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A group of personalities, representing various regions of the interior, of different age groups and interests, who meet every six months to think and act on the interior.
PhD in Cultural Science, Master in History of Populations, Postgraduate in Tourism and Religious Heritage, Postgraduate in Cultural Management. Degree in European Studies.
He is President of the Board of Directors of the Côa Parque Foundation and a professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, since September 2001, at the Higher School of Communication, Administration and Tourism, in the Master's degree in Tourism Marketing and the Bachelor's degree in Tourism.
She is also a researcher at the Centre for Research, Development and Innovation in Tourism (CITUR). She is a member of the National Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (CNCTI).
He was a Tour Guide for the Côa Valley between 1996 and 2001. He has published several articles in scientific journals specializing in the area of heritage enhancement and cultural tourism.
She is 22 years old and is from Guarda. Due to her academic and professional ambitions, at the age of 17 she left her hometown and moved to Vila Real, where she lived for 4 years, and which reminded her of “home” as she considered it a welcoming place. In this city, she graduated in Genetics and Biotechnology and is currently in the final year of a Masters in Clinical Laboratory Biology.
Professional needs forced her to move to another city, this time to one of the major cities, Porto. During her academic career, she had the opportunity to get to know the world of associations, through her participation in student groups, such as the Genetics and Biotechnology Student Group (ADNGB) and the Environmental Study and Protection Group (NEPA), which, together with some Erasmus+ projects in which she had the opportunity to participate, inspired her to be more involved and to believe that an initiative could make all the difference.
Thus, with the founding of Guarda a Terra – Youth Association, with other young people, he believes that his hometown and the interior could become places of interest for young people and families.
Portuguese writer born in 1979. He has a bachelor's and master's degree in both art and psychology. He has published seven books of poetry, the best known being “A Axila de Egon Schiele” (Porto Editora, 2020).
Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology of the University of Beira Interior (UBI) and researcher at CIES-IUL (Center for Research and Studies in Sociology). Her research interests include mobility studies; transport and inequalities; gender, citizenship and art; work and organizations. Her PhD analyzed Portuguese metropolitan areas using the mobility paradigm.
She is currently particularly interested in the relationship between rural and cross-border mobilities and local development and in the interactions between art, movement and mobilities, with an intersectional focus.
He was born on December 25, 1991 in Chaves and his interest in culture and arts appeared very early.
With a degree in Digital Game Design, he was one of the creators of the Egas Project, under the guidance of Daniel Ribas, a video game that featured the participation of Portuguese writers and poets such as Afonso Cruz, Carlos Vaz, Nuno Camarneiro, Nuno Guimarães, Paulo Kellerman, Pedro Guilherme-Moreira and Raquel Ochoa. For two years he wrote for the magazine PUSHSTART as a video game critic. He attended the Master's degree in Multimedia with a specialization in Culture and Arts at the University of Porto.
He was a member of the Porto-based multimedia art collective "Cubic Resonance", led by Rui Penha and with participation in festivals such as Semibreve and Future Places. In 2014, he received a public recognition award from the Chaves Academy of Arts for “Versatility and Artistic Dedication” to the institution. He was Creative Director of the "Festival Identidades" from 2013 to 2016.
Since 2014, he has been president and co-founder of the independent cultural production company INDIEROR, with productions in the areas of music, theater, exhibitions, cinema and multimedia art throughout the country and with a greater focus on the Transmontana region.
With INDIEROR, it has also produced events such as the "N2 Festival" or the "Flavors of Chaves" event, as well as regular programming at the Auditorium of the Chaves Cultural Center, which brought renowned international artists to the city of Chaves. In 2018, the work with the association was distinguished as one of the "Reasons to Be Happy" with the world by musician David Byrne in his project "Reasons to Be Cheeful". In 2022, INDIEROR also became the programmer of Sala Amarela, joining the small room to the programming locations in the city of Chaves, with the Auditorium of the Chaves Cultural Center and the N2 Festival.
As a producer, he has presented hundreds of shows and received several distinctions, such as nominations for the EFFE Festival Label, Portugal Festival Awards, Iberian Festival Awards, Public Recognition of Merit by the AAC and the distinction in the project "Reasons to be Cheerful" by David Byrne.
