Moderator: Válter R Fonseca

Válter Fonseca is a Physician, specialised in Internal Medicine. He has a Doctor's Degree in Medicine-Immunology.

Dr. Fonseca is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon.

He has a Postgraduation in Health Management from the Catholic University of Portugal.

Currently, he is the Head of Medical Decision and Health Quality at UpHill Health.

He was the Director of the Department of Quality in Health, at the Directorate-General for Health (Direção-Geral da Saúde, DGS) from 2018 to 2022 and Coordinator of the Technical Commission for Vaccination Against COVID-19 from 2020 to 2022.

Speaker: Cristina Vaz de Almeida

President of the Portuguese Health Literacy Society and the Director of the Graduate Program in Health Literacy at ISPA

Senior researcher and lecturer at ISCSP-UL with a PhD in Communication Sciences - Health Literacy

Has also been involved in a number of research projects and initiatives aimed at promoting health literacy being the Chief-Editor of Medical Investigation Journal

 

Speaker: Paula Mena Matos

Paula Mena Matos is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences at the University of Porto. She teaches in the fields of clinical, health and developmental psychology, and has been supervising curricular internships for the last 30 years

She has been coordinating several scientific research projects and her research interests include the topics of close relationship dynamics, attachment and emotional processes across different developmental stages and contexts (e.g., family, residential care, transition to adulthood, work-family balance, psycho-oncology, psychotherapy) 

Recently, she became Director of the Center for Psychology at University of Porto, a Research & Development Unit funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology

Roundtable: Political Polarisation: a risk to our democracy?

 

Moderator: Pedro Ferreira

Pedro Daniel Ferreira is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto and a member of CIIE - Centre for Research and Intervention in Education

He holds a PhD in Psychology and his main research focus is the political participation and the political development of young people and adults

More recently, he is particularly interested in researching how digital contexts, digital technologies and digital media contribute to political subjectivation and political education 

Pedro has been involved in and coordinated a number of national and international projects on these topics. He is a member of the Portuguese Society of Education Sciences (SPCE).

Speaker: Cátia Moreira de Carvalho

 

Cátia Moreira de Carvalho has a Doctor's Degree from the University of Porto.

She studies violent extremism and terrorism, psychosocial processes of (de)radicalisation, as well as refugees and migration.

She has been involved in several research projects and has authored papers on these topics.

During her PhD she studied some of the reasons that explain the absence of violent radicalisation from Islamist inspired terrorism and was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge.

Currently, she is a researcher at Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto, a member of the Radicalisation Awareness Network of the European Commission and a consultant on preventing and countering violent extremism at OSCE. 

 

Speaker: Moisés Ferreira

Psychologist and PhD student at FPCEUP (Faculty of Psychology and Science Education of University of Porto)

Between 2015 and 2022, has been a member of the Portuguese parliament by “Bloco de Esquerda” being the party coordinator in the Heath area.

As a member of parliament, he has served on the Parliament Health Committee and some other Work Groups such as the Work Group for Mental Health.

 

  Speaker: Vítor Costa

• Has a PhD in Psychology (University of Beira Interior -UBI) and a master's in work and organisational psychology
• Assistant researcher at UBI's BSAFE Lab - Law Enforcement, Justice and Public Safety Research and Technology Transfer Lab
• Worked on several EU-funded projects in the field of radicalisation and violent extremism, including the R2PRIS - Radicalisation Prevention in Prisons project, whose methodology, assessment instruments and training materials were selected as best practice by the RAN Collection Expert Review (DG Migration and Home Affairs)

 

Workshop: Mental Escape: Non-formal educational approach for youth mental health

Facilitators: Özlem Eylem-van Bergeijk and Doğa Kayra Avseven

She completed her studies at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College University of London, and specialised in clinical assessment and therapeutic approaches whilst working with adolescents presenting with self-harm

Funded by a personal grant from the European Commission, she completed her Ph.D. at VU Amsterdam University, and she investigated the feasibility and effectiveness of an e-mental health intervention for suicidal ideation among Turkish migrants in the Netherlands and in the UK. During her Ph.D., she collaborated with the Centre for Psychiatry, at the Queen Mary University of London as a visiting research fellow. 

Has received several public engagement grants and recognitions from prestigious bodies for bringing various disciplines together to increase suicide awareness among Turkish migrant populations throughout her Ph.D. 

Member of the Global Mental Health Cultural Psychiatry Research Group as a researcher. 

