​LuÃs JACOB
RUTIS
President of the Board of RUTIS Network (Association of Universities of the Third Age - IPSS) since 2005. Lecturer at the Superior School of Bragança since 2005 and the Superior School of Education of Santarém from 2010. It was Technical Director of Parish Centre BES Santarém (IPSS ), responsible for valences Family Daycare, Preschool, CATL, Assisted Living, Home Care, Social Centre and Training from 1997 to 2005. Founder and Director of Senior University of Santarém, since 2001.
Nuno ABRANJA
Universidade Lusófona
PhD in Entrepreneurship in Tourism. Master's degree in Management and Development in Tourism. Founder and director of OMelhorDoTurismo.org. Consultant, business and corporate coach at several companies.
Member of the editorial guidance committee of GOGITUR-Journal of Tourism Studies. Director and professor of the Tourism Department of ISCE, and executive editor of Tourism and Hospitality International Journal.
​Raúl Valdés-Cotera
UNESCO
Senior Programme Specialist at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (LLL) and the Programme Manager of the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities. Leads research and advocacy projects such as the regional report of the current situation for Adult Education in Latin America and the Glossary for Adult Education in Latin America and the Caribbean. Editor with Mr Yang J (2011) of the Conceptual Evolution and Policy Developments in LLL. Holds a MBA and a Ph.D. in Education
Susana Oliveira
EAEA - European Association for the Education of Adults
Post-graduate in Education in Languages and Modern Literatures from the University of Lisbon. Since 2001, she is working in the field of adult education, as Coordinator in a Centre for the recognition of prior learning and managing several transnational projects in the field of education training and active citizenship. She is a board member of the European Association for the Education of Adults since 2013 and the National point of Contact for the European Centre for Women and Technology (ECWT) in Portugal.
​John BENYON
University of Leicester
John Benyon has been Professor of Political Studies at the University of Leicester since 1993 and was Director of Lifelong Learning from May 2000 until January 2008.
He has served on the Executive Committee of the Political Studies Association since 1988 and has been its Treasurer since 1992.
Professor Benyon is also Editor of the Contemporary Political Studies book series, published by Palgrave.
​Fausto AMARO
Universidade de Lisboa
Doctorate in Social Sciences (Sociology). Professor at ISCSP / Technical University of Lisbon. Director of the Center for Family Studies at ISCSP. Board Member of the CESAS - socioanthropologic Studies of AIDS Centre, NS do Bom Sucesso Foundation, Lisbon.
Several publications under thematic Family, Mental health, Learning in senior age.
José Salgado
Centro Hosp. Psiquiátrico de Lisboa
Jose Salgado, Graduate Assistant Senior in Psychiatry; 2000 To 2007 - Director of DPSM of Santarém District Hospital; 2007 -2012 - Director of the Department of Geriatric Psychiatry; Since 2013 - Clinical Director of the Psychiatric Hospital of Lisbon, created the Neuropsychiatry and Dementia Service; 16.º PADIS (Programa de Alta Direção de Instituições de Saúde) AESE (2012); Chairman of the District Council of the Medical Association of Santarém (2008-2010); Professor of Psychopathology of ES Health Santarém (1987 -2011); Faculty of Medical Sciences of Lisbon Assistant Guest; Sexual Therapist (S. P. S. C.)
Sergio Andreis
Lunaria
Sergio Andreis co-ordinates the participation in the ForAge network of the Italian partner Lunaria. He is member of the team developing Lunaria senior and intergenerational volunteering initiatives, training and action research. For its adults and senior volunteers Still active programme, Lunaria has been awarded by the European Commission in 2007 the prize as the best 2000-2006 Grundtvig project and, in 2011, the European Association for the Education of Adults Grundtvig Award for SEVEN, Senior European Volunteers Exchange Network.
Jim Soulsby
Leicester University
Jim Soulsby is an Honorary Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Lifelong Learning at the University of Leicester and the Development Coordinator for the Association for Education and Ageing.
Prior to his ‘retirement’ in 2008 Jim had been the Older and Bolder Programme Development Officer at NIACE, based in Leicester, since 1996
Maria Helena Antunes
AidLearn
Managing partner of Aidlearn. Experienced in coordination national and transnational projects. Background on economics, vocational psychology and organisational behaviour. Combines the expertise in research with practical competencies on the training and human resources management. Very experienced in the initial and continuing trainers of trainers field. Director of a Post-Graduation Course in the Vocational Training Field. Researcher in the training of trainers field. Various publications and research in the field of VET teachers and trainers.
Mariana Matache
EUROED
Since 2005 Mariana Matache has been the founder and president of Asociatia EUROED, a national NGO which specializes in Adult Education projects and Vocational Training courses in Romania. The NGO currently employs 7 people, has coordinated and implemented over 15 European projects, and offered vocational training to more than 4,000 people. Since 2013, she is member of Executive Board of the European Association for the Education of Adults, where she brings in her expertise of development and implementation of adult education in South-Eastern European countries.