Sociologist and founding member of CES and member of URBiNAT’s Scientific Commission. 

Retired Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Uni. of Coimbra. Visiting professor at several foreign Universities;

Main researcher and PI  in several national / international research projects dealing with active social policies, social exclusion and poverty, employment and unemployment experiences and strategies;

Since 2008 is coordinating  the Research Group on Solidarity Economy (ECOSOL/CES);

Research interests: rural studies, social policies, sociology of medicine, poverty and social exclusion.

Associated professor, Department of Political Economy, the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa – ISCTE and member of URBiNAT Scientific Commission. 

• PhD from the Université des Sciences Sociales II of Grenoble 
• Coordinator of Economy  and globalization from Centre for International Studies
• Teaches Development and Social and Solidarity Economy. President of the Scientific Council and founding partner of the Centre for Studies for Solidarity Economy of the Atlantic (Ponta Delgada). Director of the Review of Solidarity Economy. 
• Founder of RedPes – Portuguese Network of Solidarity Economy. 

Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, taking part in the Research Group on Democracy, Citizenship and Law (DECIDe) and member of URBiNAT’s Scientific Commission.

• PhD in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2004) and a Master’s Degree from the same institution (1999), having had an academic career as an assistant professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ/Brazil).
• Co-coordinate the Research Group on Democracy, Citizenship and Law and member of the staff in the PhD Programme. 
• Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Southern Bahia (Brazil), being part of its Doctoral Programme’s staff. 
• Current research interests are feminist economics, feminist aesthetics, postcolonial feminisms, postcolonial studies on consumption and Economics, poverty and social inequalities from an intersectional perspective, European identities and the Otherness. 

• Economist and a researcher at the Collaborative Laboratory for Work, Employment and Social Protection (CoLABOR) and at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) of Coimbra University. 
• As an assistant professor at the Economics Department of ISCTE in Lisbon he has taught and researched among other subjects on the History and Philosophy of Political Economy.
• His present main research interests include personal and collective deliberation, institutional economics and the history of economics. 

President of RIES (Italian Solidarity Economy Network) and co-founder of Solidarius Italia (solidarius.it), 

• Background in communication and media (Princeton University, USA and a Master’s degree from the University of Florence)
• General delegate of RIPESS EU – Solidarity Economy Europe and former coordinator of the international board of directors of RIPESS, 
• Active member of the International Council of the World Social Forum and promoter of the World Social Forum on Transformative Economies. 
• Former director of Unimondo, the Italian centre of Oneworld.net – an international portal on global rights – and worked for the Fondazione Finanza Etica and the annual Terra Futura event;
• Promotes projects of CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), mutualism (in MAG Florence) and the Forum Firenze Beni Comuni (Florence Commons forum).

Universidad de Extremadura

Sociologist, Social Worker and professor at the University of Extremadura and member of URBiNAT’s Scientific Commission.

– Technician in Local Community Development projects linked to the Social and Solidarity Economy;

– PhD in Sociology from Complutense University of Madrid from a doctoral dissertation about strategies of Local Development in vulnerable rural environments through community savings, participation and social currencies, a comparative study case of Spain and South Africa;

– Member of the NGO BioRegional Economics (EBR) and of the Social Currency Institute (IMS) for the promotion of dynamisation processes that foster social and complementary currencies.

–  Member of the core group in the ESCUTA project (Erasmus +) to promote the Social and Solidarity Economy through the participation of the university students, as well as two social currencies, one for the Island of São Miguel (Azores-Portugal) and another one in Cáceres region (Extremadura -Spain).

PhD in Political Science from the Scuola Normale di Pisa (Italy). 

• Currently, he is a senior researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, at the University of Coimbra (Portugal).
• His work examines the role of socioeconomic and political institutions on the development and performance of social and solidarity economy organizations.

URBiNAT Project manager at Porto Municipality

• Biologist with an MSc in Conservation Biology and an MBA;
• Specialised in the management of projects related to the recovery of urban ecosystems (mainly related to urban water bodies) with science and nature-based approaches, implementation of circular economy strategies related to plastics reduction and sustainable procurement in the municipality;
• Interest in the implementation of innovative and sustainable projects with a systemic and integrated view, encompassing social, economic and environmental dimensions, and involving different actors from all sorts of backgrounds.