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Leads the Foundation's Digital & Social Content Management team.
She coordinated the Digital Area and the Fronteiras XXI project, with a monthly debate program in a partnership with RTP, the national Portuguese television.
Joana Ferreira da Costa was a journalist between 1997 and 2016. She worked for 11 years at the daily newspaper «Público» writing about Science, Health Policies and Politics, having been a resident's reporter at Parliament. She then worked as a sub-editor at «Diário de Notícias» and at weekly newspaper «Sol».
She has a degree in Social and Cultural Communication from the Portuguese Catholic University.

Last update: march 2023

She is a writer, teacher, literary critic and communicator. She has worked in the dissemination of Books and Literature in the press and on television for 30 years, at dissemination events and writing workshops and tutoring.
Currently, she is editor of «Ler» magazine, she writes literary criticism in the «Sol» newspaper, coordinates and teaches a post-graduate degree in fiction writing at Universidade Lusófona, she is responsible for the communication of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos essays and portraits, part of the communication office of ULS Médio Tejo, coordinates the Dom Luis I Foundation programme of International Writing Residences and is on the Cultural Council of the Eça de Queiroz Foundation.
She is the author of the novel «This Is My Body», translated into seven languages, of the reportage book «The Last Sailors» (FFMS) and of a «Sentimental Dictionary of Adultery».

Last updated: May 2024

He has been a journalist since 1988 in the fields of the environment, science and data journalism. He is the author of the books "Sobre a Terra", an environmental guide, and "Nós no Mundo", about sustainability.

Last updated: January 2017

He has a Bachelor's degree in History and a Master’s degree in Political Science. He is a columnist at the «Expresso». He has worked at the «Público», «Diário de Notícias» and «Independente» newspapers and was editor of «Atlantico» magazine. He has written several books.

Last updated: November 2023

Professor of Mathematics at the University of Coimbra. He was Secretary of State for Higher Education between 2011 and 2013, President of the Mathematics Centre at the University of Coimbra and a member of the board of the International Linear Algebra Society. He is an associate editor for three international mathematical research journals. He has written several articles and books on mathematical research, the history of mathematics and educational policies in Portugal.

Last updated: November 2017

A political scientist with a PhD in Comparative Politics from the University of Lisbon, she studies how political institutions and citizens interact in the new digital age. Her research interests include the relationship between parliaments and citizens, political parties, political attitudes and behaviour and the quality of democracy. She is an assistant researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences and currently a FLAD visiting professor at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Her work has been published in several academic journals, such as «Policy & Internet», «Party Politics» and the «Journal of Legislative Studies».

Last updated: September 2023

Professor at ISPA-IU, in the department of Clinical and Health Psychology. She completed her degree in Clinical Psychology in 1990 and her PhD in Social Psychology in 2004, at ISCTE-IUL and the Faculty of Magisterium of the University of Bologna. She has published scientific articles in national and international journals.
She is also a psychotherapist and family and couple therapist.

Última atualização: january 2025

She has a PhD in Philosophy, with aggregation in Philosophy, specialising in Ethics, and in Nursing. She was vice-president of the National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences in the fifth mandate (2015-2020). She is a coordinating teacher and runs the nursing department at the Setúbal Polytechnic School of Health. She is on the Ethics Committee for Health at the Setúbal Hospital Centre and on the Ethics Council at the University of Minho.

Last updated: June 2020

He is Professor of European Youth Policy at the University of South Wales in the UK. He has worked at the Universities of Oxford, Cardiff and Copenhagen and has been Visiting Researcher at universities and institutes in Hong Kong, Malta, Croatia, China, France, Australia and Iran. He has published widely on youth and youth policy and worked extensively with young people. Throughout his career, he has been an advisor on youth policy issues to the Welsh and UK governments, the European Commission, the Council of Europe and the United Nations. In addition to his academic work, he ran a youth centre for 25 years. He is a trustee of Grassroots – the Cardiff City Centre Youth Project, the European Forum Alpbach Foundation and the Duke of Edinburgh's International Youth Award. Since 2002, he has been organisational secretary of RC34 – Sociology of Youth of the International Sociological Association.
He was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2002 and, in 2016, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO).

Last updated: November 2021