In order to get far... you must be near

Abstract

Calderón de La Barca wrote that life is a dream, and that dreams are just dreams. But no, dreams can become true; you only need to have a wish and fight for it; it is just a matter of faith and strength, alliances and loyalties, collaboration, energy; it has to do with building roads, with learning to get back on our feet no matter how many times we fall flat on our faces. Over the years in which the ALICE (Latin America Interconnected with Europe) project was developed we learned this lesson. This, together with the strong collaboration commitment in pursuit of the great dream of establishing a Latin American Advanced Academic Network enabling regional unity for the development of science, education, research and innovation as well as paving our way towards developed countries, starting with those in Europe, was what led us to make that great dream come true: our RedCLARA.