PhD in Economics from the University of Beira Interior, postgraduate in Territorial Marketing and researcher as an integrated member of NECE – Research Center in Business Sciences (UBI). She is the executive coordinator of a regional development association, which promotes tourism in the region of influence (Territórios do Côa, ADR).
Her professional career includes technical experience in participating in and coordinating regional development, tourism promotion and cross-border cooperation projects. She is a higher education lecturer, trainer, business consultant and guest speaker at initiatives for regional and tourism promotion, innovation and the fostering of creative and entrepreneurial spirit.
Author of the book 'Pensar o Interior', published by Caminho das Palavras, she regularly contributes opinion pieces to local and regional newspapers. She is also the author and co-author of scientific articles published in newspapers, magazines and books on Economics and Management. She is also the co-author of the book Caderno de Emoções and editorial coordinator of several books and brochures on communication and tourism promotion in the area of influence of the association she directs.
27 years old, born in Viseu. Graduated in Languages and Business Relations and Master in Management (Univ. Aveiro). Currently, he is a PhD candidate in Economic and Business Sciences and a PhD Fellow at the Research Unit in Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies (GOVCOPP) where he researches entrepreneurship and innovation in rural and low-density areas.
He is also co-founder and coordinator of Rural Move - Association for the Promotion of Investment in Low Density Territories. In recent years, he has actively participated in the discussion and promotion of development activities in the Interior, through the publication of scientific studies, opinion articles, and the organization and participation in debates and events of a national and international nature.
Born in Baleizão, he dedicates his life to his land and region.
With a degree in History, he continued his academic training with two master's degrees: one in Pedagogy, and another in Contemporary History, with an exemplary career.
He is currently the General Administrator and Association Leader and always volunteers in whatever way he can have a positive impact on people. In 2003, he became President of the Casa do Povo de Baleizão, where he continues to hold the position. Since 2013, he has also been President of the Nossa Senhora da Graça Social Center in Baleizão.
In 2018, with the dedication that he and his team demonstrate for the social sector, IISBA - Incubadora de Inovação Social do Baixo Alentejo was founded, of which he is the coordinator and where the entity generated outstanding projects at national level.
He holds a degree in Physics and Chemistry Teaching from the University of Évora and a PhD in Organometallic Chemistry from the Instituto Superior Técnico de Lisboa. After a short period as a researcher in the area of chemistry applied to conservation and restoration, he dedicated himself professionally to science communication and education in informal settings, having been a presenter of science dissemination programs on television and director of the Education, Science and Culture Unit of the Pavilhão do Conhecimento - Centro Ciência Viva.
He has curated several scientific exhibitions and acted as a consultant on museum projects in Portugal and abroad. He worked with Toyno - Experience Design Studio as a project and content manager, having participated in the design of several scientific-themed exhibitions.
He is currently an assistant researcher at the University of Évora, where he coordinates the _ARTERIA_LAB - Arts, Entrepreneurship, Research, Innovation and Application Lab and other cultural and creative entrepreneurship projects.
Graduated in Social Communication from the University of Minho. She completed her degree in 1998, the year in which she began her internship at the Porto editorial office of the newspaper PÚBLICO. For many years she was a journalist in the Local section, where she wrote mainly about planning and urbanism. She moved to the Economics section, where she gained experience in topics such as public investment, planning, housing and territorial cohesion.
He left the newspaper in 2011 to pursue a personal project of taking a family trip around the world – reported weekly in the pages of Fugas magazine –, returning to the PÚBLICO editorial team, full-time, in 2015, when he intensified his interest in the areas of territorial cohesion and territorial valorization.
He created the Hotelandia project, which showcases good examples of Portuguese hospitality, and since the end of the 2000s he has dedicated himself, body and soul, to the Rostos da Aldeia project, a documentary platform that publishes inspiring stories of people who live in the villages of Portugal.
Father of Maria Eduarda and Afonso, social worker and activist for local development and regeneration of the common home. PhD in sociology from UBI, master in social and solidarity economy, postgraduate in partnership project management and degree in social work.
President of the Animar Association - Portuguese Association for Local Development, Vice-President of the Portuguese Confederation of the Social Economy, and member of the governing bodies of CASES - António Sérgio Cooperative for the Social Economy and CEIS - Center for Economy and Social Innovation. He is also a Member of the National Council for the Social Economy and the Consultative Forum for the National Strategy to Combat Poverty 2021-2030.