Currently works on a project developing a rehabilitation programme for Burn survivors in Low and Middle-Income Countries. Also, she works with a mental health company (Cerina), developing CBT-based, Artificial intelligence-supported mobile applications for psychological disorders, as a research lead.

 

 

 

 

Speaker: Raquel Corval (ProChild)

Raquel Corval is a psychologist and currently a PhD candidate in Minho University.

Raquel works as a coordinator and researcher on a Education and Development Project at Nursery School (in collaboration with ProChild CoLab and Belmiro de Azevedo Foundation). At the same time, Raquel works in clinical psychology.

In both areas of action, Raquel has been essentially dedicated to the first years of life, in a perspective of collaborative work with families and contexts of early childhood education.

Her research interests have focused on development trajectories in contexts of greater vulnerability, namely with regard to the role of families and attachment.

 

Speaker: Francisco Branco

Francisco Branco is an associate professor in Portuguese Catholic University where he teaches the History of Social Work and Social Policy and Research.

He has a PhD in Social Work with a specialisation in social policy and social movements since 2001. 

Francisco Branco is the coordinator of the PhD in Social Work and the coordinator of the Centre for Human Development Studies Public Interest Policies and Human Development at this University.

He is a Board member of the European Social Work Research Association - ESWRA - and a member of the Editorial Board of the Critical and Radical Social Work Journal.

His recent research focuses on the History of Social Work in Portugal and on the Relationship between Social Work and Social Policy, mainly in the USA. 

Francisco Branco has developed his research on the participation of social service academics in social policy, and also on the minimum income standard in Portugal based on the qualitative consensual approach. He has published, mainly in Portuguese, on a wide variety of topics, such as social work research, the history of social work, the social work profession, poverty and social assistance.

 

 

Roundtable: Alternative Interventions: What is the evidence for the usefulness of psychedelic drugs for the psychological/clinical context?

 

Moderator: Bárbara Bessa 

Bárbara de Sá Bessa is a student at ISPA-IU in Lisbon pursuing a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology. 

She first became interested in Psychology while she was completing her studies in New York City. Bárbara graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Psychology at Hunter College while participating in volunteer projects in non-profit organisations geared towards marginalised communities. 

After her experience abroad, she took an interest in the Expat community and developed her curricular internship in Geneva at REIS Psychotherapy. 

Bárbara recently joined a research team investigating the clinical efficacy of psychedelics.

 

Speaker: Carolina Seybert

 

Carolina Seybert, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice and post doc researcher at the Neuropsychiatry Unit (NPU) at Champalimaud Foundation (CF).

After completing her PhD in psychotherapy at the University of Ulm, Germany, she pursued psychoanalytic psychotherapy training at the Washington Center of Psychoanalysis (USA).

Back to Germany, she joined the International Psychoanalytic University, in Berlin, as post doc researcher to investigate emotional experiencing and working alliance in psychotherapy.

Finally, she moved back with her family to her home country Portugal and joined the NPU at CF in Lisbon because of her interest in alternative treatments for chronic neuropsychiatric disorders, such as Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and psychedelic research.

Meanwhile, she has been focused on the implementation of psychedelic-assisted clinical trials and the role of psychological support in these treatments. 

 

 

Speaker: Tadeuzs Hawrot

Tadeusz Hawrot has spent 15 years working in the EU environment, leading the policy and advocacy work of several civil society organisations in the field of brain health. He was instrumental in setting up new advocacy alliances such as National Brain Councils, Portuguese Societal Impact of Pain Platform and a global partnership OneNeurology. He is cooperating with World Health Organisation and other global health advocates. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the Psychedelic Access and Research European Alliance.

 

 

 

Speaker: Daniel Pires Martins

After studying at ICBAS in Porto and Berlin and obtaining my Integrated Master's Degree in Medicine in 2009, Daniel Pires Martins decided to do his Medical Specialisation in Switzerland. 

He had the opportunity to work as a FMH (Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum) specialist in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG) and was able to enrich his experience by becoming a psychotherapist in Analytical Psychotherapy at the C.G. Jung-Institute in Zurich. 

Along his path, he collaborated in different fields of Psychiatry, before being able to create and coordinate, beginning in 2019, the Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy programme, an innovative and pioneering treatment at the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG). 

He took the initiative, in November 2022, to open his private clinic in Geneva, where he practises exclusively and on a daily basis.

