Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna joined the ELAN network (European network of services and innovation for European and Latin American companies), a program funded by the European Union (EU) Latin America. The ELAN network, coordinated by TECNALIA, aims to bring together the main European and Latin American players in research and innovation sector, in order to facilitate the exchange of knowledge processes and socio-economic development, as well as to accompany innovative SMEs in their efforts to transfer technology to new geographical markets.

The network organized a series of events in Latin America, differentiated by thematic sectors in order to cover the entire cycle of technological business opportunities  The School coordinated the participation of SMEs and research groups in these events from the regional and national context.