Prof. Isabel Menezes from University of Porto, Portugal was the Keynote speaker at the “Open Workshop Sharing good practices in the field of creative learning and bio-economy from invited and partners’ organizations” hosted by ISCA-UA, Aveiro, Portugal.
According www.cienciavitae.pt, Isabel Menezes has a degree and a PhD in Psychology and a Habilitation in Education Sciences from the University of Porto, where she is a Full Professor and a researcher and director (2020-…) of CIIE – Centre for Educational Research and Intervention. She has extensive teaching experience in Educational Research and Intervention Methodologies, Citizenship Education, Political Education and Political Psychology. She is a member of the scientific committee of the Doctoral Programme in Education Sciences (DPE-UP) and the Master’s Degree in Adult Education. She is president of the Scientific Council of FPCEUP and was a member of the Senate (2020-24) and the General Council (2009-17) of U.Porto. A founding member of the Portuguese Society of Educational Sciences (SPCE), she has chaired its board since October 2017. She has coordinated research into the civic and political participation of children, young people and adults, looking at how these experiences can play a role in empowering groups at risk of exclusion due to gender, sexual orientation, literacy, immigrant status, disability and chronic illness. She has coordinated several inter/national projects; she currently co-coordinates the Portuguese team of the Horizon SINCRONY project, which focuses on including socially disadvantaged and marginalised young people in deliberative and participatory processes. She is co-responsible for the Chair of Citizenship/Global Education of the Organisation of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI) and the CIIE, formalised in September 2022, the first Chair in this area in Portugal.