Partner Universities

Luciana Londero Brandli (Ph.D) is a Professor at the University of Passo Fundo, Brazil. Her work focuses on sustainability in higher education, the Agenda 2030, Climate Change, Education for Sustainability and Sustainable Cities. She is Deputy Editor of the Encyclopedias of Sustainability in Higher Education and of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. She serves on the editorial board of various journals, supervises a number of master's and doctoral students on engineering, environment and sustainability issues and has in excess of 300 publications. She is the co-investigator in Brazil for the Transforming Universities for a Changing Climate research project.

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Amanda Lange Salvia is a Research Associate of the project Transforming Universities for a Changing Climate at the University of Passo Fundo, Brazil. Her doctorate focuses on energy sustainability at universities and current interests include the Sustainable Development Goals, the role of universities towards sustainability and the impacts of climate change. She is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education and Deputy Editor of the Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Janaina Mazutti is an Environmental Engineer and Researcher of Transforming Universities for a Changing Climate research project at the University of Passo Fundo, Brazil. Her current studies focus on strategies for Climate Change Adaptation adopted by smart cities and how they contribute to achieving the SDGs 11 and 13. Her interests include the Sustainable Development Goals, Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainable and Smart cities.

Giovana Reginatto is a Civil Engineer and Researcher of Transforming Universities for a Changing Climate research project at the University of Passo Fundo, Brazil. Her interests include the Sustainable Development Goals, sustainability at universities and climate change.

Tercio Ambrizzi is Full Professor at the Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences, at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. He is currently the General Coordinator of INCLINE (Interdisciplinary Climate Investigation Centre at USP and Superintendent of Environmental Management at USP.  Prof. Ambrizzi has a PhD in Meteorology from the University of Reading, UK, and his research focuses on Dynamic Meteorology, Climate Change and Regional climate modelling.    Prof. Ambrizzi is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and he has published over 100 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, and over 20 book chapters.  He has also supervised dozens of Masters and Doctoral students, and postdoctoral researchers.

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Amanda Rehbein is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences, at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. She is working with the INCLINE (Interdisciplinary Climate Investigation Centre at USP), GrEC (Group of Climate Studies at USP), and the SAAG (South America Affinity Group at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA). Her research focuses on Dynamic Meteorology, Climate Change, and Cloud Resolving Modelling. She also has an interest in understanding how Universities are facing climate change and preparing societies for a warming climate. In the Climate-U project, she helps to coordinate the PAR activities at the USP. 

Salomão Antônio Mufarrej Hage (PhD) is a Professor at the Institute of Educational Sciences at the Federal University of Pará and at the Graduate Program in Education and in Languages and Knowledge of the Amazon Program.  He is also a CNPq Productivity Scholarship holder. He coordinates the Study and Research Group on Rural Education in the Amazon, and the Paraense Forum on Rural Education.  His studies guide education in the multi-territorialities of the Amazon, concerning its diverse organisations, movements and identities – ribeirinhos, fishermen, peasants, indigenous, quilombolas and extractivists.

Maria de Nazaré Cunha de Araújo is a lawyer and a specialist in financial and budgetary administration through the Getúlio Vargas Foundation as well as in the rights of children and adolescents through the Federal University of Pará. She is involved in the development of projects focused on rural education and is a member of the Study and Research Group on Rural Education in the Amazon.

Celso Alexandre de Araújo Ribeiro is a graduate of Biomedical Sciences through the Federal University of Pará and has a degree in Music through the Carlos Gomes State Institute. He is a specialist in Special Education and Socio-educational Inclusion through the Federal Rural University of the Amazon. He is a member of the Study and Research Group on Rural Education in the Amazon and of the Rural Education Forum of Pará.

Edir Augusto Dias Pereira holds a PhD and master's degree in Geography through the Fluminense Federal University and a bachelor's degree in Geography through the Federal University of Pará. He is currently an adjunct professor at the Federal University of Pará (Campus of Tocantins / Cametá). He has experience in the area of geography with an emphasis on Human and Amazonic geography, focusing mainly on the following themes: territoriality, education of the countryside, waters and forests, resistance and riverine identity. He was director of the Faculty of Education (2015-2016) and of the Faculty of Geography (2018-2020) of the Tocantins / Cametá campus. He is a riverine of quilombola origin and a full-time poet.

Oscar Ferreira Barros is a pedagogue, MA and PhD in Education. He is professor of the teacher's degree in Rural Education and Specialisation in Pedagogical Practices in Rural Education linked to the Cametá Campus at the Federal University of Pará. He works in the training of teachers in multigrade schools for the “Escola da Terra” Programme in the Pará Amazon. He is part of the Pará Countryside Education Forum and the coordinator of the countryside, waters and forests education forum of the Low Tocantins. Oscar is a member of the Participatory Action Research group for Climate-U.

