Politics

Journalist. He works at the production company ‘Farol de Ideias’.
He has a degree in Communication Sciences: Journalism, Consultancy and Multimedia from the University of Porto.

Last updated: january 2025

Actress and television host. She is president of the Companhia de Actores and artistic director of the Amélia Rey Colaço Municipal Theatre.
She also does voice-overs and has written and illustrated books.
She has a degree in Journalism from the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social and also completed an acting course at the Escola Profissional de Teatro de Cascais.
She won the «Bernardo Santareno» and «Porto's África» revelation actress awards, and twice the «Best Acting» award at the «48 Hour Film Project».

Last updated: January 2025

Visual artist.
The public space is where he develops his artistic work, currently centred on questioning materialist society.
He studied Painting at the Faculdade de Belas Artes in Lisbon.

Last updated: January 2025

Festival promoter.
She was communications and marketing director for «Last Tour» between 2022 and 2025. Previously, she held the same position at «MEO Kalorama», «Everything is New» and «Música no Coração».
She has a degree in Business Communication and Public Relations from the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social.

Last updated: january 2025

In a career spanning 30 years, André Carrilho has won over 100 awards and honours (below) in illustration, editorial cartoon, animation and caricature, and has shown his work in group and solo exhibitions in Portugal, Spain, Brazil, France, Czech Republic, China and USA.
His work has been published in an extended list of newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Independent on Sunday, NZZ am Sonntag, Harper's Magazine, Diário de Notícias and New Statesman.

Última atualização: january 2025

Founder and director of ‘Canal 180’, a Cannes award-winning television channel centred on culture and creativity, aimed at younger audiences and the world's creators.
He has a degree in Economics and has devoted most of his professional experience to marketing and communications. He started out in the telecoms industry as a product developer at Sonae - Optimus Telecom. Six years later he moved to the advertising agency ‘BBDO’ to specialise in brand development and marketing strategy in multiple sectors.
In 2010 he won first place in the Serralves/Unicer Creative Industries Entrepreneurship Award with the Open Source Television (OSTV) project, an original collaborative approach to developing a television channel in the increasingly fragmented digital landscape.

Last updated: January 2025

Sociologist, associate professor at Lusíada University, researcher and director of the Luísada Centre for Research in Social Work and Social Intervention (CLISSIS).
His research interests focus on families, adolescence, human sexuality and sexual and reproductive policies and rights.
He has a degree and a PhD in Sociology from ISCTE.

Last updated: January 2025

Psychologist, psychotherapist and family therapist. He is a visiting professor and researcher at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto.
His research interests include LGBT psychology, family and gender, subjects on which he has published nationally and internationally.
He has a PhD in Psychology from the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto, a BA and MA in Psychology from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra.

Last updated: january 2025

Sociologist and assistant researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais of the University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa). She is a member of the Permanent Observatory of Families and Family Policies (OFAP).
Her research is focused on new trends in family life; children and family recomposition; the legal status of stepfathers and stepmothers; family solidarity; family policies; parenthood and gender.
She is the author of several scientific articles, including: «Parenting in stepfamilies: revisiting the stepfather's role»; «Why are caring masculinities so difficult to achieve? Reflections on Men and Gender Equality in Portugal» and «The gender(ed) division of labour in Europe: patterns of practices in 18 EU countries». She is also co-author of «The White Paper Men and Gender Equality in Portugal», published in 2016.
She has a degree in Sociology and a PhD in Social Sciences, specialising in General Sociology.

Last updated: January 2025

Doctor and public health consultant.
Secretary-general of the National Alcohol and Health Forum (FNAS).
Postgraduate in Labour Medicine and Health Administration.

Last updated: january 2025