He was President of the Casa da Praia-Centro Doutor João dos Santos (2016-2020). He was an effective member of the General Council of the University of Lisbon (2015-2017). President of the FMH (January 2010 to July2014), he is currently part of the Department of Sport and Health and the Motor Behaviour Laboratory.

Physical Education Instructor by Escola de Educação Física de Lisboa (1971); Graduated in Physical Education (1975) by Instituto Nacional de Educação Física, he was a teacher at Instituto Superior de Educação Física (1976 until 1984) and is currently a teacher at Faculdade de Motricidade Humana since 1985.

He teaches the disciplines of Motor Development in the different graduation courses of Sport Sciences, the discipline of Observation of Child Development in the Licentiate in Psychomotor Rehabilitation and the discipline of Physical Education I in the Masters in the Teaching of Physical Education. He is coordinator of the Master's Degree in Child Development.

He also held several management positions at ISEF and FMH: Vice-President of the Board of Directors; President of the Pedagogical Council; President of the Scientific Council (2 mandates); President of the Assembly of Representatives (3 mandates) and President of the Laboratory of Motor Development and Adaptation and President of the Department of Motor Sciences.

He was founder of the Physical Education Society, member of several scientific journals and has published several papers in scientific journals, book chapters and has participated in several seminars, congresses and training actions on Physical Education and Sport, motor development and teaching of physical education in the first levels of schooling and children's play and development.

The main lines of research are the study of the development of motor skills and the effects of teaching situations (1); play and child development (2); life routines and mobility independence in children and young people (3) and "Bullying" in school playgrounds (recess) (4).

He was a member of the Coordinating Council of the Institute for Child Support, having participated in the creation and coordination of the Play Activity Group. He was founder and president of the International Society for Child Studies (SIEC), and is the Portuguese representative of the International Play Association (IPA).  He organised in Lisbon (1999) the "XIV IPA World Conference" (Play and Community), in 1997 the "20th International Congress" (Play and Society) of the ICCP (International Council of Children's Play) and in 2008 the 4th International Conference on Violence in School.

Between 1998-2003 he was coordinator of the Lisbon team (FMH) of the international project, "TMR Network Project - Nature and Prevention of Bullying: the causes and nature of bullying and social exclusion in schools, and ways of preventing them".

He is the author of the books "Jogo e Desenvolvimento da Criança", "Motricidade e Jogo na Infância", "Tópicos em desenvolvimento na Infância e adolescência", "Brincar em Cascais", "Bullying in Youth Sports Training: New Perspectives and Practical Strategies", "Liberem as Crianças" and "Inovar em Cascais: Active Body, Learning Brain".

Dr Carme Montserrat is deputy dean in the Faculty of Education and Psychology at the University of Girona (Spain). She is full professor at this Faculty since 2006, teaching at the degrees of Psychology and Social Education, and also at different master’s and doctoral programs. She is also the Coordinator of Liberi, research team on Childhood, Youth and Community (https://www.udg.edu/liberi) within the Research Institute on Education at the University, having previously worked in the welfare system in the city of Barcelona as well as being consultant with the Council of Europe. Her main areas of research are related to children and young people in social services and public care using quantitative and qualitative methodology. She is currently leading national and international research projects and has authored books and published many papers in prestigious journals.

Roberto Francavilla is Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Literature at the University of Genoa where besides his undergraduate studies, he teaches a PhD in Comparative Literature. Previously he was Professor at the University of Siena, where he developed research work as a grant holder of the Camões Institute and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Macau and at UNESP in São Paulo.

Editor of Igarapé - collection of studies on the Americas, co-editor of Le Tagidi, collection of Portuguese poetry, founding member of AISPEB (Associazione Italiana di Studi di Portoghesistica e Brasilianistica), of Jacaranda (Associazione di Studi Brasiliani), of CRIAR (Centro Interuniversitario sulle Americhe Romanze).

Translator of Fernando Pessoa, of which he edited in Italian The Book of Disquiet, of Clarice Lispector, João Guimarães Rosa, José Cardoso Pires, Chico Buarque, Gonçalo M. Tavares among others. He gives regular seminars on the theory and practice of literary translation.

He has written books and articles in the fields of Portuguese and Comparative Literatures, with special attention to the analysis of the relationship between literature, censorship and political power, between literature and memory, between literature and space.

As a literary critic he collaborates with the cultural supplement of the daily newspaper "Il Manifesto".

In the creative field he is the author of the projects Hotel Sodade and Papelaria Atlântica (with the photographer Filippo Romano)

Susanne Schwab is a full Professor for School Pedagogy at the University of Vienna, Center for Teacher Education and Department for Educational Science and extraordinary Professor at the North-West University in Vanderbijlpark, South-Africa. Her current research focuses on inclusive education and on learning support and learning intervention, as well as on students' achievement and social and emotional development of students from minority groups. Topics were e.g.  social participation of students with special educational needs, attitudes towards inclusive education and teacher training in inclusive education. 

Susanne studied psychology, social pedagogy and gender studies at the University of Graz, Austria. In 2015, she received her Venia Legendi (habilitation; dealing with Inclusive Education) from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Susanne is acting as associate editor of EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY - An international journal of experimental educational psychology.

She is guest editor of several special issues, e.g. “Insights in the social participation of students with special educational needs in general education” as well as “When home turns into quarantine school – new demands on students with special educational needs, their parents and teachers during COVID-19 quarantine” of the European Journal of Special Needs Education, “Assessing Behavior Difficulties in Students” of the European Journal of Psychological Assessment, “Teachers’ Attitudes and Self-Efficacy Beliefs in regard to Inclusive Education” of the Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs and “Inclusive teaching practices in heterogeneous classrooms” of the International Journal of Inclusive Education.

She is also a member of the Editorial Board of several journals like the European Journal of Special Needs Education and the Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs.