Associated lecturer in Psychology in the Educacion and Psycology School of the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP) and coordinator of the masters of Social Applied Gerontology in the Philosophy and Social Sciences School, UCP.

Mr. Angel Yagüe Criado has a degree in Sociology and studied Sociology of Education at the doctorate level at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has a Master's Degree in Human Resource Management from CEF Business School (Madrid).

From 1997 to 2016 he was working as a project and training manager at the Institute of Training and Social Research (linked to the trade union UGT, Madrid). From 2016 to 2021 took the role of Project Manager at the Association Edad Dorada Mensajeros de la Paz, he has coordinated two relevant Erasmus+ project (KA2) in the field of long-term care: New-Care, professional of reference to implement a Centred-person approach in LTC facilities, and AppForDem. Educational app for caregivers of people with dementia.

In 2019 he became full member of the Counsel of Administration of the AGE Platform Europe. Since 2021, he has been working as a Project Manager at the Spanish Confederation of Older People Association (CEOMA, Madrid). In 2022 he is coordinating the CamDem project “Raising awareness of volunteers on Dementia-friendly cities”. From 2022 to 2025, Angel Yagüe will take the role of coordinator in the project “Age-Friendly toolkit”, aimed at creating a set of open educational resources for age-friendly cities in European countries. https://ceoma.org/

Gerontóloga, Formadora e Consultora na área do Envelhecimento. Membro da Direção da Associação Nacional de Gerontólogos

• Licenciatura em Educação pela Universidade do Minho
• Especialização em Animação Educativa e Desenvolvimento Pessoal e Social
• Pós Graduação em Neuropsicologia, Inteligências Múltiplas e Mindfullness em Educação de Jovens e Adultos  
• Master Internacional em Psicogerontologia
• Master em Direção Técnica e Serviços de Organizações Sociais 
• Formação em Snoezelen
• Formação em Cuidados Humanizados

• Diretora Geral da IPSS Centro Social Paroquial de Sobreposta
• Diretora Geral do SensorialMente _ Cuidados Integrados
• Co - autora CogniSense
• Co - organizadora da iniciativa "Envelhecer...e Depois?"

Blogues

• ao longo da vida
• dan.i.ela

Licenciatura em Gerontologia pela Escola Superior de Saúde do Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Pós-graduação em Cuidados Paliativos e Fim de Vida pelo Instituto Politécnico de Viseu e Mestrado em Psicogerontologia pela Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto.

Exerço funções de gerontóloga e diretora técnica numa empresa de apoio domiciliário desde 2013. Formadora de diversos cursos relacionados com saúde e envelhecimento.

Áreas de interesse: Envelhecimento no domicilio; Respostas Sociais para idosos; Envelhecimento Ativo

PhD in Sociology, Isabel Dias is associated teacher at Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (Oporto). She is a researcher at Institute of Sociology, and coordinator of the work area "Family, Gender and Ageing". 

Integrated Researcher at the Lusíada Research Center on Social Work and Social Intervention.

Juliana Louceiro é técnica superior de educação e está atualmente a terminar o Mestrado em Psicologia das Organizações na Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra. Na SHINE 2Europe desenvolve trabalho ligado à gestão de projetos e investigação, estando envolvida em vários projetos relacionados com envelhecimento e construção de espaços e comunidades mais adaptadas a todas as idades. Na conferência dará a conhecer alguns dos resultados já alcançados, bem como os próximos passos, em projetos ligados a este tema.

From December 2016 to July 2020 coordinator of Campania Region Division for Health Innovation.

She has been involved in more than ten projects focusing on the digital transformation of health and care, including mHealth Hub, Vigour and HS-Monitor. She is currently national referent for the Cost Action CA19136 - International Interdisciplinary Network on Smart Healthy Age-friendly Environments, where she also serves as scientific communication manager.

Since May 2015 she has been coordinator of A3 of the Action Group on Prevention of Frailty and Functional Decline of the European Partnership on Active and Healthy Aging, also serving as a Promoter for the group. Since 2013 she has been coordinating Campania Reference Site for lifecourse Active and Healthy Ageing, awarded 4 stars in 2022.

Manuel Caldas de Almeida, graduated in Medicine from NOVA Medical School - Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Lisboa and has competence in Health Services Management and in Geriatrics, both granted by the Portuguese Medical Association. He was consultant for general practice and is currently the director of Hospital do Mar - Luz Saúde Group and professor of Geriatrics at NOVA Medical School - Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Lisboa. He is also responsible for the Geriatrics and intermediate care Department of the Misericórdias Saúde Group, a member of the National Council of the Union of Portuguese Misericórdias; he is responsible for all the activities focused on the elderly and the dementia process. He is a member of the Ministry of Health Group with responsibility for the Dementia Plan, a member of the Ageing study group at NOVA Medical School - Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Lisboa and a member of the Scientific Council of the Portuguese Geriatrics Society.

Born in Portugal, 1940, M. V. Cabral was a political exile in France from 1963 to the 1974 democratic revolution and is currently a Senior Researcher at the Social Sciences Institute, University of Lisbon. He was the Director of Portugal’s National Library from 1985 to 1990 and Vice-Rector of the University of Lisbon since 1998 till May 2002. He was the chairman of the Academic Board of his Institute for several years and is currently the Chairman of the Governing Board as well as a member of the Statutory Commission of the Lisbon University.

Licencié-ès-Lettres (1968) and Docteur en Histoire (Sorbonne, Paris, 1979), he was a Research Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford (1976-79) and held the chair of Portuguese History at King’s College, London (1992-95); he also visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Fall 1986), the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales-Paris (Spring 1990) and the Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro-Brazil (Spring 2003). Professor Cabral has published extensively on contemporary Portuguese history and society, and he is a regular contributor to the mainstream media. He is currently running several big projects in the sociology of professions and health.

He has in print a book with Vera Borges on Architecture as vocation and as profession (in Portuguese) based on a survey of Portuguese architects; his latest individual book is Health and Illness in Portugal. A survey of Portuguese social attitudes and patterns of behaviour  (in Portuguese, 2002). Other recent collective books also based on survey data (in Portuguese) are Social inequalities and perceptions of justice (including his introduction and a chapter on “The perceptions of social and economic inequalities in Portugal in comparative perspective”, 2003); Religion and Bioethics (including his chapter on ‘Church attendance and social attitudes in Portugal in comparative perspective’, 2001); Work and Citizenship (including his chapter on ‘The exercise of political citizenship in Portugal’, 2000), and Portuguese Youth of Today (including his chapter on ‘Social identities and political attitudes of Portuguese young people’, 1998), as well as an individual book of essays on Political Citizenship and Social Fairness (1997). His latest publications in English are “Trust, mobilization, and political representation in Portugal”, in A. Freire et al. (editors), Portugal at the polls in 2002, Lexington Books: Lanham, pp. 201-223; and “The Political Economy of the Portuguese Labour Market”, in N. Bermeo (editor), Unemployment in Southern Europe: coping with the consequences (London: Frank Cass & Co., 2000).