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Registration is now open for the BELIEF-II International Symposium, to be held from July 16 to July 17 in São Paulo, Brazil.

Abstracts are due by May 15.

The event will focus on the theme of "Future trends in e-Infrastructures applications: towards sustainable development."

The symposium, organized with the support of the GLOBAL project, will revolve around the questions on how existing EU–Latin American e-Infrastructure links should evolve in a way that will bring benefits to Latin American development and to the e-Infrastructure cooperation between both regions. The symposium’s discussions will shape a position paper to be sent to key stakeholders and decision makers.

The symposium will start with opening plenary speeches given by keynote representatives from the EC Delegation to Brazil, the government of the State of São Paulo and R&D sector, followed by three parallel sessions. These will address issues such as how to sustain e-Infrastructure use between connected research communities in Latin America and Europe; while specific user community areas shall be addressed such as eScience, e-Health and e-Education.

Thanks to the support of the GLOBAL consortium, remote participations are most welcome. Those who wish to give a presentation remotely via internet (as a remote site via ISABEL), should contact Juan Quemada (jquemada@dit.upm.es) of the GLOBAL consortium.

For further information on the event please visit BELIEF-II.