ERAIFT in collaboration with the Instituto Superior de Agronomia of the University of Lisbon (ISA/ULisboa), organized from 03 to 05 June 2025, the second session of the 2025 scientific week. This activity which took place in videoconference, under the co-supervision of the Director of AGRINATURA, Dr Sylvain PERRET and the Director of ERAIFT, Professor Baudouin MICHEL, and coordinated by Professor Ana Isabel FARIA RIBEIRO of ISA/ULISBOA; is part of the project “Capacity building for biodiversity practitioners, scientists and policy makers for sustainable management of protected areas and forest ecosystems in Africa - Action DCI-ENV 2020/416-397” implemented by ERAIFT, AGRINATURA-EEIG/GEIE (European Alliance on Agricultural Knowledge for Development)» and the University of Liège. This project, led by the Director of ERAIFT, Professor Baudouin MICHEL, is part of the programme entitled “Sustainable management of tropical ecosystems based on knowledge” funded by the European Union’s Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI) no. 41928. This initiative further consolidates the “science-policy” dialogue, as science must be at the service of development.
Dedicated to the promotion of systemic scientific synergy, this session offered doctoral students a valuable opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary training provided by external expert partners, on topics and tools designed to strengthen their research capacities and which could be useful for their future careers. One of the highlights was the empowerment of PhD students capacities in policy brief designing and writing, which is a document aiming to influence political decision-making, based on recommendations made from research results.
ERAIFT would like to thank the University of Lisbon through ISA for its scientific support in the successful organization of this session. ERAIFT also congratulates and thanks all the external experts for their availability and training of future African executives, and expresses its gratitude to the European Union and AGRINATURA for their financial support.
