Population

Associate Professor at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lisbon, where she coordinates the postgraduate course in demographic studies. She also coordinates the postgraduate and doctoral programmes in population sciences at the same university.
She is a social scientist whose research focuses on the economics of the family, education and social demography.
With a background in economics, she completed her bachelor's and master's degrees at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and her PhD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex (UK).

Last updated: March 2024

Dutch sociologist and geographer who has conducted extensive research into migration over the last three decades. Between 2006 and 2015, he was Co-director of the International Migration Institute (IMI) at Oxford University. He is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam (UVA), where he continues to direct the IMI. He is also Professor of Migration and Development at Maastricht University. His book «How Migration Really Works» was published in Autumn 2023 by Viking.

Last updated: March 2024

Full Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is a researcher at NOVA's Communication Institute. Her work focuses on media and journalism studies, children and the media, inclusion and digital participation.
She is Coordinator of the «EU Kids Online» project.
Previously, she was affiliated with the Communication, Information and Digital Culture Research Centre, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences and the Media and Journalism Research Centre.
She holds a degree in social communication, a master's degree in communication sciences and a PhD in journalism.

Last updated: February 2024

Psychologist specialising in political psychology and political education.
Full Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Porto.
She is a board member and Researcher at the Centre for Educational Research and Intervention at the University of Porto.

Last updated: February 2024

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

Clinical psychologist, sexologist and coach.
She works on sexual and relational empowerment as a means of empowering women.

CEO of Movimento Transformers, a Porto-based working to stimulate civic and social participation. It works with children and young people at risk of social exclusion and, more recently, with senior citizens in the Reformers project.

She is a Professor at the Association for the Integrated Development of Matosinhos, which promotes disadvantaged groups’ socio-economic integration.

Last updated: October 2023

Chairman of the DST Group, based in Braga, which works in engineering, construction, waste management and recovery, water, renewable energy management and real estate. The group's mission is to develop sustainable business projects that add value to the community.
DST's annual training plan includes classes in philosophy, rhetoric and art history for all employees during working hours. It also maintains partnerships with vocational schools, through which it has created higher vocational-technical courses, master's degrees and doctorates exclusively for its employees.

Last updated: October 2023

American psychologist and author of three New York Times bestsellers. «Untangled, Under Pressure» and «The Emotional Lives of Teenagers» have been translated into 23 languages. She co-hosts the podcast «Ask Lisa» and collaborates with UNICEF.
A senior advisor to the Schubert Center for Child Studies at Case Western Reserve University, she has written several articles and books on education and child development. She lectures in schools, organisations and business groups around the world on child and adolescent development, family mental health and adult well-being.
She graduated from Yale University and worked at the Yale Child Study Center before receiving her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Michigan.


Last updated: December 2023