Santarém, PA – May 13–14, 2026 – The FEFACCION cooperation project (France-Brazil Action Team Fund on Climate Change and Its Impacts in the Amazon) held its closing event in the city of Santarém, Pará, bringing together researchers, students, and representatives of local communities. The initiative, coordinated by the French Embassy in Brazil, CIRAD, and IRD, aimed to strengthen adaptive capacity to climate change in the Amazon through environmental monitoring, natural resource management, and scientific exchange between the two countries.
BIOARP Results Presented at the Event
Researcher Xiomara Díaz from ISARH/Federal Rural University of the Amazon (UFRA) participated in the event, presenting the actions developed under the BIOARP I and II projects as part of “Theme 3 – Presentation of results from calls supporting FR-BR scientific initiatives in the Amazon.” Her talk highlighted the dialogue with extractivist communities along the Pará coast, scientific advances in marine sciences, and collaborative initiatives between Brazil and France focused on research in the Amazon Sea.
“The partnership with traditional communities was essential to understanding the impacts of climate change on coastal ecosystems and to building participatory monitoring strategies together,” the researcher emphasized during her presentation.
Xiomara Díaz
Student Mobility Strengthens Research Networks
The event also featured Paola Pires, a doctoral student in the Ecology Graduate Program (PPGECO-UFPA), who took part in the roundtable “Student Mobility: Experiences from Project Grantees.” Paola shared her academic mobility experience in France, emphasizing the importance of international cooperation for scientific training and for strengthening research networks between Brazil and France.
About FEFACCION
The FEFACCION project was built on four core pillars:
- Training local communities and researchers in the Amazon in the use of environmental monitoring tools and resource management techniques
- Increasing scientific cooperation between Brazil and France
- Strengthening dialogue with civil society to improve adaptation to climate change
- Encouraging local populations, especially youth, to mobilize in climate action
Live Broadcast and Recordings
The closing event was broadcast live on the FEFACCION project’s YouTube channel. Recordings are available for viewing:
