The Bioamazonia Network, Fundación Avina, and WTT – World Transforming Technologies announced this week, during COP30, a strategic partnership to enhance scientific and technological cooperation across the Pan-Amazon region.
A mission-oriented Pan-Amazon research agenda
The partnership aims to build and strengthen a common Pan-Amazon research agenda oriented by missions, aligning priorities and capacities of the Network’s institutes and driving solutions to the social, economic, and environmental challenges affecting the biome.
Inspired by the Humboldt Institute’s pioneering model
The initiative is inspired by the pioneering experience of Colombia’s Humboldt Institute, a regional and international reference in mission-oriented science. The Institute shows how collaborative research agendas can transform scientific knowledge into concrete action, linking public policy, communities, and technological innovation.
“The Humboldt Institute has shown that mission-oriented research can generate relevant and applicable scientific responses, integrating science, territory, and society. This experience is now being expanded on a Pan-Amazon scale with the involvement of the other institutes of the Bioamazonia Network.”
A transboundary scientific network
The Bioamazonia Network brings together members from 8 countries and national research institutes from 5 countries, committed to a transboundary, interdisciplinary, and intercultural science — a science made for, with, and by the Amazon.
Avina and WTT: innovation, collaboration, and impact
Fundación Avina, with more than 30 years of work across the Global South, is known for driving systemic transformations. WTT, its innovation arm, is a reference in impact technologies and mission-oriented methodologies.
Collective construction for the future of the Amazon
Together, the institutions aim to promote the sustainable use of Amazon biodiversity, strengthen the bioeconomy, and expand the participation of women, Indigenous peoples, and traditional communities in all stages of the process.
A milestone for Pan-Amazon scientific cooperation
This alliance marks a significant step forward for regional scientific collaboration — transforming science into practical action, innovation, and hope for the Amazon biome.
