HIGHER EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE PAN-AMAZON: THE CASE OF THE UFPA CENTER FOR ADVANCED AMAZONIAN STUDIES

ABSTRACT Higher education in the Amazon, including the highest levels of education such as stricto sensu postgraduate studies, represents an extremely important opportunity for the development of the region and its people, as it favors social mobility (WANDERLEY, 2003). It is understood that the training received by professionals in higher education has implications and reflections on their specific social and economic reality, on the demands for solutions and improvements, as well as on the possibilities that emerge from their training received in higher education with a view to acting to reduce social inequality (LUCENA; LEAL, 2020). In this sense, this work, whose results are still preliminary, given that this is an ongoing research, addresses the monitoring and analysis of the professional trajectories of graduates of the stricto sensu postgraduate studies carried out by the Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicos and their contribution to sustainable development in the Amazon and Pan-Amazon, considering the aspect of interdisciplinarity in the academic training of these graduates (PPGDSTU, 2021); UFPA (2022). Its research locus is specifically the Postgraduate Program in Sustainable Development of the Humid Tropics (PPGDSTU), which constitutes the empirical analysis framework, considering that this is a subunit belonging to the Center for Advanced Amazonian Studies (NAEA), of the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) (PPGDSTU, 2021); (UFPA, 2022).