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She has a Bachelor’s degree in Theatre-Performance, a postgraduate degree in Dramaturgy and Scriptwriting and a master’s degree in Journalism.
She won the Aldónio Gomes Prize for her work (Out of)Control in 2016.
She is a journalist at the «Mensagem de Lisboa».

Last updated: may 2025

Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal in Braga since 2006 and a researcher at the Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies.
He has a Master’s degree in Psychology – specialising in Family Psychology, from the Catholic University of Portugal School of Philosophy in Braga.
He has a PhD in Psychology from the University of Porto School of Psychology and Education Sciences.

Last updated: april 2025

He has a Bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Évora. He was Director of the Ria Formosa Natural Park and the Marshland Nature Reserve of Castro Marim and Vila Real de Santo. He has written three novels and won the LeYa prize for «The Invisible People» (April 2022). Slippery Slopes – Selected Poetry, revisiting twelve poems, is his most recent book.

Last update: january 2025

In addition to being an architect, he is also a freelance journalist.
He was an activist with the Wake Up Lisbon Movement, editor of «DIF» and «Le Cool Lisboa» and journalist for «Coimbra Coolectiva» magazine.
He took second place in the Fundação Casais/CEiiA Prize for «Journalism for Sustainability 2023», received an honourable mention in the «2023 Journalism and Local Power» Prize from the Association of Portuguese Municipalities and an honourable mention for journalism from «Associação Corações com Coroa» in 2024.
He has a Bachelor's degree in Architecture form the Coimbra School of Artistic Technology and a Master's degree in Building Rehabilitation from the University of Coimbra.

Last updated: january 2025

A journalist, he was Director of News at RTP and TVI, simultaneously editing and presenting Telejornal (RTP) and Jornal das 8 (TVI). He began his career in radio and, in 1992, was part of the team that founded the first private television station in Portugal, SIC, where he presented Jornal da Noite. He taught at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social and co-coordinated the Postgraduate Course in Journalism at ISCTE/Media Capital. At the invitation of the President of the Republic, he inaugurated the programme «Journalists in Belém Palace» in 2018.

Professor of Sociology and Sociological Practice at the University of Leicester, UK, where he worked for over 20 years at the Centre for Labor Market Studies (CLMS), including serving as Director for five years, before returning to the Sociology department (now the School of Media, Communication and Sociology). His approaches sociology as a “craft”, working from the premise that social life is best understood by examining long-term social and historical processes through the intersection of history and individual biographies. He is a member of the sociology panel of the UK Research Excellence Framework and chair of the Data, Infrastructure, Skills and Methods Advisory Group on the expert panel of the UK Economic and Social Research Council.

Last updated: November 2021

A philosopher and essayist, he first studied mathematics at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, then moved to France, where he graduated in philosophy at the Sorbonne University. After obtaining a master's degree and a doctorate in the same field, he became Coordinator of the Psychoanalysis and Philosophy department at the University of Paris VIII, while also working as a scientific translator for the OECD.
In 1976, he returned to Portugal to take up the post of assistant to the Secretary of State for Higher Education and Scientific Research. After several years of teaching in secondary schools, he was invited to teach at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He left in 2010, remaining at the university as a Lead Researcher.
He directed the publisher Relógio D'Água’s Philosophy Collection and published several articles and scientific essays in national and international magazines and encyclopaedias. His 2004 essay «The Fear of Existing» earned him a position on the French weekly «Le Nouvel Observateur’s» list of the world's 25 great thinkers. He was also awarded the P.E.N. Clube Português Essay Prize (2005) and the Vergílio Ferreira Prize (2012).

Director of the Planning and Strategy Department at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation since 2019. Previously, he coordinated and supervised projects related to health, sustainability, human development and social innovation.
With a degree in economics and law, he has also been a consultant and educator at various social intervention and entrepreneurship institutions.

Last updated: February 2024

She was born in Lisbon, where she got her Bachelor’s degree in Law, and she has worked in journalism for 25 years. She held the position of Society Editor and Lead Reporter, did film reviews and a weekly chronicle and she founded and managed the Cinema Final Cut website. She has been on the panel of judges at contests organised by ICA, which also funded three of her scripts. She made her début as a novelist with «What Matter the Fury of the Sea» (Teorema) a work that unanimously won the APE/DGLAB2013 Novel and Novella Grand Prize. Her second novel «You Can’t Live in a Cat's Eyes» (Teorema), a finalist in the Oceans Prize, won the Manuel de Boaventura Literary Prize and, again, APE/DGLAB the Novel and Novella Grand Prize 2016, thus entering the small group of Portuguese novelists to have been twice honoured. «Small Domestic Delusions» (Relógio d’Água), a collection of short stories, won the Camilo Castelo Branco/APE Short Story and Novel Award. Her latest novel «The Gesture You Make to Protect Your Head» (Relógio de Água) is a finalist candidate for the Oceans Award. She published a set of stories about war in July 2021: «Maps of Poorly Situated Places». She is the author of the cultural podcast Gross Domestic Happiness by Lisbon Municipal Council.

Last updated: February 2023