With high-impact environmental technology proposals, three teams claimed the top spots in the hackathon “Tracing the Source: Satellite Innovation in Identifying Pollutant Sources in the Motagua River Basin,” an initiative organized by Academia Copernicus Guatemala, driven by RedCLARA and the BELLA II project, and supported by the European Union’s Earth observation program Copernicus, Guatemala’s National Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation (SENACYT), and Universidad del Valle de Guatemala.
In a landmark step to strengthen science, education, and innovation in Latin America, the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Peru (MTC) has announced its collaboration with the BELLA II project—an initiative led by RedCLARA and co-financed by the European Union—that will link the country regionally and with Europe via a high-capacity fiber-optic network.
The Latin American Cooperation of Advanced Networks invites strategic stakeholders from the telecommunications, digital infrastructure, and financing sectors to participate in the BELLA II project's Competitive Dialogue process for the BELLA II project, which aims to provide long-term connectivity to the RedCLARA infrastructure to Peru, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, seeking to consolidate a robust digital ecosystem between Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe.
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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