3^rd IDEAL IJL Plenary Meeting

Where to meet: Auditório das superintêndencias: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ciLKp1ao6U9XjtHm6

Day 1 – 17/09/2026

8:30 – 9:00 (BR) | 13:30 – 14:00 (FR) : Welcome / registration

9:00 – 10:30 (BR) | 14:00 – 15:30 (FR) : Opening Session

Rafael Raimundo – Welcome speech (5 min.)
Marcus Paranã Potiguara (Potiguara indigenous leader) – Opening speech : Art, Territory, Science and Transformation (20 min.)
Valéria Romano – LMI IDEAL overview: governance, members, projects (10 min.)
Pedro Estrela – LMI IDEAL opportunities: Projects, collaborations, funding, mobility, training (10 min.)
Joris Guérin – Annual meeting program, objectives, and 2026-2027 planning (10 min.)
Round of short presentations of IDEAL members (3 min./person).

10:30 – 11:00 (BR) | 15:30 – 16:00 (FR) : Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00 (BR) | 16:00 – 17:00 (FR) : Institutionalization

Anielson Barbosa da Silva – Vice-Rector for Planning at UFPB: LMI Ideal Internationalization, co-supervision and agreements (20 min.)
Carolina Soccio – Support from the French Consulate General (20 min.)
Julie Cavignac – How to improve the French-Brazilian scientific policy in the Northeast? (20 min.)

12:00 – 13:30 (BR) | 17:00 – 18:30 (FR) : Lunch (Not covered by LMI; transportation to Restaurant Coelho’s will be organized)

13:30 – 15:00 (BR) | 18:30 – 20:00 (FR) : Scientific presentations: Open science

Guilherme Ataíde (UFPB) – DATAPB 360°: From the Sustainability of the Repository to Expansion Opportunities (30 min.)
Stéphane Debard (Espace-Dev, IRD) – Observe, Understand, Model: Data Terra, THEIA & DINAMIS in the Service of Environmental Sciences (30 min.)
Juliana Dalboni Rocha (UnB, INCT ODISSEIA) – State of the Art of Research in the Amazon, Caatinga, and Cerrado Biomes (30 min.)

15:00 – 15:30 (BR) | 20:00 – 20:30 (FR) : Coffee break

15:30 – 17:30 (BR) | 20:30 – 22:30 (FR) : Participatory workshops on Interdisciplinarity

8:00 – 8:30 (BR) | 13:00 – 13:30 (FR) : Welcome / registration

8:30 – 10:30 (BR) | 14:00 – 15:30 (FR) : Scientific presentations: Pathways to Coviability

Leticia Freitas & Fajr Fradi (FUNCEME) – Overlapping projects and Hydrosolidarity networks (30 min.)
Joaquim Bruno (UFRN) – Restoration of the Caatinga to Ensure Ecosystem Services: History of BEF-BrazilDry and the Future of Pollinator Monitoring (30 min.)
Pedro Estrela (UFPB) – Synergies and Conflicts Between Biodiversity and Biofuels (30 min.)
Luiz Coelho (CEAR – UFPB) – Circular bioeconomy of the Brazilian sugar-energy industry: Regional impacts and sustainable practices in energy generation (30 min.)

10:30 – 11:00 (BR) | 15:30 – 16:00 (FR) : Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00 (BR) | 16:00 – 17:00 (FR) : Scientific presentations: Research as Partnership

Lucilene Bandeira (UFPB) – From research protagonists to business protagonists: the outcomes of the Potiguara action-research (30 min.)
Julie Cavignac (UFRN) – Trees that Tell History and Provide Sustenance: The Example of the Quilombola Community of Sibaúma, RN (30 min.)

12:00 – 13:30 (BR) | 17:00 – 18:30 (FR) : Lunch (Not covered by LMI; transportation to Restaurant Coelho’s will be organized)

13:30 – 15:30 (BR) | 18:30 – 20:30 (FR) : Discussion regarding IDEAL organization

15:30 – 16:00 (BR) | 20:30 – 21:00 (FR) : Coffee break

16:00 – 17:00 (BR) | 21:00 – 22:00 (FR) : Synthesis and Closing

Collective discussion: how can LMI researchers relate respectfully and non-extractively with the knowledge systems of partner communities?
Next steps: coordination with the 5th Indigenous Culture Festival and with the meetings of the Potiguara Chiefs’ Association
Finalization and next steps for the 2026-2027 work plan

06:00 – 7:30 (BR) : Departure from João Pessoa

08:00 – 15:30 (BR) : Seed collection and visit to the Curica project