Assistant Professor at the Castelo Branco School of Education/IPCB and Integrated Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Unit - Functional Aging Communities - AGE.COM. Since 1998, he has taken on different roles in community projects, fighting poverty, citizenship education and promoting sustainability.
Born in Lisbon (1977), he spent his childhood and youth in Bairro Alto, Lisbon. He currently lives with his family on a farm in Castelo Branco.
Forestry Engineer, Master in Management and Conservation of Natural Resources and PhD in Sustainability Sciences. In 2004, she migrated from the coastal urban area (Sintra) to the rural interior (Mértola), where she has dedicated her energy to bringing together people, ideas and entities to develop collective and participatory strategies for the valorization and regeneration of the territory, which seek to find the hidden abundance in environments apparently scarce in resources.
For 6 years, he promoted and coordinated the PROVERE Valorização dos Recursos Silvestres do Mediterrâneo project. He currently collaborates with ESDIME, coordinating the Regenerative Pastures project, which involves a Community of Practice of farmers around climate adaptation solutions through regenerative agriculture, as well as the TerrAlimenta project, which aims to design a Territorized Food System, on the scale of Baixo Alentejo.
In 2016, he co-founded the Guadiana Valley Business Association (which he chairs) and, in 2019, he co-founded Terra Sintrópica, with the aim of promoting the agroecological transition and regeneration through use, with a vision from the local to the global.
Born in Cem Soldos, Tomar, he is 34 years old, a graphic designer, editorial designer and artistic director of BONS SONS. He maintains a strong connection to associations, having been a member of the board of Sport Club Operário de Cem Soldos since 2014, of which he was president in the 2020-2021 biennium. He stands out especially for his associative work in the areas of communication, education, culture and community involvement in Cem Soldos.
He is an activist for the rights of people with disabilities and belongs to the Independent Living Center, as a member of the Leiria Delegation, being a beneficiary of the pilot project with the same name - Independent Living -, implemented in Portugal since 2019.
She has coordinated the Archaeology Unit of the Geology Department at UTAD since 1996. She is a specialist in rock art and holds a PhD in “Quaternary, Materials and Cultures”. In her more than 35-year research career, she has worked on 5 continents, including several UNESCO World Heritage sites. She is the author and co-author of dozens of articles, chapters and books. She has organized and coordinated dozens of national and international scientific meetings and congresses.
He is a founding member of “Alter Ibi – Transfrontier Association for Development” and a member of more than a dozen other associations linked to heritage in Portugal and abroad.
She was coordinator of the "Movement for the safeguarding of rock art in the Côa Valley", which led to the suspension of the dam and, for this fact, she was awarded the "Conservation Award" from ARARA, in the USA.
She currently considers herself fundamentally an activist in the defense of natural, material and immaterial heritage and is currently committed to the campaign for the suspension of the Serra de Passos (Mirandela) wind farm and the reactivation of the Corgo line.
He lives in a small village in the Tanha valley, in the Douro.
Head of the Renewable Energies chair at the University of Évora and Coordinator of INIESC - National Infrastructure for Research in Solar Energy Concentration, he has a career spanning over 20 years in research into solar energy technologies and applications, with a special focus on solar concentrators and their applications at medium and high temperatures.
Its previous activities in these fields, developed in collaboration with LNEG - National Laboratory of Energy and Geology (2002 - 2011) and the University of Évora (2011 - 2015), included the development of R&D, training, engineering, consultancy or product development activities.
During a 4-year collaboration as Head of the Solar Process Heating and Industrial Systems Group (Department of High-Temperature Solar and Industrial Processes) at the Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme ISE (2015 to 2019), he was deeply involved in research, technical and financial issues related to industrial process heating (SHIP).
At the University of Évora, he leads a group of more than 25 researchers, technicians and postgraduate students in the development of applied research on the use of solar technologies in the decarbonization of different economic sectors.
He is coordinator of two Horizon Europe twinning projects, ensuring high-level cooperation with DLR (Germany) and ENEA (Italy) in the field of solar applications with molten salts (SALTOpower) and with CIEMAT (Spain), ITCanarias (Spain) and UNIPAlermo (Italy) in the field of solar desalination and water treatment (Sol2H2O).
