The July 5, 2023
François Laurent, project coordinator (LMU) and José Daniel Gomez Lopez (UA), are visiting Ecuador from July 5 to 13, 2023. The purpose of the mission is to meet with ecuadorian partners, professors, university rectors and Amerindian communities.
The 10-day program includes:
Meeting with partner members at the Central University of Ecuador in Quito:
- a meeting with UCE direction and the UCE Faculty of Economics in Quito,
- presentation of the UCE's Arajuno program,
- a seminar on agro-ecological transition,
- a presentation of the ICOOPEB project's objectives to the entire UCE team in Quito, and an exchange on the administrative aspects of project management.
Workshops on work, carried out by Ecuadorian partners with Amazonian communities:
- an exchange on the importance of developing cooperatives in the Ecuadorian Amazon,
- a meeting with the management of IKIAM, our partner university in Tena, Amazonia
- a meeting with a representative of the Chakra indigenous community.
Meeting with the UNIANDES team in Puyo Amazonia, as well as a meeting with UNIANDES direction in Ambato
- with an update on the work progress for each work package of the project,
- a meeting with the regional authorities of Pastaza province,
- a meeting with the Ashuar and Quechua rural communities of Puyo and Arajuno.
