After rounds of discussions and extensive technical evaluation sessions, LA Referencia/RedCLARA, the Latin American Cooperation of Advanced Networks, and ASREN, the Arab States Research and Education Network, have signed an agreement within the framework fostered by COAR, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories and the LIBSENSE Initiative, for ongoing information and infrastructure sharing between the two organisations.
The event, held in Quito, was attended by the European Union (EU) Commissioner for International Associations, Jutta Urpilainen, the Minister of Telecommunications and the Information Society of Ecuador, Vianna Maino, the EU Ambassador to Ecuador, Charles-Michel Geurts, and representatives of CEDIA, the Secretariat of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, and of the University San Francisco de Quito.
The development and benefits of the BELLA Programme (Building the Europe Link to Latin America) will be presented at the 'European Development Days' (EDD), which will take place on the 21st and 22nd of June, in Brussels, Belgium, with the theme “Global Gateway: Building Sustainable Partnerships for a Connected World”.
The Latin American community research will be officially introduced to EBRAINS, a digital infrastructure that collects a wide range of data and tools for brain-related research, in a webinar to be held on June 28, at 15h GMT.
LACNIC's FRIDA Program has opened its 2022 call for proposals to provide funding to projects, initiatives, and solutions that contribute to the consolidation of a global, open, stable, and secure Internet.
The Latin American Conference on High-Performance Computing (CARLA2022) announced the opening of its call for papers and is awaiting proposals from professors, researchers, specialists and postgraduate students from around the world. The event will be held between September 26 and 30, 2022, in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