 

 

Speaker: João Taborda da Gama

 

-  João Taborda Gama is a lawyer and academic. Besides being a founding partner of Gama Glória, a law firm based in Lisbon, he is also a senior advisor to Albright Stonebridge Group, based in Washington DC, and also teaches at the Catholic University Law School in Portugal.

- João advises governments, patients, therapists, NGOs and global companies on the regulation, use, production and trade of controlled substances in medical, religious, spiritual and recreational contexts.

- João acts as a counsel to global organisations advocating for harm reduction and the responsible adult use of cannabis, psychedelics and entheogen plants. He lectures on the regulation of controlled substances, both at the Law and the Medical school of the Catholic University.

- Also worthy of mention is the position of João on the Business Ethics Committee of the Portuguese Pharma Association, a political advisor to the President of Portugal and former member of the Portuguese Government. Additionally, João published “The Regulation of Medical Cannabis in Portugal” (Brazil, 2019) and “Regulate and Protect: towards a new drug policy” (Lisbon, 2022); “Psychedelic Law” (forthcoming 2023).

 

Roundtable: Addressing the rising challenges: methodologies of citizen involvement and engagement

 

Moderator: Carina Dantas

Carina Dantas has a degree in Law, she is a PhD candidate for Biomedical Sciences and is the CEO of SHINE 2Europe with over 20 years-experience in areas related to health, social aspects and Information and Communications Technology.

She is the Chair of the COST Action NET4Age-Friendly, Coordinator of the Stakeholders Network on SHAFE - Smart Healthy Age-friendly Environments and Vice-President of the European Covenant on Demographic Change.

Carina is evaluator/reviewer for the European Commission, Eureka, AAL, EIT Climate and EIT Digital; Committee Member of CEN/CENELEC TC 428 and member of the Expert Team developing the EU Ethics framework for the ICT Profession; and Team Leader of the group of experts designing the Reference Guidelines in the Field of Ethics, Data Privacy and Security, contracted by the AAL Programme.

She is, also, Ethics Board Member of the H2020 Valuecare and IMI Beamer projects, Advisory Board Member of the H2020/MSCA/AAL projects ReHyb, VisuAAL, PROCare4Life, Tactile, Homes4life, Uptake, DTHSC, and reviewer of ICF Journal, Geriatrics and MDPI.

She has written over 300 proposals for funded projects and implemented/managed several of them, for different funding programmes.

 

Speaker: Mónica Sousa

Mónica Sousa is a Psychologist and an member of the Portuguese Psychologists Association (OPP) with an specialisation in Clinical and Health Psychology.

In 2017, she concluded her PhD with Distinction and Praise at the University of Aveiro/ Department of Education and Psychology.

She has published a series of scientific articles and a Book. In 2012, she created the PAPI- Programa de Apoio Psicológico ao Idoso®/Psychological Support Program for the Elderly and currently she coordinate the VirtuALL Project (Symbiosis between Innovation, Aging and Quality of Life) which were considered as Good Practices by the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP AHA).

 

 

 

 

 

Speaker: Ana Teixeira de Melo

Ana Teixeira de Melo is researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra.

She was awarded a PhD in Clinical Psychology, by the University of Coimbra, and the title of Specialist in Clinical Psychology, with Advanced Speciality in Community Psychology, by the Portuguese Psychologists Association (OPP).

Her main research focus is on processes of human flourishing and well-being, positive change, development and resilience, in Families and Communities,  targeting contexts of multiple risks and social challenges and of child protection and promotion.

She adopts a Systems and Complexity-Informed approach to the study of Family and Community Processes. She investigates Love (Love-Force) as an emergent relational force, from a complex systems perspective and its role as a key human resilience and flourishing process.

She has conducted action-based, collaborative and applied research focused on the development, implementation and evaluation of models, resources and tools for family assessment and intervention.

Her research aims at the development and evaluation of theoretical models, resources and strategies for the practice of 'Complex Thinking' applied to the management of change in complex systems, particularly social human systems, in the coupling with their environments.

Additionally, her work encompasses themes related to Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Methods and Inter/Transdisciplinarity processes, in relation to scientific creativity and abductive modes of knowing, and other themes of the Philosophy of Sciences (e.g. Epistemologies).

She is an elected member of the Executive Committee (2020-2023) and of the Council (2019-2022) of the Complex Systems Society, Academic Editor of the journal Complexity (from 2021) and Associate, since 2016, of the York Cross-Disciplinary Centre for Systems Analysis, where she was a visiting academic (2016-2018).

