The Consortium
CeiED at Lusófona University
Cooperativa de Formação e Animação Cultural CRL (COFAC) is the organisation legally responsible for Universidade Lusófona (ULusófona), which is the largest non-profit university in Portugal. The Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Education and Development (CeiED) is ULusófona’s R&D Unit involved in EDU-LAB. CeiED is the leading R&D unit in the fields of Education, Training, and Sociomuseology within the Lusófona Group. ULusófona and CeiED lead WP4. Dr. Filomena Parada is an expert on career development and youth transitions to work and adulthood. She is a mixed-methods researcher with a lot of experience in qualitative research. Other research team members are Dr. Filipa Lourenço, the science manager of CeiED, has extensive experience in the management of projects funded by both European and national programs. She is also an expert in education and intercultural studies for equity, inclusion, and reducing inequalities, as well as human development. Prof. Ana Vale is an expert in education, qualitative educational research, public education policies, and teaching and learning methodologies in higher education. Dr. Lucimar Dantas is an expert on learning and teaching in school contexts. Prof. João Filipe Matos is an expert on research methodologies in education and education and training with emerging digital technologies. Dr. André Freitas is an expert on school education, research methodologies, and teacher professionalism and professional development.
Dr. Filomena Parada
Team Leader
Filomena Parada is an Auxiliary Researcher at ULusófona, CeiED. She is a member of the Executive Council of the EARA, the European Association for the Research on Adolescence and an Editorial Advisory Board member of the Journal of Vocational Behavior. She has extensive research experience, nationally and internationally, on the EDU-LAB research topics and approaches. Her scholarship bridges research, practice and policy, and relies on an integrative, dynamic, and process-oriented approach focusing on the understanding of the processes through which individuals-in-context learn, think, feel, act, and interact in everyday life and across time. Her main research interests include youth transitions to work and adulthood, positive youth development, and the development of sustainable careers, as well as career counselling and development.