This project establishes a new international research initiative that brings together scientists from the United States, Canada, and Latin America to collaborate on some of the most fundamental questions in the physical sciences. The focus is on Quantum Chromodynamics, or QCD, which explores how matter forms and evolves. Understanding how quarks and gluons create the particles that make up atoms is central to answering big-picture questions about the nature of the universe and have a broad range of interdisciplinary applications. The Inter American Network of Networks of QCD Challenges, or IANN QCD, will strengthen partnerships across the Americas and also serve as a platform for future collaboration with scientists from other regions, including Europe and Asia. The project supports coordination with major research efforts such as the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, Jefferson Lab, the future Electron Ion Collider, and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. In addition to advancing fundamental science, this initiative supports a broad educational mission. The project will provide early career researchers, including graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, with training in both core nuclear physics and widely applicable skills such as scientific computing, data analysis, machine learning, quantum information science, and accelerator science. Through international exchanges, collaborative research planning, and open educational resources, participants will gain experience wo