 

Workshop: Contribution Psychology and Psychologists to a Full Stop on Poverty

 

Speaker: Tiago Pereira - the first speaker of the day (see above!)

 

 

 

 

 

Speaker: Celso Costa from Next Level Hub

Celso has a Master in Psychology and a Post-graduation in Entrepreneurship and Innovation in a joint program between the University of California, Berkeley, and Católica Porto Business School. 

Currently, Celso is the  CEO and founder of Next Level Hub, a company driven to take people, teams, and organisations to the next level of their development, objectives, and metrics. Using methodologies that harness the scientific power of behavioural sciences to adapt to new goals and needs creatively, Next Level Hub has integrated several services focusing mainly on skills development, organisational culture, and mental health & well-being. 

Celso is the Founder of Superhero Program, an innovative program designed for students aged 5 to 10 where essential skills and character strengths are developed as superpowers, such as teamwork, bravery, and grit, along a journey of 9 months. Also, he founded the CSS Program – Coaching Students to Success -  a pioneer and evidence-based soft skills training program designed for students aged 14 to 18 to empower their emotional intelligence, strategic communication, creativity, productivity, entrepreneurship, and leadership, amongst other key skills. Ranked in 2018 as one of the top 10 most relevant projects in Education in Portugal by the Global Teacher Prize Award.

He was chosen one of the Top 100 – Project 100 Opportunities from Lisbon Global Shapers. This initiative selected the 100 most impactful young professionals (up to age 35) in several areas of society. In this case Celso was chosen in the area of Education. 

Between 2017 and 2021 he was a Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the Faculty of Education and Psychology – Universidade Católica Portuguesa. An Invited Professor of Advanced Skills in Psychological Intervention  between 2015 and 2016) at the same university. 

He also taught Psychology at Oporto International School – CLIP (2012 – 2018)

31st of March

Roundtable: 286 years toward gender equality: How to accelerate the progress of public policies?

Speaker: Manuel Albano

Manuel Joaquim Pereira Albano is the Vice-President of the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality (CIG) since October 2020, a position he also held between 2009 and 2011.

Between 2012 and 2020 he was service director of the North delegation of the CIG.

He has been National Rapporteur for Human Trafficking since January 2008. Coordinator of the I, II, III and IV National Plan against Trafficking in Human Beings and Focal Point with the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) for issues of Gender Equality and Human Trafficking.

He is graduated in Social Service by the Institute of Social Service of Porto (1993), having started working in the area of gender equality and women's human rights and gender violence in 1994.

 

 

Speaker: Patrícia Faro

Patrícia Faro is a social worker and deputy at the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic.

She has previously served as the President of the Administrative Commission of the Matosinhos Delegation of the Portuguese Red Cross and as the Technical Director of a shelter for women victims of domestic violence at the Matosinhos Delegation of the Portuguese Red Cross

In addition, Patrícia is a lecturer at the CRIAP Institute with a special focus on the module of Intervention in Contexts of Violence and Crime and Shelter Accommodation since 2017. She was also a member of the CVP team for the design and implementation of the pilot project of emergency shelter homes (CAEVVD) for victims of domestic violence in 2011.

Patrícia is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Sociology doing her research about Inequalities and Political Action.

 

Speaker: Ana Luísa Abreu

Ana Luísa Abreu is a Clinical and Health psychologist by University of Porto and a postgraduate in Human Rights (IGC/CDH).

Currently, Ana works as a project manager of "MaRvel: (re)veiled Masculinities", financed under the EEA Grants financial mechanism, with Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality (CIG) as the project operator and at Associação Plano i as its promoter. 

She previously coordinated and worked on projects in the field of bullying prevention, dating violence prevention and the promotion of gender equality as a psychologist and victim support technician. 

Ana is also a co-author of the children's book "As Gavetas do Mundo: um livro para desarrumar ideias".

 

 

Roundtable: Psychologists in decision-making contexts: How can we make a difference?

Speaker: Sofia Mexia Alves

Sofia Mexia Alves is a Master in Psychology with specialisation in Psychology of Justice and Deviant Behaviour (FEP.UCP - Porto).

Currently, she works at the Aga Khan Foundation Portugal (Porto) and is president of Associação Unificar and coordinator of the projects DROPI (socioemotional education program aimed at children), ACHIMPA (citizenship education program aimed at young people) and SHOTGUN (project of social reintegration of people with addictive behaviors); and consultant and teacher at the Transversal Area of Social Economy (UCP-Porto).

