Project funded by the 7th EU R&D Framework Programme (subsidy agreement number 313180)

Website 

http://www.elcira.eu

Start date

01.06.2012

Expected end date

31.05.2014

Duration

24 months

Total budget

€1, 3 million (European funding: 1 million euros)

Participants

7 organisations, 4 European (the Italian and Spanish academic networks, plus the associations of European academic networks DANTE and TERENA) and 3 Latin American (the academic networks of Brazil and Colombia, and the association of Latin American academic networks RedCLARA, which coordinates the project).

Activities

Project management and administration (WP1), coordinated actions in authorisation and authentication infrastructure between the EU and Latin America (WP2), standards for an interregional videoconference service (WP3), promotion of the eduroam service (WP4), extension and reinforcement of the collaboration platform (WP5), promotion of collaboration between European and Latin American researchers (WP6) and dissemination (WP7).