At the opening ceremony of RERN-Armamar 2024, representatives from GOMA (Cândida Sarabando, coordinator), the Armamar School Cluster (Joaquim Duarte, Director), the Municipality of Armamar (Cláudia Damião, Councillor for Science), and the ARMA-Sci (Raquel Branquinho, President), highlighting the collaborative effort driving this initiative, uniting institutions in a shared commitment to science democratization in rural areas.