Manuela Maia
I'm a professional with over ten years of experience in Design Consultancy for small and medium-sized Portuguese companies. Develop academic activity in Design field with PhD in Socio-Economy. I'm currently in the direction of a non-profit project - TUA Cooperativa de Tecnologia Urbanidade e Antropologia - focused on providing expertise in the development of projects of Social Innovation . Our key competences focus on design and development of new ideas, predominantly in the area of education, and process management, creative process facilitators acting as promotion/mediation. We propose to work our ideias and the ideas of our partners, in the public and private sectors, building and implementing together solutions that empower people and their communities.