Funding for BELLA-T is provided by the European Union via DG-DEVCO, and by the Latin American National Research and Education Networks.

• DG-DEVCO: €8 million (RedCLARA to be Project Coordinator)
• Latin American NRENs – cash and in-kind

• To obtain Indefeasible Right of Use (IRU) of 40 optical channels on a direct submarine cable between Europe and Brazil.
• To deploy two upgradeable 100Gbps links for:
  
  • GÉANT-RedCLARA interconnection;
  • Copernicus traffic.
• To complete RedCLARA dark fibre network and deploy a 100Gbps upgradeable network from Brazil to Colombia.

MAGIC: Middleware for collaborative Applications and Global vIrtual Communities

Project evaluated and approved for a Grant by the EC in Horizon 2020
EU contribution € 1,388,972
Start: 1^st  May 2015
End: 30^th  April 2017

Building on the success of the ELCIRA project, RedCLARA -with partners from Latin America, Europe, the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, North Africa and the Middle East, Central Asia and Asia-Pacific- is leading MAGIC, a cooperation project which aims to significantly improve the ability of researchers and academics around the world to collaborate together.