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The team all studying at the University of Birmingham are travelling to the heart of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest and joining their Brazilian counterparts to explore sustainability.
The Immerse Amazonia initiative brings together 24 students from the UK and Brazil, including from indigenous Amazon communities, with Birmingham and Brazilian academics to discuss key global challenges through a multidisciplinary and multicultural approach.
Organised by the University of Birmingham Brazil Institute (UBBI), the two-week initiative is part of the University’s work promoting the ‘voice of youth’ ahead of November’s COP30 environmental summit in Belem, Brazil.
‘Global Cooperation’ is a key theme – particularly the importance of cooperation across cultures and disciplines to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution.
The University of Birmingham students travelling to the forest research station in Caxiuanã where selected in a University-wide competition and come from across the UK.
Megan Bancroft from Wrexham is joining Aoife Moriarty, Katy McCarthy, Lennox Stevenso, Holly Davies, Madeleine Bavister, Benika Lal and Hadil Touihri.
The students join academics in visiting and collaborating with Belém-based partner organisations, as well as Amazonian communities that live within the forest, archaeological sites, forest management, and restoration sites.
They will be using video and social media as part of the project to document their findings.
They then travel to São Paulo to join a UBBI delegation and take part in the International Conference on Global Development and Diplomacy, as well as a Global Leaders Dialogue at British Consulate with the UK Ambassador to Brazil Stephanie Jane Al-Qaq CMG.
The students will present outcomes from their work in the Amazon to the University’s student and academic community in the autumn semester.
