User awareness is key to take full advantage of the new possibilities opened by BELLA-T. During the course of the project, BELLA-T will organise 3 user-centered workshops where the focus will be on the application side. The first one will be carried out within the context of the TICAL2017 Conference: The Latinamerican e-Science Meeting.

Speakers in these workshops will be researchers and PHD students who will show how the network can be used to advance research and education in their discipline, in order to emphasize the network benefits for the end users and boost user engagement.

The best use cases gathered through the Application Workshops will be fully documented and disseminated widely.

For the first time since its inception TICAL has shared its program and headquarters with another event: the 1st Latin American e-Science Meeting, organized by the BELLA-T Project. The initiative sought to offer a new space for the exchange of knowledge and good practices in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in research work, aiming to contribute to the improvement and optimization of the management and work of the scientific communities in the region.