Education

Participating teacher in the book "More diaries from a classroom".

Last updated: November 2023

He was born in Porto in 1982. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Coimbra and a Master's degree in Psychology from the University of Porto. He has a PhD in Digital Media (UT Austin | Portugal) from the University of Porto. He has taken part in several projects on the educational integration of digital media. He has published works on the subjects of digital media and science teaching in a number of national and international forums and journals.

He is a visiting assistant professor at the University of Porto School of Economics and a researcher at CIPES. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Porto. His research focuses on Philosophy and Economics, History of Economic Thought and Economics of Education.

Last updated: November 2023

He has a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Porto School of Economics. He has carried out research in the areas of Economic Growth and the Economic and Non-Economic Benefits of Education.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Minho, researcher at NIPE and CIPES. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Vrij University of Amsterdam/Tinbergen Institute in the Netherlands. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Economics of Education and Spatial Economics, particularly in the student decision-making process.

Last updated: December 2022

Pro-Rector of the University of Lisbon.

She was a Público journalist for about 20 years. She wrote the novel «Terrinhas», which received the Agustina Bessa-Luís Revelation Award in 2021. She has written three non-fiction books, which are on the National Reading Plan: «Crazy things», «Your Father’s Name is not Sergeant» and «Daddy, Were You Afraid?»
She was among the finalists of the Gabriel Garcia Marquez Journalism Prize twice (2015 and 2016). She received the King of Spain International Prize for Journalism in 2015, the Gazeta Multimedia Prize (2014), the AMI-Journalism Award against Indifference (2015) and the Orlando Gonçalves Literary Prize (2016).

Last updated: January 2024

She has a PhD in Educational Sciences, specialising in Analysis and Organisation of Teaching, from the University of Coimbra. She is the general coordinator of the Education Initiative, a project designed to promote the success of young people by supporting exemplary projects with a potential multiplier effect on the education system.
Between 2015 and 2019, she coordinated the studies team at the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation, where, between 2010 and 2015, she was project and content manager in the areas of education, science and economics.

Last update: january 2023

Full professor at Nova School of Business and Economics. He obtained his PhD in 2005 from the University of Warwick.
He is currently co-director of the Nova School of Business and Economics Public Policy Institute, director of the Economics for Policy Knowledge Centre and a member of the Economics of Education Knowledge Centre at Nova School of Business and Economics.
He is also chair of the scientific council of the Association of Entrepreneurs for Social Inclusion and an external evaluator for the Education Initiative.
He is currently working on a study on «Vocational Education, Higher Education and the Labour Market: An Analysis of Cross-Referenced Individual Data» for PLANAPP — Centre for Planning and Evaluation of Public Policies — and the Foundation for Science and Education.
He has published various articles in international academic journals in the fields of labour economics and the economics of education.

Last updated: July 2025

She has a degree in psychology from the University of Lisbon's FPCE, studied film studies at Lisbon's ESTC, worked for RTP and, as a director for SIC, attended a BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) course in TV Production.
She was a director for SIC from 1992 to 2002. Between 2002 and 2003 she completed the Advanced Programme in Political Journalism at the Institute of Political Studies of the Catholic University of Lisbon. From 2004 to 2008, she was a documentaries advisor to RTP's Programme Direction. In March 2018, she unanimously received her PhD in contemporary history, specialising in empires, colonialism and post-colonialism, earning a distinction and praise for her work. In 2007, she was awarded the Lusophony Grand Prize for the documentary «The Prodigious Writer», a film about the life of Jorge de Sena, which she wrote and directed. In 2018 she was awarded the Fernando de Sousa prize by the European Commission for her work directing and co-authoring the screenplay for the 6-film documentary series Europa 30, shown on RTP2. In 2021 she premiered the documentary «Visions of Empire» at the DocLisboa festival, which she also directed and wrote.

last update: January 2023