Recently, she served as Member of the Executive of the Union of Parishes of Aldoar, Foz do Douro and Nevogilde, Department of Social Cohesion (2017-2021).

She has worked as a project manager, consultant and trainer (in topics such as Personal Development, Personal Storytelling, Leadership, Project Management, Addictive Behaviors, among others).

 

 

 

Speaker: Tânia Gaspar

Tânia Gaspar has a Degree in Clinical Psychology, a PhD in Psychology, a PhD in Management and a Master in Public Health.

She is an Associate Professor with Aggregation and Director of the Centre for Psychology, Innovation and Knowledge/ Universidade Lusófona 

She is the President of Aventura Social Association and a Clinical and Health Psychologist at CENC/Lisbon and Hospital CUF Cascais.

She is a Senior Researcher for Portugal, Coordinator of Zone A (Mediterranean Countries) and Member of the International Coordination Commission of the Study Health Behaviour School Aged Children/World Health Organisation

She is the Coordinator of the Portuguese Laboratory for Healthy Working Environments , a Member of the Consultative Council of the Southern Regional Delegation of the Portuguese Psychologists Order

Tânia is also a Member of the Board of the Portuguese Association of Psychogerontology, of the Board of the Portuguese Association of Health and Behaviour Sciences and of the International Society of Behavioural Medicine.

 

Moderator: Gabriela Silva 

Gabriela has a Master in Deviant Behaviour and Justice.  She is working as a Learning Coach in an International School - Brave Generation Academy - and she is a psychologist in two clinical settings - Desafios and Descolar.  At the moment she is doing a Post-Graduate in Local Collaborative Development and a specialisation in Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy with Children and Adolescents.

In the last two years she was a Mentor of Teach For Portugal, part of the international network Teach For All, which aims to build a fair education for all, serving students from underprivileged communities through developing collective leadership and transforming the education system to end education inequality. Gabriela was a member of the Portuguese Association of the European Youth Parliament and volunteered in numerous Congresses and Conferences. 

 

Roundtable: Sexual Education in Schools: what still needs to be done?

Speaker: Zélia Ferreira Caçador Anastácio

Zélia Ferreira Caçador Anastácio is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Education of the University of Minho (IE-UM) where she teaches the Human Biology and Health and Nature Sciences I curricular units. 

She has a PhD (in co-tutelle, 2007) in Child Studies, in the specialty area of Child Health (by the University of Minho, Portugal) and in Didactics of Biology, Health and Environment (by the University Claude Bernard Lyon-1, France) and a Master in Health Promotion/Education and Licentiate in Biology and Geology (teaching of) (both by UTAD, Portugal). 

Zélia is a member of the Research Center on Child Studies (CIEC), where she is coordinator of Thematic Line 3 - Childhood Professionals, as well as researcher in Health Promotion and Education, more focused on Sexuality Education. 

Also, she ia a member of the Steering Committee of the PhD Program in Child Studies, where she coordinates the specialty area of Physical Education and Child Health. 

Zélia is the Responsible Researcher of the project Development of Skills for Health and Healthy Sexuality from the Identification of Needs in School and Institutional Environment, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (2012-2015), and has also been a team member of several national and international projects, including European, Brazilian and African, on health and child well-being and professional development of teachers. 

Lastly, Zélia is a Supervisor of Master's Degree, Doctoral and Postdoctoral Students and an author of several scientific publications in journals, book chapters and proceedings of scientific events, as well as editor of some books. She is a reviewer for several international journals and a project evaluator for the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (e-COST) program.

 

Roundtable: How can psychology influence policy making?

Moderator: Carolina Garraio

Carolina is a Master in Clinical and Health Psychology by the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto (FPCEUP) and Psychologist;

PhD student at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto (FPCEUP) in the areas of co-parenting and gender issues, with a scholarship from the National Foundation for Science and Technology;

She has collaborated in two international research projects at FPCEUP: "RESET - Redesigning Equality and Scientific Excellence Together", which addresses issues of gender equality in academia through changing organisational cultures; "CopaGloba: Learning to Coparent", which aims to understand the drivers and barriers in the construction of coparenting during the transition to parenthood

In 2021, in representation of the Portuguese Psychologists Association (OPP), she joined the Learning Leadership Institute (LLI) project from the American Psychological Association (APA), which aims to deepen the contributions of psychology in response to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 3: Health and Well-being, 10: Reduction of Inequalities, and 13: Climate Action

As an undergraduate and master's student at FPCEUP, she was part of the Faculty Students’ Association, and was also the President of the National Association of Psychology Students for 2 terms.

