EPI Partners and Collaborators

EPI Fourth Phase

Pantanal Research Center is launched in Cuiabá -  Pantanal has just received one more instituion dedicated to environmental preservation, on July 21st, in Cuiabá, Mato Grosso. Representatives of various public and private institutions are involved in the creation of the Pantanal Research Center (CPP, Centro de Pesquisas do Pantanal),  an entity that wiill function in the same mode of a Non-Governmental Organization. [more]

CPP and CES sign cooperation agreement  

September 3, 2002 -  The Pantanal Research Center (CPP), represented by its Executive Secretary, Dr. Paulo Teixeira de Sousa Jr., and the Florida Center for Environmental Studies (CES), signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote experiences exchange and research cooperation between the Pantanal and the Everglades.  Also, the MOU establishes the basis for institutional support for the Everglades Pantanal Initiative, promoted until then by CES.

 

EPI Third Phase

After Dialogue 4, EPI has entered a new phase. Some of EPI members have decided the agenda for 2002. [Click here to know more]

CATHALAC has offered the new South America Office, in Brasília, to be also EPI's office. This is a major step for EPI, given that Brasilia is a decion making node, where professionals from both Everglades and Pantanal will have a minimum infra-structure to work whenever is necessary and opportune. You are welcome.

UCDB and USF are the Eco-Brazil and Eco-Florida Programs leaders, joined by advices from The Students Conservation Association (SCA). Other universities are welcome to join the Program, encouraging their students to participate in this pleasant educational opportunity for future decision makers.

RECOVER has given strong support to EPI in the sense that it is necessary to compare similar ecosystems to monitor the progress of Everglades Restoration Plan.

Also some private business have join EPI, interested in the approach PPP Private Public Partnership. Some of them are HydroEnvironment Co - Florida, Ecotech Consultants, Inc - Florida, N&T Japan Tour - Campo Grande e Galetur - Cuiabá.

 

EPI Second Phase

 

International cooperative projects between Everglades and Pantanal professionals became a reality, sponsored by international agencies and/or national agencies in all countries involved in the Initiative. Other means of fundraising will be developed over time. Among the effort to build cooperative projects, there are:

  • Ducks Unlimited: GIS Program for Pantanal (Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay), guided by GIS experts provided by Ducks Unlimited.
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  • USF- University of South Florida and UCDB- Universidade Católica Dom Bosco: Eco-Brazil 2001 was the first attempt towards an Academic Exchange Program.
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  • CES, (EPI Executive Secretariat 2000-2001), has organized and directed the I Annual EPI Meeting, side by side with the head of Pantanal Program, a Brazilian Ministery of Environment Program to Pantanal Region, sponsored among others by IDB.

  • UFMT and United Nations University have stablished CPP - Pantanal Research Center. EPI intends to support this Center as a focal point for research and other academic matters.
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Ecotrópica, both State of MT and State of MS Governments, CIDEMA, other NGOs and institutions have done lots for EPI. Each one of us, who consider EPI a good instrument toward the development of opportunities for projects, research and other activities among professionals from both ecosystems, is encouraged to promote, to explain what EPI is and to bring to light opportunities to implement our common goals of preserving Pantanal and restoring Everglades.
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Other partners have join EPI in both sides. This means that the discussion list has more subscribers, that more institutions are monitoring opportunities to submit international cooperative projects for funding.

It is important to register the effort among Brazilian and American universities to submite a proposal to CAPES/FIPSE in April 2001. Leaders of this effort were Pierre Girard (UFMT), who identified the opportunity, Len Berry and Pete Scarlatos, who provided information and strategy to develop a cooperative Master Program among students from all universities willing to participate in the Consortium proposed by CAPES/FIPSE; Alberto J. Palombo and Maria do Carmo Zinato, who wrote, translated, organized documents to submit, in Florida, while Pierre Girard were doing the same in Brazil. These are the universities who were involved in this proposal:

 

EPI First Phase

EPI is growing. Since its inception in February 2000, we have agreements and memoranda of collaboration to participate. Participation in this moment is basically the presence in events and meetings in order to build EPI. They are so far:

  • Florida Center for Environmental Studies - CES
  • Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária - EMBRAPA/CPAP
  • Fundação Ecotrópica - ECOTROPICA
  • Universidade Católica Dom Bosco - UCDB
  • Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso - UFMT
  • Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture - IICA
  • South Florida Water Management District - SFWMD
  • U.S. National Park Service - Everglades National Park - ENP


The following institutions have also collaborated with EPI, and some of them are in process of signing agreements or carrying out cooperation projects:

Updated: May 18, 2002
 
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