Integrated researcher at the Center for Research in Agro-Environmental and Biological Technologies (CITAB) and Full Professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), retired in February 2022, where he held numerous positions (President of the Scientific Council of ECAV, member of the General Council, etc.)
He has a degree in Forestry Engineering (Silviculture) from the Instituto Superior de Agronomia, with a PhD and Aggregation in Forestry Engineering from UTAD.
He is a current member of the National Water Council, the Council of the Northern Hydrographic Region, the Independent Technical Observatory of Rural Fires within the scope of the Assembly of the Republic (2018-2022) and Director of the Ecossocialismo Magazine.
He has been teaching since 1979, having participated in the Bachelor's Degrees in Forestry Engineering, Applied Ecology, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Environmental Sciences and in the Master's Degrees in Forestry Engineering, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Engineering, among others. He has participated in numerous postgraduate courses at UTAD, Technical University of Lisbon, University of Minho, University of Coimbra, University of Évora and University of Algarve.
He has research and technical work carried out in the following areas: Ecology of aquatic ecosystems, ecological monitoring of water quality, disturbance in forest ecosystems, planning of river basins, requalification of watercourses (with a special focus on habitat recovery) and Environmental Impact Study and Assessment. He has coordinated several research projects funded by FCT. He has carried out research work at Wageningen University (Netherlands) and Oregon State University (USA).
He is the author and co-author of 228 articles, books and book chapters, has several pedagogical publications and is the author of 7 books or book chapters.
He created and directed the UTAD River Ecology Laboratory for 20 years, and participated in around five dozen projects with public and private entities, especially in the field of water resources monitoring and river requalification, namely in the implementation of the Water Framework Directive, in the planning of river basins and the establishment of Basin Plans and the National Water Plan, environmental requalification of watercourses and environmental impact studies.
Annual publication that integrates the reflections collected at the Discover Your Interior festival and other Agenda initiatives, and that invites the main political, economic and social protagonists to look at the interior of Portugal. The 2023 edition also presents an original angle on the challenges related to the populations living in the interior of the country, focusing on a new way of looking at the problems of the interior, related to an identity perspective.
The interior of the country suffers from representation problems in various dimensions of state and private organization, resulting from the decline in population over the years. For one day, we will invite personalities to discuss how we can find solutions to this problem. The date of this initiative will be announced soon.
The first itinerant festival in the interior of Portugal, which promotes unique cultural experiences closely linked to the identity of each territory. From conversations to reflect on the interior, concerts in unique spaces, dinners that celebrate gastronomy, tours that reveal closed spaces and even workshops dedicated to local crafts. The program for the 2022 edition can be consulted here.
In each edition of Gerador Magazine, which we launch every four months, we reserve a relevant space to talk about a territory, personalities or organizations from the interior of the country. These are reports that highlight the culture of the interior, its economic agents and that suggest tourism solutions, from accommodation, through restaurants, to local events.
Podcasts are the perfect format to be heard throughout the country, regardless of geographic location. Once a month, we will interview key players with ideas that should be heard for the future of the countryside and low-density areas.
Once a quarter, we will publish a major report on the main challenges facing the interior, from mobility to health and the Internet. These will be digital reports, with a strong design dimension, amplified through our social networks.
Over the years that the Gerador has been working on the Interior for which it has been difficult to find information and structured knowledge. In the second half of 2023, we will present on our website a collection of national and international publications that reflect on these topics, also bringing universities and polytechnics into this project.
By the end of 2023, we will approach local authorities in the interior that have been working with us to design training courses in the areas of management, communication and staff development that are of interest to their communities. In the first quarter of 2024, we will launch a dedicated Training Program, aimed primarily at local authority workers and local agents. Find out more about the Gerador Academy, here.
From September 2023, we will have at the Academy Gerador the course Living, Working and Investing in the Interior, with João Almeida, co-founder and coordinator of Rural Move – Association for the Promotion of Investment in Low-Density Territories, which was created with the aim of promoting repopulation and investment in territories in the interior of Portugal, thus fostering greater territorial cohesion in our country. Find out more here.
