Objective

Strengthening knowledge and scientific production aimed at understanding the damage and vulnerabilities caused by mining activity, often exacerbated by socio-environmental disasters, is fundamental.

Furthermore, developing fair and equitable measures to prevent and mitigate environmental, territorial, social, ethnic, economic, cultural, educational, and health-related harms, as well as impacts on well-being, constitutes one of the greatest contemporary global challenges.

Beyond the physical presence of mining and its direct effects, this proposal seeks to analyze the intersectional dimensions of mineral extraction and its impact on local realities. It examines how these activities compromise social and cultural interactions across diverse fields, including health, education, communication, law, engineering, architecture, and urban planning.

The proposal addresses mining-related phenomena and their multifaceted contexts by fostering collaboration among graduate programs in the fields of health, the humanities, and applied social sciences.

This collaboration aims to consolidate broad, multidisciplinary scientific activities while strengthening a collaborative network of excellence focused on internationalization initiatives.

Active participation by institutions from Brazil’s South, Southeast, North, and Northeast regions is strategic for network-based internationalization: it expands territorial reach, reduces disparities, and enhances the impact of missions in critical regional contexts.

This engagement improves the quality of applied evidence, enables multicenter projects, and adds value to the transfer of knowledge into public policy.

In alignment with the principle of solidarity defined by CAPES, the initiative promotes cooperative academic partnerships, sharing expertise, infrastructure, and opportunities, thereby strengthening international cooperation, social impact, and advanced training led by institutions and regions that have historically been marginalized.