 

Speaker: Nicola Gale

Nicola Gale (CPsychol, FBPsS) is Vice President and Treasurer of the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations (EFPA). She is EFPA’s Executive Council lead for psychology and climate change and response to COVID-19, representative to the Global Psychology Alliance in which capacity she represented psychology at COP26, liaison to the American Psychological Association and for EFPA Member Association the Ordem Dos Psicólogos Portugueses. She is on the steering group of the joint APA, EFPA and Federation of Swiss Psychologists’ collaboration to bring psychology to the UN in Geneva. She has been part of the team setting up EFPA’s work with the WHO Europe European Mental Health Coalition.

Nicola has been President of The British Psychological Society (BPS) and represented UK psychology in Europe and internationally. She has participated in international conferences across Europe, in North America, and Asia Pacific. As BPS president she engaged with policymakers at government and opposition political party conferences, policy meetings with officials, and the All Party Parliamentary Group for psychology at the UK Parliament.

Nicola has worked as a psychologist for over 20 years both in an academic teaching role at City, University of London, and as a clinical lead and service manager providing mental health and organisational development services in occupational health in the UK National Health Service. Prior to becoming a psychologist she worked for 20 years in a global professional services firm in roles including at director level in HR and organisational development, in education and training, and operational management. As a management consultant she worked on international consultancy assignments. She is a former chartered accountant and reached senior management in auditing and assurance working on global accounts.

 

 

Speaker: Francisco Miranda Rodrigues

Francisco Miranda Rodrigues is a Psychologist, with specialisation in Work, Social and Organisational Psychology and in Occupational Health Psychology, is a Consultant in the Behavioural, Leadership and Organisational Development field. Has experience in the direction and management of human resources, quality, environment and health and safety at work.

He graduated in Psychology from the University of Lisbon, is a National Counsellor of Education, member of the Monitoring Committee of POCH and COMPETE and Co-founder of several projects, with emphasis at national level for the Order of Psychologists, in which he was Executive Director and is currently President. 

 

 

 

 

Speaker: Amanda Clinton

Amanda Clinton, MEd, PhD, is the senior director for the APA’s Office of International Affairs. Prior to joining the APA, she served as professor of psychology at the University of Puerto Rico, where she specialized in culturally relevant program adaptation, social emotional learning and neuropsychology, notably of bilingualism. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and a credentialed school psychologist with experience in community clinics, pediatric hospitals, schools, academic settings, and public policy. Her scholarly work includes publication of “Integrated Assessment of the Bilingual Child” and numerous peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, as well as associate editorship of several journals. She has won many professional awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Educator of the Year Award and a AAAS Congressional Fellowship which she completed in the office of Senator Chris Murphy, D-CT, where she helped write the Mental Health Reform Act. She earned her master’s degree at the University of Washington and her doctoral degree at the University of Georgia.

 

 

Moderator: Carolina Garraio

 

 

Roundtable: How can psychologists create an impact towards climate action?

Presentation: How to apply Psychological knowledge to all dimensions of  policy making or to overcome psychologists shortcomings

Speaker: José Manuel Palma-Oliveira

• José Manuel Palma Oliveira ia a Professor, CICPSI at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Lisbon, Portugal
• Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Dept of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia
• Pastpresident of Security Risk Aanalysis - Europe; Fellow since 2012, and 2016’s recipient of the SRA Presidential Merit Award.
• He currently lectures in Europe, North and South America, Africa etc. about environmental solutions and environmental science.
• He published in environmental history and change and its interaction with social conflicts particularly the patterns of human behaviours in post-agricultural regions like the Middle East and the Mediterranean. He made significant contributions to environmental and risk policy in Portugal and in the EU. 
• He was CEO of the Foundation for the Protection of the Salinas (wetlands) Samouco between 2001 and 2008, and a Board member of the European Federation of Transport and Environment (Brussels–EU advocacy group) from 1997 to 2010.
• He was the Chairman (mentoring and designing) of Parks of Industrial Ecology, focusing on waste treatment compounds. He was involved in the design and implementation of the most advanced solid waste compounds of large areas in Portugal. 
• He is working with ALMINA coordinating a stakeholders environmental Committee and working as environmental consultant with expertise in the Social License to operate (mining).

 

 

Speaker: Ricardo García-Mira

Ricardo García-Mira (1956) has a PhD in Psychology (1994 - University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain).

