The focus is on people.
AKILAH is the strategic network powered by Nia Hub connecting talent and applied knowledge around the twin transition.
Its focus is on people: those who think, build, and cooperate in the face of today's complex challenges.
AKILAH
A strategic scientific network powered by Nia Hub.
Major challenges call for collective intelligence.
Connecting talent and applied knowledge around the twin transition.
— What AKILAH is
A scientific community oriented toward practice.
AKILAH brings together people from diverse backgrounds with intellectual rigor, public commitment, and the drive to turn knowledge into real impact.
It is a space where applied research, expert knowledge, and qualified collaboration meet.
— Why it exists
No single discipline solves it all alone.
The main challenges of our time cut across sectors, territories, and fields of knowledge.
AKILAH brings together people who, together, formulate better questions, produce more robust answers, and expand the capacity to act in the face of complexity.
— Who can join
Excellence, repertoire, and a willingness to build.
AKILAH is for people with relevant trajectory or recognized potential in applied science, innovation, technology, public policy, territorial development, and new economies.
The network combines intellectual depth, diversity of experience, and real capacity to collaborate.
Women, Black people, traditional peoples, and historically under-represented profiles are especially welcome. AKILAH is committed to expanding voices and capacities.
— Forms of participation
Different ways to contribute.
01
Fellows
Continuous engagement on Nia Hub and Knowledge Center strategic agendas.
02
Technical Residencies
Temporary immersions oriented by concrete challenges, with applied output.
03
Visiting Researchers
Specific collaborations, mentoring, seminars, and thematic cycles.
Extended Community — participation in open calls, gatherings, and selected initiatives.
— Principles
How we choose to build.
Intellectual rigorWith practical usefulness.
DiversityAs collective intelligence.
CooperationAbove silos.
Public commitmentKnowledge oriented to real transformation.
KnowledgeOriented to legacy.
Global SouthBrazil and the Global South as real contexts of research and implementation.
— Next cycles
Under construction from the start.
AKILAH begins forming in 2026, connected to Nia Hub's strategic agendas and the Knowledge Center's research lines.
The next cycles include inaugural invitations, thematic calls, collaborative residencies, and networked applied output.
Strong networks begin with the right people.
AKILAH is born to connect those who can broaden futures.
