This course was held on the 9th and 10th of September 2015, in the Bacaba Park, New Xavantina, Mato Grosso, in Brazil with the main objective to train future partners of The Amazon Forest Inventory Network (RAINFOR) in the demarcation of permanent plots. The course was coordinated by Prof. Beatriz Schwantes Marimon and taught by team members of the Plant Ecology Lab at UNEMAT-NX (Fernando Elias, Paul Morandi and Bianca de Oliveira).