He is currently a Full Professor of Social and Environmental Psychology at the University of A Coruña, Spain.

He was the Director of the People-Environment Research Group of the University of A Coruña during the last 27 years (1995-2022). He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Bath, UK (2015-2022).

He was elected “Doctor Honoris Causa” by the University “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” of Iasi (Romania). He was elected “Fellow” of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP).

He was also a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo (2021), a Visiting Scholar at the College of Human Ecology of Cornell University (Ithaca, March, 2020); a Visiting Reader of the University of Surrey (Guildford, UK), during the period 2003-2012; an International Visiting Scholar at the Texas State University (USA, 2001); a Visiting Professor at the University of Tallinn (Estonia, 2002), University of Timisoara (2004, 2005), University Al. I. Cuza (Iasi, 2005, 2006); Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM (Mexico, 2006), and Federal University of Ceará (Brazil, 2012).

He was a member of the Parliament of Spain in the period 2016-2019, where he carried out the role of Spokesman in the Commission for the Study of Climate Change.

 

Roundtable: Mental Health Aid: The inclusion of psychosocial intervention in the protocols of Humanitarian Catastrophes

Moderator: Randdy Ferreira

Randdy Ferreira is a Psychologist in the Portuguese Red Cross, with a specialisation in Clinical and Health Psychology.

He has more than 15 years of experience, having specialised in the area of psychotraumatology, where he has furthered his training in countries such as Israel, the USA and Denmark.

Randdy Ferreira works with people who have experienced traumatic events, including emergency and rescue operatives (e.g. first responders, firemen, police officers).

He has been part of national and international humanitarian operations and/or missions, such as the Forest Fires in the Central Region of Portugal - 2017 or Cyclone Idai in Mozambique - 2019.

He is a United Nations External Mental Health Professional and member of the EU Centre of Expertise for Victims of Terrorism (EUCVT), as well as a regular collaborator with other organisations working with victims and survivors of trauma (e.g. Portuguese Association for Victim Support - APAV, Jesuit Refugee Service - JRS PORTUGAL or Hostage International - HI).

 

Speaker: Sofia Ribeiro

Sofia Ribeiro is the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Officer for the International Federation of the Red Cross - IFRC, in Geneva. In her role, she provides support to advance on MHPSS service provision within the IFRC and the 192 membership National Societies across the world.

For the last 7 years she has been working in the humanitarian sector, mostly in international missions, including in South Sudan, Guinea-Bissau and Palestine. She supported the implementation and management of MHPSS programs in diverse domains, including response to SGBV, lay counseling, short-term therapy with victims of conflict, group interventions with children and adults, among others.

She has started her career in her home country, Portugal, where, among others, she has collaborated with the Portuguese Order of Psychologists, both in their employability programs and as a trainer for a national program to train psychologists to respond in critical events and large-scale emergencies.

She is a clinical psychologist, with advanced studies in different fields of mental health, including neuropsychology, psychotraumatology, mental health policy and services, and occupational health psychology.

 

Speaker: Ana Marques

Ana Marques has been working with Médicos sem Fronteiras (Doctors without borders) since 2015. After several humanitarian projects - Iraq, Jordan and Greece - managing mental health programmes on the ground or the general technical coordination of the projects in the countries, she took on the role of technical support for MSF's mental health programmes for the Middle East region.

She currently works as a global technical reference for mental health, providing technical and strategic consultancy to MSF teams, as well as defining protocols and quality standards for MSF's mental health programmes.

 

Speaker: João Antunes

Versatile humanitarian professional with extensive experience in managing emergency project coordination in the field, with a strong track record of training and capacity building of national and international staff and experience in working with different interlocutors in Europe and Africa.

Working with Médicos sem Fronteiras (Doctors without borders) since 2005, in recent years as emergency coordinator in different humanitarian contexts and in missions such as the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, the yellow fever epidemic in Angola, refugees in Rwanda and Sudan, and violence and internally displaced people in Nigeria by the Boko Haram group.

 

 

 

 

 

1st of April

 

Roundtable: The power of a good political policy in education

Speaker: Catarina Ferreira

Born in Porto, Portugal, Catarina Ferreira is Marketing and Communications Manager at the NGO Teach For Portugal, part of the international network Teach For All, which aims to build a fair education for all, serving students from underprivileged communities through developing collective leadership and transforming the education system to end education inequality.

