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For two days the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is the scenery of the event that gathers the main actors of the projects developed in the e-Infrastructure field and that includes in its agenda the presentation of successful experiences and opportunities for collaboration.

Conferences, presentations and a roundtable are part of the program that for two days  articulates the Conference on Europe – Latin America e-Infrastructures held on October 17th and 18th 2011, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The objective of the meeting is to exchange common experiences, and state the needs for the future developments of e-infrastructures commonly developed by Latin America and Europe in view of the Eighth Framework Programme that will be shortly launched by the European Community and of Joint Research Programmes being discussed between EC and Latin American Countries.

The conference, that takes place in the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), brings together the key people of the projects co-funded by the European Commission, representatives of funding institutions in Latin America, and researchers from many fields that are -or will become- predominant users of the e-Infrastructures in Latin America.

The agenda of the first day of activities includes the following presentations:

• Virgilio Almeida (to be confirmed), National Secretary for Informatics Policy, Brazil
  “Perspectives in Latin America – Europe cooperation”
• Konstantinos Glinos, EC e-Infrastructures
  “European e-Infrastructures Programme”
• Alejandro Ceccatto, Secretary of Scientific and Technological Articulation- Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation
  “e-Infrastructures in Latin America”
• José Miguel Aguilera (to be confirmed), President of CONICYT, Chile
  “Chile’s Long Term Commitment to Astronomy”
• Florencio Utreras, RedCLARA Executive Director
  “ALICE2 and RedCLARA”.

In addition, the schedule contemplates the presentation of joint initiatives for research and innovation between Europe and Latin America that have been supported by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission (FP7) such as ELLA, AugerAccess, EVALSO, OpenBio, AMERICAS, GISELA, FIBRE and e-VLBI.

During the second day of the meeting the program will incorporate topics such as High performance Computing and Cloud Computing, Climatology, Disaster Management, Bioinformatics, Structural Engineering, e-Health initiatives, Biodiversity, Tropical Diseases y Performing Arts, and will a roundtable on Perspectives in Cooperation Projects.

The registration form and the detail program are available in the following link: http://www.redclara.net/indico/evento/50

About EVALSO
The project Enabling Virtual Access to Latin-America Southern Observatories – EVALSO, aims to enable Virtual Access to Latin-America Southern Observatories. World-class experimental facilities are often placed in remote sites which makes the exploitation of these facilities socially and economically difficult. European research community depends on these facilities to maintain its role and in this light networking technologies can play a significant role.

For more information about the Project, visit: http://www.evalso.eu/evalso