Maria Potes Barbas was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1965. Background Knowledge_PHD Degree in Communication and Education Multimedia at The Open University (Uab), Pós-Doctorate by Universidade de Aveiro (UA) and an Aggregation in Education with a speciality in eLearning by the UAb. Full Professor (Communication and Education Multimedia) at ESE-IPS and an Invited Associate Professor at the Universidade Aberta (Open University_UAb). Also, she is the Head of the Projects and Internationalization, President of the Scientific Board at the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém (Portugal). Experience_FULL Professor of the curricular units of Project, Seminary Digital Literacy and Interactive Argument at the School of Higher Education in Santarém; experience in developing tools and projects for knowledge management on innovation technologies, capitalization and dissemination strategies, transnationalisation exchange and learning activities, design events, support policymakers and policy delivery). Expertise_Networking, ICT professional skills, INCLUSION; elearning; Ethics issues, IoT; Safety. Nominated by FCT in Portugal to become an “e-Skills for Jobs ambassador” in Portugal, an EU initiative based on a multi-stakeholder partnership that facilitates collaboration among business and education providers, public and private actors, through actions that attract young people and promote employment. The transnational research she has carried out addresses, the concept of communication, media, digital and virtual environments, and she has collaborated at the Center for Social Innovation (Cyprus), and at the Research Group Images, Words and Ideas (GIPI) at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Alcala (Spain) and collaborated at the Centro di Ricerca della Sapienza per la tutela della Persona del Minore (University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy). In Portugal she is a member of the CIAC_UAB Center, and Coordinator of the Digital Literacy and Social Inclusion Pole IPS_CIAC. In Brasil, she collaborated in The Internacional Research Center GPELET - Grupo de Pesquisas em Estudos da Linguagem, Libras, Educação Especial e a Distância e Tecnologias. Universidade Federal de Uberlândia – UFU. She has also been proactive in recent years in connecting companies through the program "Grand Coalition for Jobs". She received the awards: "Innovation" at Poliempreende 2019, she holds the 1st Action INCoDe.2030 seal and the "School of Affection Movement, School of Success", under the course of "Digital Literacy for the Labor Market".