Marcos Vinicius Costa Lima holds a PhD in Geography through the Fluminense Federal University. He works in the territorial planning research area, focusing on questions about racism against indigenous peoples. He has been a researcher at the New Social Cartography of the Amazon Project since 2007; a volunteer at the "Escola da Terra", and a collaborating researcher across various academic study groups at the Federal University of Pará. He works as a researcher and teacher in the following areas of knowledge: management and planning of a conservation unit for sustainable use, Indigenous territories/lands, social cartography (situational), geoprocessing, territorial and identity conflicts involving Indigenous nations and quilombolas, Afro-religious communities, trans-identity peoples and collectives, network of rural/urban social movements, decolonial pedagogies, Indigenous school education and advice on the construction of free, informed and prior consent consultation protocols.

Waldirene dos Santos Castro has a degree in Pedagogy through the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Pará. She is a specialist in African and Afro-Brazilian Knowledge in the Amazon and has participated in the “Earth, Waters and Forest School of the Pará Amazon" programme. She is currently the coordinator of education for ethnic-racial relations at the Department of Education of the Municipality of Moju-PA and a teacher in the municipality of Moju. Raised in a quilombola community, she has experience in the field of quilombola education, with an emphasis on teaching-learning education in the countryside and an emphasis on the struggle of traditional peoples of the waters and the forest. She is part of the Knowledge and Educational Practices of quilombola Populations research group and Coordinator of the EDUQ do Quilombo research area.

Guiomar Correa Tavares is a black quilombola woman, resident of the quilombola Community São Sebastião in Moju, community leader, and family farmer. She completed high school with a technical course in agriculture.

Hueliton Pereira Azevedo holds a Bachelor's degree in Agronomy from the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Pará (Campus Castanhal). He served as a fellow and volunteer at the Center for Studies and Education in Agroecology in the Amazon. In 2013, he was a monitor of Agroecology where he carried out teaching activities for undergraduate students in agronomy and integrated high school. In 2014, he received a scholarship from the International Institute of Education of Brazil, working in community forest management actions. He holds a master's degree in Family Agriculture and Sustainable Development from the Federal University of Pará, where he carried out research on agroecological transition in Amazonian agroecosystems. Throughout his academic training, the organization of Amazonian agroecosystems was the main topic he was involved with. After his master's degree, he was an advisor for the Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, where he researched the process of institutionalisation of public policies for agroecology in Brazil. He is currently studying for a doctorate in Agroecosystems at the Federal University of Santa Catarina.

Hellen do Socorro de Araújo Silva hold a PhD in Education through the Federal University of Pará in Education, Culture and Society, as well as an MA in Education through the State University of Pará in Teacher Training. She is ann adjunct professor at the Federal University of Pará, Faculty of Rural Education (Tocantins / Cametá campus). She is a permanent professor of the graduate programme in Education and Culture (Policies and Societies) at the Tocantins University Campus in Cametá. She has experience as a teacher and coordinator of Basic Education, with an emphasis on the modalities of early childhood education, elementary education and youth and adult education. She is vice-leader of the study group on rural education, agroecology and solidarity economy and of the study and research group on rural education in the Amazon. Hellen is a member of the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Education. She is a researcher at the Universitas-Br Network and develops research on rural education, educational policies, teacher training, educational practices, social movements and rural higher education.

Romier da Paixão Sousa holds a degree in Agronomy through the Federal Rural University of the Amazon, a master's degree in Amazonian Agriculture from the Federal University of Pará, a saster's degree in Agroecology with a focus on rural development from the International University of Andalucia, and a PhD in Environmental Studies from the Pablo de Olavide University. Romier has developed several training, research and technological extension activities with rural Amazonian communities and has publications related to the themes of Agroecology, Community Forest Management and Professional Education in the countryside. He is currently a member of the Studies in Education and Agroecology in the Amazon research group and a member of the"Cooperatismo, Desarrollo Rural y Emprendimientos Solidarios en la Unión Europea y Latinoamérica" international research group. In addition, he is the Vice President of the Brazilian Association of Agroecology and a member of the working group on political agroecology of the Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales. He has experience in agronomy with emphasis on rural development, working mainly on the following topics: family farming, agroecology, rural extension, professional education, rural education, and the Amazon more broadly.

José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra is a full Professor at the Graduate program in Management and Environmental Sciences at Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (Unisul, Brazil). He is the Director and Founder of the Centre for Sustainable Development (Greens, Unisul) and Principal-Investigator (PI) of BRIDGE - Building Resilience In a Dynamic Global Economy: Complexity across scales in the Brazilian Food-Water-Energy Nexus, funded by FAPESC and RCUK, through Newton Fund.  He is an Honorary Citizen of Florianópolis, a title awarded by the Florianópolis City Council and Citizen of Santa Catarina, a title awarded by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Santa Catarina.

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