IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
Cost: ca. USD 1.500 | covering airfare for a return ticket from Sao Paulo to Santarém, one night in Santarém hotel, 4 nights on boat,
including breakfast and dinners.
PLEASE NOTE that participants will still have to pay for their flight from abroad to Sao Paulo as usual in GNAM network weeks.
´Sustainable Leadership: the rainforest perspective´ is a learning experience where students can directly interact with part of the Amazon territory and its local actors, with the whole group and with themselves in order to learn and reflect about: (i) Sustainable Development, as a formal topic; and (ii) Sustainable Development as a key driver to more responsible and contemporary type of leadership and decision-making processes.
Based on that, the discipline objectives are:
- To present and make tangible, through experiential, collective and theoretical learning, questions that permeate the concepts of sustainable development and leadership for sustainability.
- To promote field research and reflection on development models present in the territory visited from the contact and relationship with different realities and social actors (companies, local communities, NGOs, etc.).
- To develop critical thinking that integrates perspectives on the environment, society, economy, politics, ethics and human values to decision making and leadership abilities.
Based on that, we hope that at the end of the discipline students will be able:
- To observe and identify the systemic impacts and influences of decisions / actions of public, private and nongovernmental organizations, as well as individuals, for local and global sustainability.
- To understand and revise sustainable development concepts, connecting them with other disciplines from the field of Business Administration.
- To understand the importance of articulation and dialogue in the search for convergence of interests between the different actors involved in a given context.
- To mobilize and carry out actions to incorporate sustainability into their reflections and practical actions.
- To observe and understand different perspectives of Leadership, conceptualizing what means to lead for sustainability.
Our course officially commences on June 15 at 06 am at Guarulhos Airport (GRU) in São Paulo, where we will depart for the state of Pará to embark on our journey through the Tapajós Basin. We anticipate arriving in Santarém on Monday afternoon. The return to São Paulo is scheduled for afternoon Saturday, June 20, with an expected arrival at Guarulhos Airport (GRU) in São Paulo in the evening.
Important: The flight times and airports are subject to change.
The municipalities of the Tapajós Basin in the state of Pará make up a region of natural, social, environmental and cultural heritage of humanity, combining history, tradition, rich and important political issues, which several conflicting interests. It can be said that the region is a representation of so many other Brazilian realities and their complex development scenarios as we can also see in other tropical regions of the planet.
To promote effective sustainable development learning experiences, and therefore business projects and initiatives, we need to consider local realities and perspectives. Along the route of ´SUSTAINABILITY Expedition: TAPAJÓS´, we will visit places and talk to people around the Tapajós River that include private organizations, Conservation Units, National Forests, traditional communities, non-governmental organizations and so forth.
The itinerary in Pará is organized in partnership with Ecotoré Social Environmental Services – a local agency that supports and advises companies, government bodies and third sector organizations in initiatives that seeks to build and integrate ethical relations and reconnections between society and nature.