COMUNIDAD aims at developing, testing, and implementing a framework that will make use of Copernicus data from agriculture, forestry and rural development in Chile and Colombia. It will develop solutions integrated on the COMUNIDAD platform with different sources of data. The COMUNIDAD Platform will be important base for the use of EGNSS and sharing of expertise with public and private entities from the target countries to introduce EU-space based applications and to use of Copernicus data, to develop jointly algorithms, services and products, which serve local user needs. The interaction with each Pilot Application in Chile and Colombia will feed to long-term policy strategy development, aiming at bringing about the transition into the new paradigm of sustainable agriculture and forestry growth. The combined use of EGNSS and Copernicus to develop innovative downstream applications combining positing navigation and timing with Earth observation services will be an essential part of the COMUNIDAD development through pilot applications in Chile and Colombia with the direct involvement of regional end users, decision makers and support organisations. This approach is not only demonstrating the possibilities of potential transfer of the results and addressing the potential barriers, but as well introducing the added value for developing new markets, information sharing, open access and transparency. The platform is combining existing components and services for new target regions where potential for utilization is expected. The COMUNIDAD will address 4 main Scientific Objectives via 6 WPs. The cooperation of 9 partners is envisaged, from them 5 are from Chile and Colombia and 4 from EU.

The project called Universities of Ibero-America WeavingTties with the Business Sector - Ibero4Jobs, aims to take advantage of the experience and expertise of the universities so that they transfer their methodologies of articulation with the business sector to the partner universities. The purpose is to improve the employability of their professionals, and thus; contribute to the sustainable growth of the region by complementing and strengthening the current capacities of the institutions and the actions carried to achieve the objective.In this way, the partner universities will strengthen their capacities and adopt this knowledge to develop their own strategies for connecting with the business sector to generate more employment and also to foster the entrepreneurial spirit in new professionals. Business competitiveness will be one of the results of this alliance, which will be reinforced with the participation of the associations and foundations that have joined the consortium.This project considers the implementation of a pilot program that will allow validation and feedback of the developed methodologies, which will be scaled internally within each partner HEI and in turn transferred to other HEIs in the region.The sustainability of the project will be guaranteed through the creation of an Ibero-American Professional Employment Network, an interdisciplinary and intercultural network that will include all the members of the consortium and that will integrate new universities that have the same purpose