For 2 years she worked at a Portuguese school that serves one of the most underprivileged communities of the country, as Teach For Portugal Mentor. 

Catarina graduated in Communication, and is now studying Psychology to better understand how psychology can further influence education policies.

 

 

Roundtable: Young People and 2030 Agenda

 

Speaker: Rita Saias

Rita is 29 years old and she has a degree in Political Science from ISCSP. At the moment, she is completing her Master's in Leadership, Governance and Democracy Studies at Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Throughout her career, she has worked in various contexts in the area of youth, from international volunteering in Mozambique to working for an NGO in São Tomé, where she was also a consultant for UNICEF. 

Rita was part of the Executive Secretariat of the World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth and of the Lisbon+21 Youth Forum.

Also, she was the President of the National Youth Council and Rita is currently a Consultant to the President of the Portuguese Republic for Youth, Intergenerational Dialogue and Active Ageing and co-author of the radio show Lei da Paridade, on TSF.

 

Speaker: João Albuquerque

João Albuquerque has a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and International Relations and a Master's Degree in History, Defense and International Relations.

He is currently Vice-Chair of the Delegation for relations with Brazil and Member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, the Committee on Fisheries and the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. He is also substitute member of the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, the Committee on Culture and Education, the Committee on Petitions, the Delegation for relations with Mercosur and the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly.

Between 2017 and 2019, he chaired the Young European Socialists and, between November 2019 and September 2022, was assistant to the Vice-President of the European Parliament.

For two years, he was advisor to the Minister of Home Affairs of Portugal between November 2017 and November 2019, and held political advisory roles at the parish council of Lumiar, in Lisbon, in the areas of Public Policies, Urban Planning and Communication.

He worked as a trainee at the European Parliament and was S&D Group Political Advisor for the Global Progressive Forum, involved in the organisation of several high-level conferences in Brussels, Grenada, Istanbul and Belgrade.

He has also worked as a consultant for Eupportunity, a Portuguese consultancy company based in Brussels.

After the Master thesis in History, Defense and International Relations, he worked on the International Relations Office of the University of Algarve and as Communication officer at the Galp Energia Foundation, on the area of Social Affairs and Corporate Social Responsibility.

 

Moderator: António Gomes

António Gomes is a Master in Clinical and Health Psychology by the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto (FPCEUP).

His academic path was marked by a strong associative involvement, locally, in his faculty (AEFPCEUP) and nationally, in ANEP (EFPSA'S MO).

He was part of the organisation of several scientific and training events in AEFPCEUP, but also in ANEP, the Association which he eventually became President.

He is currently in his first professional year as a Clinical Psychologist in the Counselling Psychology Service of FPCEUP.

 

 

Roundtable: “Boosting the level of priority of Mental Health in the workplace”.

Speaker: Pedro Gomes

Pedro Gomes is an academic economist at Birkbeck, University of London.

Previously, he spent seven years as Assistant Professor at the University Carlos III de Madrid, was a Visiting Professor at the University of Essex and held positions at the European Central Bank and the Bank of England.

Pedro studied for his BSc in Economics in his hometown of Lisbon, and received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 2010. A leading researcher on public sector employment, he has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and two chapters in books. His work has won awards and is widely cited.

Pedro values partnerships with policy institutions and has presented his work at the national banks of Portugal, Spain, France and England, as well as at the World Bank, European Central Bank and the OECD.

In 2021 he published his first book "Friday Is the New Saturday".

 

Speaker: Rita Maçorano

Rita Maçorano is a Biomedical Engineer, with a specialisation in the field of Clinical Engineering and Medical Instrumentation, namely in the digital transformation of this field.

She is the co-founder and CEO of NEVARO, a spin-off company of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, which develops digital health solutions, based on evidence and gamification, for mental health management and therapy.

She was the co-author of scientific publications, from articles to conference posters, in the area of emotional recognition through physiological and behavioural patterns, as well as therapeutic approaches for anxiety disorders.

 

 

 

 

Roundtable: A glimpse into the future - How can Psychology impact A.I. and Cyberpsychology

Speaker: Miguel Oliveira

Miguel Oliveira is a Psychologist, with a specialisation in Educational Psychology and Work, Social and Organisational Psychology.

He is also a member of the National Board (Direcção Nacional) of the Portuguese Psychological Association (OPP), the Coordinator of the OPP's Cybersecurity Team and Coordinator of the OPP's Virtual Reality Ethical Decision Making Training Application.

As well as a PhD student in Health Data Science at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto.