Carina Dantas

She has a degree in Economics and a Master's in Management from the University of Coimbra. Since 2019, she coordinates the FITEC project at the Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN), which is a strategic action aimed at transferring innovation and technology from IPN to companies, improving IPN R&D capacity, to creating value and incorporating technology into the processes productive activities of companies. She supports IPN units doing internal and external networking building new consortiums and promoting funding opportunities. Between 2015 and 2019 she was a project manager at Cáritas de Coimbra, being involved in the execution and implementation of national and international projects and initiatives, and its communication activities, on the active and healthy ageing field, with expertise on validation of usability technologies by end-users. At the same time, she was the contact person for financial and administrative issues for European projects, collaborating also on the organization of events - member of the organizing committee of the AAL Forum 2018 and 2019 and member of the panel of judges of the SilverEco Ageing Well and International Awards. She is often a speaker / moderator / participant in several conferences, seminars, related workshops, participating also in the production of scientific articles. Between 2014 and 2015 she was a guest lecturer in Introduction to Microeconomics at Instituto Superior Miguel Torga in Coimbra.