Maria Inês Pinho did her master’s and doctoral thesis in the area of Cultural Management and Strategic Cultural Entrepreneurship. Between 2000-2003 she was coordinator of the Degree in Heritage Management at the School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (ESE-IPP) and between 2006-2018 she was coordinator of the International Relations Office of the same School. In this sense, she has research contacts in most European countries, including Russia and England. Similarly, she has worked with colleagues from countries outside Europe, namely Brazil, Colombia, Canada, Botswana and Australia. She has participated and published in proceedings of several national and international academic conferences as a presenter. She has also been a reviewer of papers. She also has international publications, either in book chapters or journal articles. Between 2012-2015, she participated in the PAEDEIA project of the Erasmus Life Long Learning (Erasmus LLP) program of the European Union for Induction issues; between 2017-2020 she participated in the Ukids project of the Erasmus+ program for Entrepreneurship in Education issues. He is currently leader of the Portuguese partner IPP-ESE of the E4TLI project of the Erasmus + 2021-27 KA220 program, in the areas of literacy in Higher Education for new technologies and the project “Applied Learning of Robotics And Fused Reality In Early Childhood Education of the Erasmus + 2021-27 KA131 program for the issues of robotics and computational thinking. In the post-pandemic, she developed applications to the Erasmus+ 2021-2027 program for technologies in Cultural Education and SMART Cities. Currently, she is also responsible for several UC’s in the area of Cultural Management, Cultural Policies, Research Methodologies and is the Internship Coordinator of the Degree in Cultural Heritage Management, in addition to belonging to the Coordination committee of this degree.
