The importance of human capital and the opting for new information technologies acquire special relevance in the EUROACE territory. It has an excellent supply of centres of higher education and a considerable number of technical and research institutes.
One of the Euroregion’s main challenges is to obtain a greater interaction between research centres and businesses. Projects like RITECA (Network of Technological Research in Extremadura-Centre-Alentejo) have been created for this purpose and they work towards exchanges between educational centres in order to increase the transfer of know-how to companies.
On a different level, the teaching of Spanish in Alentejo and Centre and the teaching of Portuguese in Extremadura has increased exponentially in the last few years, with a large number of students.