With the participation of Thomas Skordas, Director of the Directorate of "Digital Excellence and Scientific Infrastructure" of DG CONNECT of the European Commission, Thomas Skordas, the Vice Minister of Science, Technology and Innovations of Brazil, Sergio Freitas, and the Executive Director of RedCLARA, the connectivity of the BELLA Programme was inaugurated during the opening ceremony of the eleventh version of the TICAL Conference, and of the 5th version of the Latin American e-Science Meeting that will be developed jointly and online until September 2 of 2021.
At this week’s Leading the Digital Decade, a two-day online event focused on Europe’s digital transformation towards 2030, the BELLA Programme welcomed on the first day the inauguration of the new 6,000km EllaLink submarine cable connection that directly links Europe and Latin America.
The EllaLink submarine cable system -that is part of the BELLA Programme- that will connect Europe & South America, will be inaugurated in the framework of the “Leading the Digital Decade 1-2 June 2021” event (June 1 and 2, from 10:00 to 17:30 CET). Within the programme of the first day, in the slot that runs from 16:30 to 17:15 CET, “International Partnerships for The Digital Decade”, the leaders of GÉANT and RedCLARA will refer to the importance of BELLA.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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BELLA II receives funding from the European Union through the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI), under agreement number 438-964 with DG-INTPA, signed in December 2022. The implementation period of BELLA II is 48 months. |
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