SOLAR-ICT is an initiative that aims to highlight the opportunities and potentialities for European and Latin American research collaboration in ICT, identifying common development goals and deeper strategic cooperation.
Usually, efforts for strategic cooperation with the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region are focused on the countries with larger economies like Brazil, Argentina, Chile or Mexico. However other countries with smaller economies still denote important and interesting openings for joint Euro-Latin American development policies in ICT. Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, among LAC economies and compared to the larger aforementioned countries, present unique developments potentialities in ICT.
The focus on these six targeted countries will provide different views of economic environments in different stages of ICT development that will help uncover the diverse opportunities that can enhance research and development cooperation between EU and the LAC region.