Dear all, Science in Brazil has been under budget cuts for years. These cuts have compromised both scientific production and the formation of new researchers. More than 25 years ago, an innovative experience was created in Brazil focused on providing intensive training to young ecology researchers. This experience was named Ecology of Amazon Forest (EAF) Field Course. Unlike a common course, the EAF's classroom is the Amazon rainforest and the young researchers spend 30 days immersed in different regions of the forest training and doing scientific research in practice - all with the supervision of experient researchers from several Brazilian and foreign institutions. Most students, many of whom are well-known researchers in educational and research institutions nowadays, have reported that this course has beenextremely important for their careers. Every year, 20 students were selected to participate in the course, all of them spend 30 days receiving training without paying no fees (to avoid elitization in science and training). Therefore, the execution of EAF depends on the receipt of funding. This funding usually comes from Brazilian government agencies (such as CAPES), but with the current economical crisis, most of them do not have enough funding to provide financial support. Me and the other organizers were thinking about cancelling the course. However, we also think that letting a course of more than 25 years dies at such a time would be a tremendous loss for all who have been a part of it and for the future generations of students who still want to participate. So we decided to open up a crowdfunding campaign in an attempt to make sure that the Ecology of Amazon Forest Field Course can be offered again. In this sense, I ask you to participate and share this campaing. Below I present the link to the crowdfunding campaign and also a link explaining how people from outside Brazil can contribute.
Campaign https://www.kickante.com.br/campanhas/ecologia-da-floresta-amazonica Tutorial: how to contribute from abroad https://www.kickante.com.br/bau-de-ideias/como-funciona-crowdfunding/how-to-contribute-from-abroad All the best, Paulo Enrique Cardoso Peixoto Prof. Adjunto Laboratório de Seleção Sexual e Interações Agonísticas - LaSexia Depto. de Biologia Geral - ICB Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Av. Antônio Carlos, 6627 Belo Horizonte - MG / CEP 31270-901 Caixa Postal 486 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paulo_Enrique_Peixoto?ev=hdr_xprf http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4127-625X
