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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.

The regional Technical Community Organizations kicked off 2024 with their annual coordination meeting. Representatives of the seven organizations, including LACTLD, met on January 22-23 at Casa de Internet for Latin America and the Caribbean in Montevideo to engage in a dialogue on issues of regional impact and to conceptualize common actions.

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.

Good news for those interested in participating in the Request for Information (RFI) recently launched by RedCLARA as part of the BELLA II project: the deadline to respond to the call, which aims to identify potential existing and/or planned connectivity infrastructure projects that could have synergies with the objectives of BELLA II, has been extended to Saturday, February 3, 2024.

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.

How RedCLARA can support the international connectivity of a future advanced network in Bolivia, and what services it can offer for the benefit of Bolivian researchers were some of the topics discussed at the Forum "Bolivian Advanced Network" held on Wednesday, January 10.